The Eagle and Child pub in Ramsbottom has secured permission to retain its outdoor bar, a key addition made during the Covid pandemic. However, the pub must still remove a large, unauthorized tepee used for weddings and events due to noise and traffic concerns raised by residents.
A popular gastro pub has won a planning battle to keep its outside bar – but will still have to pull down an ‘unauthorised and unlawful’ giant tepee it uses to host weddings and other celebrations. A planning committee meeting of Bury council heard the Eagle and Child – on Whalley Road, Ramsbottom – built several outside structures without permission during the Covid pandemic, which have been in operation ever since.
The tepee was the subject of a rejected planning application last year which was turned down on the basis of the generation of traffic and noise. The timber frame and UPVC tepee had capacity for up to 72 people and was described by owners Daniel Thwaites as an ‘essential part of the business’ before being told to tear it down last year. This week, a retrospective planning application sought the retention of an external bar where customers are served drinks in the beer garden. The structure also houses a pizza oven with Thwaites saying that feature ‘has been hugely successful’. Permission was also sought for a covered pergola and a toilet block. Helen Binns addressed the meeting on behalf of the pub’s operators, Daniel Thwaites. She said: “The pub sector is really struggling and pubs are closing on a daily basis due to not being financially viable. This is particularly the case for smaller premises like the Eagle and Child. “In order to survive we’ve had to evolve and diversify. If pubs are unable to do this the simple fact is we risk losing them forever. “The improvements contained in this planning application are modest in scale but being substantial benefits to the pub.” The planning committee heard from head of development at the council, David Marno. He said: “The tepee is being used as a venue in its own right. Our issue is with that structure and we are taking enforcement action against it. At the moment the tepee’s still there , it’s unauthorised and it’s unlawful so we’re taking action to seek its removal. “At the moment the noise from the site is indivisible. The point we’re making that removing the tepee will get rid of its noise and will significantly bring down the noise the site generates as a whole.” Many of the complaints about the planning application relate to parking at the pub, which was crowned UK ‘Pub of the Year’ in 2017 and was also named best food pub in the Manchester Food and Drinks Awards two years earlier. It has space for just 11 cars meaning many customers leave their vehicles on Peel Brow and Cheshire Court. Regarding noise complaints, the pub said it has operated a 10pm limit on the beer garden of its own volition in recent months. The beer garden bar application received 22 objections. One objector said: “Losing the tepee would not solve problems. The external bar is still a noise nuisance, with loud music and patrons becoming louder as the day and evening progresses.” There were 39 letters of support sent to the council. One said: “It is a good local venue and community hub. The premises are well managed with no loud music.” The committee voted by a majority to approve the plans for the external bar
PLANNING PERMISSION OUTDOOR BAR EAGLE AND CHILD RAMSBOTTOM TEPEE NOISE COMPLAINTS PUB SECTOR COVID-19 PANDEMIC
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