AN EXHAUSTED café owner has pleaded for a high-end restaurant’s licence to be reviewed after being 'put through hell' living next to constant noise.

Frances Fosh, who owns and lives above Charlie’s Café in Sidbury, has called on the council to review the opening hours of next-door neighbour Primo restaurant, after “extreme” noise levels emanating from the restaurant had left her “mentally and physically exhausted and angry.”

Ms Fosh, who is in her early 70s, said the flat she has lived in since 1986 “rocked” from the amount of noise on New Year’s Eve last year and fireworks let off until 1.30am had frightened her young grandchildren. Ms Fosh said she and her family had resorted to cramping into one bedroom furthest away from the restaurant but were still plagued by noise.

The restuarant is currently closed.

Worcestershire Regulatory Services (WRS) said it was “astonished” by the amount of noise in Ms Fosh’s flat.

In an email to the council last month, Helen Cameron, senior environmental health practitioner for Worcestershire Regulatory Services, said she had heard for herself the amount of noise coming from the restaurant to the flat and it was “highly intrusive.”

She supported the licence review and recommended to the council to shorten the opening hours and instruct the owners of the restaurant to install soundproofing.

The council’s licensing subcommittee approved changes to the restaurant’s licence in September 2017 to allow for a former car park to be converted into a beer garden.

Stipulations banned DJs from performing in the restaurant and from speakers from being installed in the garden. The licence also said the beer garden must also be closed and cleared by 11pm. The restaurant’s current licence means it must close by 12.30am.

Emails sent to WRS by Ms Fosh’s son Richard said the noise from the restaurant was destroying any ability to rest, was causing “constant stress and anguish” and making sleep very difficult.

He said: “Imagine your home for 30 years plus having an antique shop next door then suddenly becoming a late-night demi-disco.

“My mother has to still work most days of the week. As a lady in her early 70s, rest and recovery after hard day’s work are imperative and this is being denied by the situation next door.

Mr Fosh said it was impossible to leave windows open because the noise from the garden was too loud.

The city council’s licensing subcommittee meets on Friday (December 20) to discuss the application.