The Illegal Music Died - What about the local residents then
All of you who support the bars breaking the law ought to walk past them at 1 am and again at 2 am, the noise from the Hogs Head along with people screaming and shouting etc. is horrendous, just give a little thought to the local residents who have lived there long before the bars where built, remember in the summer these bars are open until 3 am and later. No wonder the locals who live around the Consum area complained. The bar owners could have kept the noise inside their premises and kept the volume down, instead they put two fingers up to the local residents.
I have read on this forum that the Bar owners have done their best regards noise levels, I wonder how many of them have had the courtesy to ask the residents living locally if the noise they generate causes them a problem, I know that not one of them have had the decency to walk around and ask any of my neighbours or myself.
All of this may have been avoided had the bars bothered to fit noise limiters that cut off the power after the permitted decibels, however the bars did as they pleased as they knew the levels of noise was way above the permitted level in a residential area.
It is not as though the bar owners have had the issue of licences and soundproofing sprung on them, some Six or Seven years ago all the Bar owner were called to a meeting with the lord mayor and the rules and regulations for having music was laid out to them regards soundproofing and then again this year the council re-clarified the law, so they do not have an excuse.
It is a shame that a few bars around the Consum area have spoilt it for everyone, however saying that the last three night of peace and quiet along with a good night’s sleep have reminded me of what it use to be like to live in Spain when our family invested in our property many years back.
Bar owners are claiming it costs a lot of money to be legal, so what, abiding by the law can cost money, my son pays nearly €1800 per year just to insure his car and make it legal to drive.
The Consum bars should either abide by the law or else relocate to an area that does not impact on the quality of life of the residents.
So here is one of the Guilty Moaners. It is a shame that you never get your facts quite correct. The bar that has a late license fully legal is Poppies. It is the one with the correct paper work that is the real culprit. Yet you keep on going after all the others that do close down at a reasonable time at night. TUT TUT You are a menace in disguise.
Douglas there are two bars fully legal Poppies & chef o¨neils near enough to be next door to each other. therefore Joe should get his fact right
Got to agree with Douglas,You picked the wrong Bar,Joe,So I gather the rest of your comment is suspect.
As for the time of the noise I dont think you will find the ordinary bars having live music,at that time,it may well be that customers in the ordinary bars leave them soon after Midnight and either go home or visit the two places in the consum area that have a late license,it may be some make a noise,after leaving these two places but why not blame the customers themselves if they cannot behave themselves after a few drinks.The cost of these late night bars is prohibitive and I gather most of the profit stay in the councils coffers ,so with this money why dont they give a police presence when these two places close.
earlier this summer a police presence was put in the consume area,the only incidence I believe was of half a dozen youths being noisy one night.
Pity joe cannot get the facts right I frequent the hogs head and it always closes its doors at an appropriate time also it has the appropriate licences you claim they do not. If you don't like it joe you can always move. All the bars are trying to do is make living, and people like you do not make it easy shame on you
@ Joe, sounds like you are one of people who have complained. You carry on making complaints about the bars near comsum area, and I take you will be pleased when all the bars close, supermarket etc. I hope you can live with yourself, the knock on affect this will have will be trebble with unemployment which in Spain is very high, therefore going back to your own country or sell up & move into a field