A bar owned by Crawley Town football club's controversial owners has been given a licence despite complaints about noise, litter and drinkers vomiting on neighbours' doorsteps.
Bar B in Marine Parade, Worthing, has been given permission to sell alcohol provided it sticks to rigid rules about opening times and noise.
Neighbours objected to the application by the Majeed brothers' firm SA Leisure, expressing fears about late-night disturbance and people behaving badly after drinking too much.
Mandy Rice, of the Seaspray block of flats at the junction of Marine Parade and South Street, said for years residents have had to put up with vomit on their doorsteps, food all over the road and noise until 3am or 4am.
She said: "We feel this application would be detrimental to our homes and the area with all the added noise of revellers leaving and their nasty habits on the way through to taxis."
One pensioner said her autistic adult son would almost certainly be disturbed as his bedroom was right next to the bar.
But a Worthing Borough Council licensing sub-committee ruled the licence could be granted provided noise did not rise above 70 decibels, the level of an animated conversation. Environmental health officials will monitor activity.
The bar will be limited to opening from 9am to 11.30pm or 11pm on Sundays and 12.30am on the Friday and Saturday of bank holiday weekends. On Christmas Eve it can stay open until 1am and on New Year's Eve, 2.30am.
Councillor John Lovell, who chaired the hearing, said: "The applicant agreed to the conditions asked for by the police and environmental health, which mean they're only allowed background music up to 70 decibels, which is very low. There will be no controlled entertainment, no DJs."
He said activity will be limited to the basement and ground floor so should not affect neighbours as they live on the first and second floors.
The Majeed brothers, Chas and Azwar, have been beset with financial difficulties connected with Crawley Town and have run into problems over their licence for Saqqara bar in North Street, Brighton. It was closed following riots outside last year and was given permission to reopen only if it banned R&B nights.
SA Leisure converted all three levels of the terraced property that is now Bar B into a caf bar before applying for planning permission. Retrospective permission was granted for the basement and ground floor only.
The owners have been told they must keep customers out of the upper floors, except for the first-floor toilets.
Neighbour Douglas Carver, 83, said: "My wife and I consider there are sufficient outlets for alcohol on the front here. We have lived here for 38 years. We have seen it go from a quiet front. It gets pretty turbulent in summer."
No one from SA Leisure was available to comment.
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