A PUB will re-open with a new licence and permission to host live music - but the licensee has assured residents it will not go back to the "unacceptable" way it was run in the past.

Members of Bradford Council's District Licensing Panel approved the new licence for the Barley Mow on Halifax Road at a meeting yesterday.

The pub will be able to open from 11am to 11pm on Sundays to Thursdays, and from 11am to midnight on Fridays and Saturdays.

The licence will also allow the pub to host live music until 11pm each night, and the new premises supervisor told the panel the music "would not be disco."

The application went before the panel due to a number of objections from local residents, who had raised concerns that the bid to play live music would make their lives a misery.

Peter Wadsworth, who, along with Christian North will be running the pub, said any concerns residents had related to how the pub was run in the past before they took it over, and they planned to run the business very differently.

He told the panel he was involved in pubs in Pontefract and Queensbury, and had history with the Barley Mow - having sold then landlord Jack Walford the pub's jukebox in his younger days.

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He had spent around £30,000 refurbishing the pub ready for it to reopen, including creating a new outdoor seating area at the front of the building.

He added: "I want to bring back the Barley Mow, not as it was, but as I want it to be, a community pub serving food, alcohol and with music on some nights. It will not be disco.

"I have sympathy with residents, but what they are saying is what has gone on in the past, I can't do anything about that.

"The type of music we will have will be an individual musician with their own amplification. There will be no disco, no loud music."

He vowed to stand next to neighbours properties himself to make sure music from the pub could not be heard by neighbours.

The application had been for the pub to open until midnight on weekdays and 1am on weekends.

Councillor Ruth Wood (Lab, Royds) spoke on behalf of residents who had objected. She said: "We are very concerned about this application. It is totally unreasonable to ask for an extension until 1am. The whole neighbourhood is in despair about this.

"I have spoke to neighbours and they all thought this was going to be a steak house.

"It is not just when the pub closes - after that people will be waiting for taxis, and shouting and singing, it will be another three quarters of an hour of misbehaviour."

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Referring to the residents who had objected based on previous noise issues at the pub, Mr Wadsworth said: "It will be nothing like it was, I assure you. I'm not going to invest £30,000 to somewhere that will create nothing but grief for neighbours.

"I didn't want to just re-open it and carry on with how it left off, because it was totally unacceptable. I have spoken to a lot of people locally who would not go there because of how it used to be."

When asked to elaborate on what the issues were he said: "I asked neighbours what it was like - some answers I can't repeat here."

He said most of the complaints related to noise from loud music being played in the pub, and told members he had cleared out a huge speaker from the pub when he took it on. He added: "There will be no disco, I'm not a disco person.

"We will not under any circumstances go back to what the pub was - that is just not acceptable."

He told members he had no idea where the idea that the pub was being turned into a steakhouse came from.

The panel heard that the application had originally sought permission for the pub to open to midnight during the week and 1am on weekends, but it was agreed to bring these closing times forward by an hour.

Use of a smoking area to the rear of the pub would be stopped, with customers asked to go to the front of the pub to smoke.