{"id":682478,"date":"2026-01-08T15:24:34","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T15:24:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/682478\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T15:24:34","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T15:24:34","slug":"much-loved-pub-to-open-outside-bar-with-live-music-as-part-of-huge-refurb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/682478\/","title":{"rendered":"Much loved pub to open outside bar with live music as part of huge refurb"},"content":{"rendered":"

Baileys Court Inn in Stoke Gifford underwent a \u00a3400k revamp<\/p>\n

11:59, 08 Jan 2026Updated 11:59, 08 Jan 2026<\/p>\n

\"GVBaileys Court Inn in Stoke Gifford<\/p>\n

A much-loved Bristol pub has won the right to install an external bar<\/a> and play films and live music outside as part of a major \u00a3396,000 refurbishment.<\/p>\n

But a solicitor for Baileys Court Inn in Stoke Gifford insisted it would remain firmly rooted in the community and would not simply be a sports bar despite a transformation into a \u2018Grandstand\u2019 venue<\/a> with huge new screens and sound systems to give fans a \u2018stadium experience\u2019.<\/p>\n

Bradley Stoke<\/a> Town Council objected to pub operator Marston\u2019s application to vary its premises licence conditions<\/a>.<\/p>\n

However, it was granted by South Gloucestershire<\/a> Council licensing sub-committee on Wednesday, January 7.<\/p>\n

Solicitor Michelle Hazlewood, representing the pub, branded the objections as \u201cspeculation, fear, and unsubstantiated\u201d.<\/p>\n

She told the hearing: \u201cPeople have said this is going to be a sports bar.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is not going to be purely a sports bar, it\u2019s going to remain community premises and continue to have a very strong sports offer but it will also have a food offer which is going to be there, day in, day out.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis remains very much at the heart of the community and somewhere families want to go.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is no objection against the internal works.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt looks lovely, it\u2019s massively improved, externally it looks splendid, therefore it improves the amenity of the area.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was what was needed for this site.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe installation of the best kitchen, the best audio system, means they can do what they were doing with even more confidence and the community can have that confidence that externally they can manage that noise.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bradley Stoke Town Council objected on the broad grounds that the changes would be \u2018detrimental to public health and the wellbeing of local residents\u2019 and could increase antisocial behaviour, noise and littering.<\/p>\n

But town council deputy clerk Philip Francis-Barber could not provide specific examples because the objections were agreed at a previous meeting by local parish councillors who were not at the hearing to expand on their concerns.<\/p>\n

Licensing sub-committee chairman Cllr Ron Hardie (Labour<\/a>, Emersons Green) said: \u201cWe\u2019ve got the objections from the town council, unfortunately not particularly substantiated with examples or reasons why they\u2019ve objected, which is a bit of a concern.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt almost seems that they\u2019ve said \u2018we\u2019ll object to that and see what happens\u2019.<\/p>\n

\u201cOn something like this the sub-committee would expect to see that a complaint about noise was substantiated by an example.\u201d<\/p>\n

Licensing conditions were agreed in advance with the police and environmental health.<\/p>\n

The pub reopened last month following the revamp.<\/p>\n

It already had permission to play films and live music indoors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Baileys Court Inn in Stoke Gifford underwent a \u00a3400k revamp 11:59, 08 Jan 2026Updated 11:59, 08 Jan 2026…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":682479,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8818],"tags":[15721,381,748,393,4884,528,285,9028,10299,10302,42349,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-682478","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bristol","8":"tag-bradley-stoke","9":"tag-bristol","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-labour-party","14":"tag-politics","15":"tag-pubs-and-bars-in-bristol","16":"tag-south-gloucestershire","17":"tag-south-gloucestershire-council","18":"tag-stoke-gifford","19":"tag-uk","20":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115860174520285332","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=682478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/682479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=682478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=682478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=682478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}