A Liverpool pub has been granted a licence for a beer garden to serve food outside until 9.30pm.
The council’s gambling and licensing sub-committee approved the proposals from The Edge at Joey Orr’s in a brief meeting earlier today.
The pub will now permanently be able to have six tables in its back beer garden, seating up to 36 people.
The original application had suggested that the pub wanted to also play live music but licence holder Paul Orr confirmed to the committee that there was no intention to do this and that part of the application was withdrawn.
Mr Orr said: “We do not want an extension in the back beer garden for singing or dancing.
“We only want it for food, it is only for eating and drinking.”
One objection to the application had been received by the sub-committee but a decision was made to grant the licence as applied for.
The objection had called the plan to hold up to 36 people in the beer garden “madness” on the basis of the noise and disorder the objector felt it could cause.
However, Mr Orr said the beer garden would be managed appropriately and that in more than a decade of holding the licence he had not received a police visit in relation to the pub’s own operations.
Merseyside Police and the council’s environmental health team had not submitted any objections to Mr Orr’s application, nor did any other bodies with links to licensing issues.
Anyone who wishes to appeal the decision must do so within 21 days.
