ANGRY villagers have tried to put the dampers on a bonfire family fun day at a Warrington pub.

A group of Houghton Green residents demanded the council refuse to grant an outdoor licence from noon to 5.30pm for the event tomorrow, Saturday, at the Plough Inn on Mill Lane.

The furious residents, who submitted a petition against the issuing of the licence, claim the last time the pub used a PA system for such an event, the noise level was "unbearable".

Alan Dickinson, who lives next to the pub, said: "It is totally unacceptable that we have to suffer the same noise levels as we had to last time.

"When I was sat in my house last time, the sound level was so great, it was unbearable."

Warrington North MP, Doug Hoyle, also objected in writing to the granting of the licence.

But John Lennox, the pub's manager, has offered the residents the opportunity to set the sound levels themselves.

"All we are trying to do is to put a little back into the village community," he said. "I have actually invited Mr Dickinson to come around and set the sound level himself this time.

"I am certainly not going to fall out with the residents over something like this and it seems to me that one solution would be for the volume to be set by an environmental health officer."

At a meeting of the borough council's licensing committee, it was agreed to issue the licence on the condition that sound levels are not altered from those set by an environmental health officer.

Recording equipment will also be installed in nearby houses to monitor the level of sound from the PA system.

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