Villagers are drawing up plans to fight off a hotel's bid to stay open all day and night, serve alcohol into the early hours and dish up hot food until 5am.

The Elmwood Hotel in Calverley has also angered residents in the peaceful village by wanting a licence to play live or recorded music from 10am until 12.30am.

Posters have appeared in the village urging residents to object amid concerns of possible 24-hour drinking.

Calverley councillor Andrew Carter (Cons) said the new licences would be "wholly inappropriate" and added: "The fear is this could lead to 24-hour drinking which Calverley does not want. There is a huge weight of objection from the village and we are hoping the licensing panel will listen."

Villagers had until today to send in objections against the applications by the Elmwood's Whitbread owners Brewers Fayre.

The new licences would mean The Elmwood could serve alcohol from 10am to 12.30am every day instead of 11am to 11pm and play music seven days a week also from 10am to 12.30am.

Whitbread's bid includes a late-night refreshments licence to serve hot food, hot drinks and soft drinks until 5am. And it includes a licence to stay open 24 hours.

Elderly people in the Brookleigh complex neighbouring The Elmwood were among the first to complain.

Warden Christine Fearnley said: "We have around 40 residents here and we are worried about the noise from the hotel and behaviour of people walking through here away from the main road as a short cut.

"We don't want to be troubled by anti-social behaviour and end up with beer cans and bottles in our gardens."

Tom Wake, of Calverley Residents Association, said: "It's ludicrous. If people want to keep on drinking then they'll keep serving them until 12.30am because they'll have the license. We can't allow this to happen.

"Brewers Fayre is trying to get a toe-hold and once they get that grip they will do what they want - and that's bring in young people from outside Calverley with money to spend on drink. Instead of developing the building and grounds into a friendly, family pub it will become a magnet for noisy late-night revellers."

But a spokesman for the hotel said: "At the end of the year the Government will be introducing new legislation on trading laws. As a result, Whitbread has taken the opportunity to apply for a licence, which will allow outlets to trade until 12.30am.

"Whitbread prides itself on its community work and The Elmwood will continue to close at the usual hour of 11pm. It has no intention to serve hot food until 5am and the extended licence for alcohol and music will only come into effect on special occasions such as New Year's Eve."

A Leeds City Council spokesman said: "We have had a number of representations about this application and will be writing to those who have contacted us."

The licensing committee meets on Friday, May 27.