Appendix C
REP A
EG CON ENDS 18.11.2025 VALID PPN
From: REDACTED
Sent: 18 November 2025 23:36
To: EHL Licensing <ehl.licensing@brighton-hove.gov.uk>
Subject: Representation licensing of 120 St George’s Road
Good morning,
My name is REDACTED, resident at REDACTED
I’d like object to the licensing of 120 St George’s Road BN2 1EA for the sale of alcohol on or off premises.
I live REDACTED in consideration and I am relentlessly bombarded by constant noise from REDACTED during the day and from REDACTED in the afternoon and evening. The only area of the house where I can barely escape the constant noise is my bedroom which faces the back of the house. Coincidentally, my bedroom REDACTED and I am worried that, in case the licensing went ahead, I would be surrounded on every side by drunk people shouting late into the evening.
This area has already an issue with drunken disorder that frequently requires the police to intervene right outside of REDACTED. I honestly believe that another premise selling alcohol would only exacerbate this issue causing more public nuisance and rendering the area less safe.
Thank you for your consideration.
Kind regards,
REDACTED
REP B
EG CON ENDS 19.11.2025 VALID PPN
From: REDACTED
Sent: 19 November 2025 13:29
To: EHL Licensing <EHL.licensing@brighton-hove.gov.uk>
Subject: 120 st George street
Good Afternoon,
I saw a notice on the window of 120 St George street with a planned proposal to license for Hall and Wise, and I'm writing to submit my objection.
I live at REDACTED, my flat is on the REDACTED. I live REDACTED, and REDACTED. This means that my partner and I are already plagued by noise, and neither venue REDACTED show any concern for noise levels or regard for the comfort of local residents, despite us repeatedly making them aware.
REDACTED makes noise from early in the morning until 4pm every day (and until around 1am when they host private events, usually hosting obnoxious guests for hen do's or birthday parties- we can hear every word, screech and scream). They play loud music (even after customers have left and while staff are closing down) and slam the doors which rattles our windows. They have a ceiling fan directly below us which creates a constant 'whomp whomp whomp' sound, and they often forget to turn the fan off which means the sound continues until they open the next day. Some evenings, a member of staff (I assume) stays past closing time to create online video content, which means the same snippet of a song is played loudly on repeat, and in the summer, staff from REDACTED will set up a table on the pavement next to the closed post office and sit there drinking beers, their conversations getting louder and louder as they get drunker.
After REDACTED shuts, unless they host a private event, we have about an hour of relative peace before the REDACTED takes over their apparent duty to deafen local residents, (this is of course unless their clientele have chosen to get drunk earlier than expected in the afternoon, in which case there is no break from noise). During warmer weather (even into late October) The REDACTED opens up all it's windows (which are floor to ceiling/ the entire height of the ground floor), and whatever the weather, their front door is always open so sound travels limitlessly onto the street and into our home. Every week they have a pub quiz and we can hear every word of someone bellowing down a microphone. They play sports on the TV closest to the window which faces us, attracting drunk sports fans to scream at the TV. When they host a karaoke night or have a talent-poor band/singer performing, we are forced to leave our home for the evening. Staff don't show any concern for rowdy drunk customers standing outside screaming, shouting and singing, I've witnessed staff walking past and ignoring their loud drunken patrons to smash glass bottles in the bin directly opposite our flat. We have witnessed residents further away than we are, lean out of their window and yell "shut the f*** up" at REDACTED. Multiple times, we've seen the police turn up due to behaviour/activity from REDACTED clientele.
On several occasions, either myself or my partner has had to go to either venue and beg them to turn down the music or do something about the noise, but our requests fall on deaf ears. REDACTED creates drilling and hammering noise, but so far is infrequent enough and compared to the noise created by REDACTED and REDACTED, and is the least of our noise related problems. Adding in a fourth noisy venue where alcohol will be permitted will cause us undue suffering. I went inside 120 St George street when it was Arcobaleno, I know it is a large venue with an outdoor space. This outdoor space is very close REDACTED, and the bedroom is the sole room in our house where we can escape the noise from REDACTED (but sadly, not REDACTED whenever they choose to host a private event in the evening). I know that if 120 St George is granted an off/on license, their guests will be loud, and in summer, be loud in the garden which we will of course be able to hear from our bedroom. Our next door neighbours who are even closer to 120 St George St and may even be directly above it, have a new baby, and noise from 120 George St is likely to disrupt that baby and make it cry more, (sometimes we can hear the baby crying- I hope it's obvious that we are not complaining about this, but we do not want anything to happen which would likely make the baby cry more, such as drunk customers shouting and screaming underneath where the baby lives).
At some point early next year, I'm due to have cardiac surgery and will have a long recovery time. I would like to be able to sleep during this recovery. If a license is granted, we will lose the only room in our flat where we can escape the noise pollution created by drunk customers. We are paying an extortionate amount on rent after we were unlawfully evicted and harassed from our ex-landlords, forcing us to move after just one year of residency. We have only been living at REDACTED since March, and the idea of being forced out (and paying for costly moving related expenses, again, as well as a likely increase in rent, again), within such a short amount of time, this time because of preventable noise pollution, is horrifying. I work full time and mostly from home due to my disability (I am recognised as disabled, receive PIP and work from home as a reasonable adjustment). I spend most of my working hours on the phone to clients and several times I've had to apologise and ask my clients to repeat themselves because of noise created from REDACTED or REDACTED, there's been times where my clients have had to ask the same of me as my voice has been drowned out by noise created from these venues. As I write this email, I can hear singing, REDACTED has slammed their doors 4 times in the space of 35 minutes, and two customers from REDACTED are currently engaged in an argument directly outside my living room window, which has caused a dog to start barking.
We began a noise complaint with the Council, but had to abandon this as my partner was in a bad car accident in Italy and fractured his back, and at the same time we were bringing a legal claim against our ex-landlords which took our focus. We will begin the noise complaint again, and due to this, I am able to forward you emails we've sent to REDACTED / REDACTED, as well as several recordings we have as proof of inappropriate noise levels- the clientele of these venues are inconsiderate, boisterous, and loud, often requiring the presence of the police, and I wouldn't expect the patrons of 120 St George street to be any different. Unless the owners of St George st show an apparently atypical regard for residents and noise levels, and are somehow able to prevent their patrons from causing such noise especially after they've consumed alcohol, we will suffer, lose our ability to sleep, and have nowhere in our home where we are not plagued by the drunken clamour of customers.
Please, for the sake of our sanity, do not grant a license to 120 st George Street. The noise pollution we experience at home is already intolerable and granting this license would mean we lose the only room, and the one where we sleep, where we are not deafened by noise.
Sincerely,
REDACTED