Ensuring pub noise is kept down

Published: 2 September, 2010

• MANY pubs have closed in our part of Kentish Town – the Prince of Wales being the latest.

Flats will replace it, so it is rumoured.

At one time small pubs were the social centre of their communities, within walking distance of customers’ homes.

Of those that remain, some apply for a live music licence and that can have an adverse effect on their neighbours (Pub bids for an upstairs licence, August 26).

That is why there is opposition to the licence being given to the Lord Stanley in Camden Park Road.

What is feared is the leakage of noise from the greatly amplified sound systems used by performers and the disturbance caused into the early hours by customers.

People are entitled in law to “the quiet enjoyment of their home” as the adage states.

Surely it should be a basic condition for the grant of a licence that the premises be adequately sound-proofed?

Near here the Roundhouse hosts concerts etcetera attracting hundreds and not a sound is heard outside it.

SKIP MURPHY
Prince of Wales Road, NW1