BOSSES at a Hereford bar want to extend its opening hours until 2am every night of the week.

Yates on Commercial Road currently closes at 1am but the venue’s owners, the Stonegate Pub Company, will today (Thursday) ask a council committee for the additional hour.

Stonegate also wants permission to open until 3am on 29 specified nights of the year, including St Andrew’s Day, Bonfire Night and Maundy Thursday.

However, the bid has been criticised by residents living in flats above the pub, as well as Herefordshire Council, which has objected.

One resident, who owns a property above the pub, has written to Herefordshire Council ahead of today’s Regulatory Sub-Committee meeting complaining noise levels coming from the pub are already unbearable.

“Already my tenants suffer from loud music until 1am,”

said the anonymous poster.

“If this licence was allowed to 3am this would make living above unbearable. 1am is bad enough.”

In a letter to the council’s licensing department, Stonegate said the current opening hours mean many customers have not finished their evening by the time 1am comes around.

“By Yates extending their hours until 2am, as has been experienced under temporary event notices and from customer feedback, it is believed that the customers will remain in Yates until the new closing hour and will then leave the premises and go home.”