Alison Flett never imagined her live music venue would cause such conflict when it first opened in 2021.
This isn’t a case where people moved to an area that had a live music venue and then started complaining. This is an established neighbourhood and the music venue came to them. Then:
"When the club shuts down in the early hours — or late at night, rather — you’ve got the antisocial aspects of people slamming car doors, people shouting, people urinating in the street, people leaving bottles, cans, et cetera … "
He said it was taking a toll on himself and his neighbours.
“People wake up to mess in the morning … People can’t sleep — it stresses people out.”
I mean, fair enough. Some club opens up the street from me and every night arseholes are making a lot of noise at 2am, waking the kids up. Finally, we wake up to a trashed street - yeah, I reckon I’d complain to the council, also.
This is the key bit here:
This isn’t a case where people moved to an area that had a live music venue and then started complaining. This is an established neighbourhood and the music venue came to them. Then:
I mean, fair enough. Some club opens up the street from me and every night arseholes are making a lot of noise at 2am, waking the kids up. Finally, we wake up to a trashed street - yeah, I reckon I’d complain to the council, also.