A LICENSEE has agreed to install noise limiters in her pub in exchange for a entertainments licence.

Fenella Jayne Hurley of The Angel, West Street, Newport, altered her original application after Newport City Council's Environmental Health raised concerns regarding possible noise pollution.

The pub request to host live music between 7pm and 11pm on Monday to Saturday, and from 7pm until 10.30pm on Sunday was heard by licensing sub-committee today.

As part of the conditions agreed, live music will not be allowed in the lounge - which shares a party wall with a neighbouring house -and that windows will be kept closed at all times as and when music is played.

A noise limiter device, approved by the environmental health department, will also be installed within the bar area.

The limiter would switch off the music if it is louder than the threshold set by the council.

Thirteen letters of objection were written to the council in response to the application.

One resident attending the meeting said music from the pub would keep him awake at night.

"There's no point in going to bed before eleven," said Dennis Murphy, 87, who lives nearby on Blewitt Street.

"We can hear any music coming out of the lounge or the bar."

Robin Gray, senior licensing officer, said the pub had run events when Ms Hurley took over the licence - but these were stopped once it was realised that the venue was not properly licensed.

Both the council and three neighbours who attended the licensing meeting on Monday afternoon withdrew their representations after the offer of conditions, and the application was granted by the sub-committee.