Award-winning pub’s 32ft teepee is making our lives a nightmare – it’s like living at a festival… parking is mayhem

RESIDENTS surviving adjacent to an award-winning pub accidental a 32ft tepee is making their lives a “nightmare” arsenic it’s similar surviving adjacent a festival.

The Eagle and Child, successful Ramsbottom, Bury, Greater Manchester, erected the operation successful its brew plot during the pandemic.

The teepee seats up to 72 radical and has been described by the pub's owners, Daniel Thwaites, arsenic an “essential portion of the business”.

It is utilized to big events including weddings, christenings and day parties.

However, the pub, which was crowned UK ‘Pub of the Year’ successful 2017, has present been ordered to region the teepee and an outdoor barroom pursuing complaints from neighbours.

Aimee Burgess, who lives other the pub successful Whalley Road, claims the “constant noise” made by radical attending events astatine the teepee was “like having a festival extracurricular the house”.

On 1 occasion, she claimed she was awoken by revellers performing karaoke extracurricular the pub astatine 1am.

"It's ridiculous," she said. "It's similar having a festival extracurricular the location with the magnitude of music, radical wooing and cheering, and bottles smashing. It's constant."

When the teepee was archetypal built, Ms Burgess said it was “absolutely fine”.

But, arsenic much events began to beryllium held astatine the pub, the problems began.

"It's lone been atrocious since they started holding weddings and parties successful the extracurricular tent," she said.

"At first, determination was an lawsuit each weekend. Now there's an lawsuit during the week and each Friday, Saturday and Sunday night."

A shortage of parking spaces astatine the pub means that customers often extremity up parking their cars connected surrounding roads, Ms Burgess claimed.

"It's mayhem successful presumption of parking," she explained. "On a weekend, we person to beryllium backmost by fractional six if we privation to parkland anyplace adjacent to our house.

"There person been times erstwhile we person had to parkland a 5 oregon 10 infinitesimal locomotion down the road."

Ms Burgess said she had contacted the assembly to research the anticipation of a residential parking strategy being introduced.

"The pub are trying to marque everyone blessed and I bash consciousness for them, but they needed to beryllium doing much earlier it got to this point," she said.

"The teepee itself is fine, it's conscionable not a pub that was made for events. It was large arsenic a gastropub.

"The brew plot is beauteous and has stunning views but it's not the spot for an outdoor venue for weddings, birthdays and barroom mitzvahs."

PLANNING APPLICATION REJECTED

Earlier this month, Bury Council rejected a retrospective readying exertion for imperishable retention of a circular tented ‘teepee’, extracurricular bar, pergola and toilet block.

It came aft neighbours raised objections astir issues including sound and discarded being thrown into rear gardens from the brew garden.

Planners astatine Bury Council said the exertion was refused chiefly connected sound and postulation issues, positive plan and appearance.

A readying study recovered that the plans “would person a superior and detrimental interaction connected ocular and residential amenity”.

It besides expressed concerns astir connected tract parking arsenic the pub lone has 11 spaces.

One antheral who lives successful adjacent Cheshire Court said helium was among those who objected to the readying application.

"I've lived successful this location for the champion portion of 28 years and it's lone successful the past 3 I've had to complain," said the man, who asked not to beryllium named.

"It's a quiescent residential area. Since they person introduced that, it's caused a batch of issues for the residents.

“Every Friday, Saturday and Sunday, we are having different people's parties inflicted connected us.

"The euphony starts astatine astir 1 successful the day and the sound goes up arsenic much and much radical arrive.

“You get singalongs and radical banging connected the table. There are times erstwhile I tin consciousness the baselines successful my windows.

"They are having a bully clip but putting a structure slap bang successful the mediate of a residential country has been a nightmare for the past 3 years.

“It would beryllium bully if the venue could incorporate that wrong walls alternatively than a teepee."

'DOUBLE PARKING'

As good arsenic “severe noise” precocious astatine night, helium said different contented was customers “double parking” connected Cheshire Court.

On occasions, helium says car person been parked connected the thoroughfare for respective days aft an event.

"The surrounding country is being utilized arsenic an overspill car parkland for the pub," helium said. "If they person got a batch of customers past determination is not a abstraction anyplace on this street.

“Sometimes determination are cars parked each the mode down to the motorway bridge."

He said items person besides been thrown implicit neighbours' fences, including stones, solid bottles and vape refills.

"We can't bash thing without experiencing the activities going astatine the pub," helium explained. "I don't cognize what the solution is abbreviated of it being enactment backmost to what it was.

"Businesses are having a hard clip but you shouldn't beryllium capable to tally a business if it's massively detrimental to section residents.

“If they had done this and they were determination successful the mediate of a tract and weren't disturbing anybody past bully luck.

"To present it to this country has caused specified a nuisance for the past 3 years.

“This statement that the pub was determination archetypal truthful they get carte blanche is nonsense."

Jon Walker moved into his location successful Peel Brow successful October 2021.

He accused the pub of being “disengaged” with residents, arsenic helium said: "It doesn't consciousness similar a section pub. It feels similar an events space.

"A batch of the clientele are not from the area. They thrust to the pub and parkland connected the street.

“When there's an event, parking is chaos circular here.

“It p***** radical off.

"It would beryllium bully if the pub was much engaged with the section assemblage and came and chatted to us.

“It's unusual that you would get an outdoor events abstraction successful the mediate of a residential area."

Ramsbottom councillor Gareth Staples-Jones has since called for compromise aft being “very disappointed” by the decision.

He said: “As ward councillors, we were not made alert of this decision.

“If residents person concerns oregon issues relating to the teepee, it would person been adjuvant to person known anterior oregon astatine the clip of the contented arising truthful ward councillors oregon assembly officers could attack the brewery and pub to find a mediate crushed and a mode to resolve.

“Waiting until a retrospective readying exertion to hammer successful nails feels wrong.

“I volition beryllium moving with our enforcement squad to guarantee we’re doing our champion to beforehand places similar Eagle & Child whilst besides listening to residents’ concerns.

“Rammy is an charismatic destination to live, eat, unbend and beryllium portion of a fantastic assemblage – we request to turn that by moving with businesses and the community.”

Earlier this week a spokesperson for Daniel Thwaites said that pursuing the determination “we are presently reviewing our options and are aiming to conscionable with Bury’s readying squad to find a solution that works for each parties”.

“Rammy is an charismatic destination to live, eat, unbend and beryllium portion of a fantastic assemblage – we request to turn that by moving with businesses and the community.”

Previously, a spokesperson for Daniel Thwaites said: “The teepee was installed post-Covid arsenic portion of The Eagle and Child’s betterment program and has since been precise good received by customers and section assemblage groups.

"Following a caller readying decision, we are presently reviewing our options and are aiming to conscionable with Bury’s readying squad to find a solution that works for each parties.”

The Sun Online has approached the pub and Daniel Thwaites for further comment.