A PUB in Helmshore will receive a licensing review later this month after noise complaints from neighbours.

Environmental Health first received complaints about The Station Hotel in Helmshore Road in May 2013, and in September last year the department deemed the noise to be a ‘statutory nuisance’, or detrimental to residents’ health or enjoyment of their home.

In February a noise limiter was placed within the pub to combat the issue, but a subsequent visit from a council health officer in July found the noise could still be heard in residents’ properties.

In a council report environmental health officers at Rossendale Council said an out of hours noise service officer visited between 11.45pm and midnight on Friday, July 11 and reported that with open windows the band was very loud and would prevent neighbours sleeping.

On the following Saturday, July 19, another officer visited the residents’ homes between 10.20pm and 11.55pm and reported the level of noise heard inside the properties would constitute a statutory nuisance.

The Environment Agency has now called for a review of the pub’s licence to prevent public nuisance, as a consequence of ‘continued breaches of the abatement notice and despite works and actions being agreed and still ongoing to provide a long term solution’.

In the report, Andrea Guthrie, a senior environmental health officer, said: “As a consequence of the continued breaches of the abatement notice and despite works and actions being agreed and still ongoing to provide a long-term solution, I feel that applying for a review of the licence is now required to prevent public nuisance.”

But publican Nicola Barcroft is trying to rally regulars to against the crackdown.

She has urged regulars to write to the borough’s licensing committee, via her Facebook site, as part of a ‘Save Our Station’ campaign.

One supporter, Nicola Davies, said: “Why do people buy house near a pub? There’s going to be music.”