ACOMB does not need another place where people can drink alcohol, according to a resident who has objected to plans for a microbrewery to open a new bar.

Crooked Brewing Limited has applied for a licence to serve and sell alcohol at a new bar it is planning to open in an empty shop on Acomb Green.

It will be the first bar for the North Yorkshire-based microbrewery, which already supplies beer to pubs in York and Leeds including The Ackhorne, The Phoenix and Walmgate Ale House. The licensing application says the owners will serve predominantly session pale ales as well as wine, cider, soft drinks and snacks such as sausage rolls, chips and cheese platters.

But a letter of objection has been lodged against the application, saying there are seven other pubs within a 15 minute walk of the proposed bar.

The objection says opening a bar so close to the children’s play area on Acomb Green sets “a bad example” and adds that there are concerns that drinkers will “infringe on a family area”.

The letter says: “Acomb does not need another alcohol related establishment and the inevitable alcohol related issues that will come with it.” Crooked Brewing is applying for a licence for opening hours from 11am to midnight, Monday to Sunday and the owners have agreed to maintain a full CCTV system, stop selling alcohol at 11.30pm and for all alcohol sold in the shop area to be in sealed containers and not drunk on site.

The application says the site will be a “community bar”.

It adds that it is “targeted at discerning drinking" rather than "binge or excessive drinking” and at customers aged 25 or older “who, over and above looking for quality and flavoursome beer, are also looking for more choice in the beer they drink and have an interest in the originality and locality of the products”.

The bar is described as an alternative to city drinking. Plans say the pub will have capacity for about 60 people. The empty shop used to be Tate Appliances and A1 Motor Stores. It has a small terrace to the front.

The plans have been welcomed by some local residents commenting on the Facebook group the Acomb Collective.

Crooked Brewing Ltd was launched a year ago as a development of a learn to brew business. The application is due to be decided at a meeting of City of York Council’s licensing committee tomorrow (Thursday, August 30) at 10am.