THE owners of a bar have been told they cannot reopen it after police applied for it to have its licence revoked.

The White Room in Bury New Road, Whitefield, has faced problems with anti-social behaviour in the past and earlier this year GMP applied to Bury Council for a review of the licence.

However, a meeting of Bury Council’s Licensing Hearing Panel, heard that the owner’s have already voluntarily closed the business and are currently in the process of selling it.

In November 2016, a mass brawl took place at the bar involving up to 30 customers, as well as security staff and one man was left unconscious.

Two residents wrote to the meeting to make representations about problems surrounding the bar.

One said they had experienced anti-social behaviour from a drunk patron of the premises who was blocking the footpath and was becoming loud and aggressive.

Another said after 11pm on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays there was a ‘regular nuisance’ and very often customers would park on Hamilton Road and behave in a ‘loud and unacceptable manner’, shouting and playing music between the hours of 1am and 3am.

Father and son owners, Desmond and Bradley Barnes, came to a compromise with police, which was agreed by the panel.

The panel said that the Barnes’, operating under Barnsyard Ltd, will not reopen the venue and former manager Jamie-Leigh Morrison will not be the Designated Premises Supervisor.

The panel also restricted licensing hours until 11.30pm and stated that the business will close at midnight.

Chairman of the panel, Cllr David Jones, said that if the agreement hadn’t been reached ‘it may well have been’ that the licence would be revoked.

The owners accepted there had been incidents at the premises.

The premises has not yet been sold but the panel heard the potential new owner plans to invest £200,000.

Speaking after the meeting, Mr Barnes Snr said: “It is disappointing that it has gone to the the committee meeting this afternoon.

“We bought it for the right reason not the wrong one. We had some great people that came in.”