{"id":742746,"date":"2026-02-04T23:09:25","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T23:09:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/742746\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T23:09:25","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T23:09:25","slug":"horsforth-bar-gets-licence-with-reduced-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/742746\/","title":{"rendered":"Horsforth bar gets licence with reduced hours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"has-text-align-right\"><strong>By Don Mort<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/lnp\/ldrs\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">local democracy reporter<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new cafe and bar has been granted an alcohol licence after agreeing to reduced serving hours.<\/p>\n<p>Bee Futures Ltd faced objections to its application to serve drinks at Hive, its planned venue in the former Nawaab Khan restaurant on New Road Side in Horsforth.<\/p>\n<p>People living nearby feared noise and anti-social behaviour if the premises was allowed midnight last orders at weekends and 11pm on weekdays.<\/p>\n<p>Leeds City Council granted a premises licence after the hours were reduced to 10pm, Sunday-Wednesday and 11pm Thursday to Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Chris Rees-Gay, representing the venue, told councillors: \u201cWe are part of the community. We have listened and reduced our hours accordingly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Eleven letters of objection were received by the council, along with ten comments in support of the licence application.<\/p>\n<p>Miriam Browne, who lives nearby, said noise from the bar would disturb\u00a0children.<\/p>\n<p>She told the licensing sub-committee: \u201cThey have bedrooms that face onto the premises. It absolutely will cause increased noise. It will cause increased disturbance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are families and we have to get up and go to work every day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Horsforth Labour councillor Emmie Bromley also spoke in support of nearby householders and called for a further reduction of serving hours.<\/p>\n<p>She said: \u201cI would ideally like to see that even more restricted.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Councillors granted the premises licence, subject to conditions including the reduced hours and no loud music.<\/p>\n<p>Planning application<\/p>\n<p>As<a href=\"https:\/\/westleedsdispatch.com\/horsforth-new-cafe-and-bar-plans-submitted-on-new-road-side\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0reported by\u00a0WLD\u00a0<\/a>in December, a separate planning application for a change of use of the venue, has also been submitted to the council for consideration.<\/p>\n<p>A planning statement said Hive would operate as a cafe during the day and a bar in the afternoon and evening. The applicant has secured a five-year lease on the building and was planning to invest \u00a3140,000.<\/p>\n<p>The consultation period for the plans ended on Monday and council planning officers are currently considering the applications. The change of use plans <a href=\"https:\/\/publicaccess.leeds.gov.uk\/online-applications\/applicationDetails.do?keyVal=T5KI7WJBH1100&amp;activeTab=summary\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">can be viewed here<\/a>. Plans for new signs\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/publicaccess.leeds.gov.uk\/online-applications\/applicationDetails.do?keyVal=T5KI7XJBH1200&amp;activeTab=summary\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">can be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Don Mort, local democracy reporter A new cafe and bar has been granted an alcohol licence after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":612680,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[8814],"tags":[748,219752,393,4884,209390,1860,219753,215230,16,15],"class_list":["post-742746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-leeds","tag-britain","tag-cllr-emmie-bromley","tag-england","tag-great-britain","tag-horsforth","tag-leeds","tag-licensing-committee","tag-new-road-side","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116014885429461146","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742746","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=742746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/612680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=742746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=742746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=742746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}