Pub across the road has started playing music outside, help!

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We've been here for 14 years, our house has a small garden and then backs onto the bowling green of the local pub behind. It's always been a fairly quiet pub (in the middle of a residential area), although after covid they put more tables outside, meaning general people noise mostly in the summer, but that's not too bad.

However, they've just renovated and have put a big wraparound outside cover up, with bright lightbulbs, and tonight they have started playing music that I can hear from where I work upstairs, and if I go outside it's just a thump thump thump of bad pop music that I can't get away from.

I'm so upset, a there's nowhere quiet outside to go and I am guessing in the summer it will be worse.

Where do I start? Who do I complain to? Complaining to the pub is a bit pointless, they've clearly had speakers put in for this purpose so one person asking them to turn it off isn't going to work!
Any advice very gratefully received.

Talk to the pub themselves and the brewery that owns them.
If no decent solution from that then contact the council.

Environmental Health at the council.

Check with your local Council’s licensing and environmental health departments whether they have permission to do this. A variation of their license should have been published and, if it had been granted, there should have been restrictions on the time, days, duration and volume of the music.

One near me has started doing this, and I’ve walked past at 11pm with nobody sat outside and the music blaring. I noticed the house opposite has recently gone on the market and I wonder if the two things are linked. There’s just no need, it’s a residential area.

A mate of mine had this. Complain to the council and also the pub owners.

This!

Thanks everyone, I'll check the license terms, I wasn't sure if/how.
A similar place a couple of miles away has restrictions as it's in a residential area, they have to switch music off by 10pm, but they are allowed it. I am hoping there's something specific in this one about outside noise.

At the very least I'm hoping there's change will be unacceptable, since it's been quiet here up to now and this is new.

I feel like a grumpy old bag going round like the fun police, and hate that it's made me have to do it!

If you have an official complaint you have to declare it when selling your home.