Neighbour appeals decision to grant retention for garden room extension at Cork pub

The retention of an extension to a Blarney Street pub has been appealed to An Comisiún Pleanála following a complaint by a neighbour about “frightening” antisocial behaviour.

Cork City Council had granted permission last month for the retention of rear single storey garden room extension at The Joshua Tree Bar, subject to seven conditions including noise level limits.

A neighbour of the pub has lodged the appeal with ACP, after objecting to Cork City Council previously, saying that the extension was “an unlicenced premises without planning permission”. 

He said it has caused huge disturbance to him including noise which is “considerable and unbearable”. 

He said it awakens him at night; that it also interferes with his privacy in his garden, which the pub overlooks, and that patrons “urinate in my front garden or place empty bottles of beer or empty pint glasses in my premises.

“Every weekend, there is antisocial behaviour emanating from The Joshua Tree Bar, which spills out onto Blarney Street. It is on a frequent occurrence, if not every weekend, that the gardaí are called due to antisocial behaviour, drunken disorderly behaviour.”

The resident added that his late wife, who passed recently, was “frightened” by the behaviour while she was in ill health, and he continues to be frightened by it now: “I am 83 years of age and I should not be subjected every weekend to the antisocial behaviour, loud boisterous drunken behaviour from customers.”