A PUB in York may have its licence changed in a bid to tackle noise problems at the premises.

A licence review hearing has been called for The Jubilee, in Balfour Street, following complaints about noise nuisance and two breaches of noise abatement notices.

Members of City of York Council’s licensing panel will decide whether to modify its conditions to restrict the use of live music after 11pm, to ban entertainment from the first floor and to place a condition on the licence requiring the pub to submit a noise policy by the end of January next year.

A report to councillors states the council and police have been investigating noise issues at the pub since 2007.

Warnings have been given to the seven different managers who have run the pub over the last four years, with crisis talks held between local councillors, environment officers and police last summer when complaints about the pub began to increase.

Local residents claim loud music had been played through speakers by a DJ, with one alleging the pub regularly operated outside authorised hours, on some occasions up to 6am.

In a letter to the council’s licence enforcement officer, one woman complained that customers leaving the pub were very drunk.

A warning letter was sent to the current premises manager, Peter Douthwaite, but the council continued to receive complaints concerned about noise and the way the pub was run.

The report states that police have been called to the pub on a number of occasions within the last three months of this year, including when two drunk men refused to leave and caused damage to the premises.

In October, staff again called police when a woman was causing trouble and two people were later evicted.

The hearing will take place on Thursday.