The former owner of Angels Bar and Club in High Street, Worthing, has been ordered to pay more than £11,000 following complaints regarding noise disruption.
Worthing Borough Council’s environmental protection team first issued the owner, Omar Rafique, with a noise abatement notice that required him to ensure locals were no longer disturbed by the business in May last year.
The council continued to receive noise complaints and investigations proved the notice was being breached.
Mr Rafique was summoned to appear at Worthing Magistrates’ Court on Monday, April 28, where he was sentenced after previously pleading guilty for failing to comply with the requirements of the notice.
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The court fined Mr Rafique £5,000 and ordered him to pay £1,000 in compensation to the residents involved with the case and a further £5,737.51 in costs.
A spokesman for Worthing Borough Council added: “If you have a problem with noise, light, smoke, smells or dust at your home, report it to our environmental protection team by visiting: https://www.adur-worthing.gov.uk/report-it/.”
The former site of Angels Bar and Club, which announced its closure in June last year, was listed as a retail premises for sale by estate agent Jacobs Steel.
The rateable value – an estimate of what it would cost to rent a property for a year – provided by the Valuation Office Agency is £48,000.
The bar cited “rising costs and changing customer habits” as factors that made it “increasingly difficult to sustain operations” at the time of its closure.
The business also thanked all of its customers for their loyalty.
The impressive red brick structure was originally a church, and features an usual double-façade design.
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