The owner of Hunton Park, near Leavesden, said that the hotel “needs” the marquee to attract wedding bookings, and described the cinema as “a way to bring the hotel back to the community”. But residents who live nearby raised concerns that previous complaints about noise from the hotel may be exacerbated by changes to its operating licence. Councillors on Three Rivers District Council’s licensing sub-committee heard from an objector who said: “I can still hear the music inside my house with the windows closed.
“It still keeps my daughter awake at night. Your ‘limiting system’ is not making the music inaudible at your boundary; it’s not even making it inaudible in my house. “On occasion, in the past, we’ve had to go away for the weekend to avoid it because it’s quite upsetting if you have a small child.
” He said the noise was sometimes audible “even over the TV”, and called for a condition stating that noise must not be audible beyond the hotel’s boundary to be included in the licence. Another resident, chair of the local residents’ association, said he was “prepared to accept the hotel is better run now than it was”, but felt there was not enough detail on how the hotel would “manage noise”. Environmental health said they had received three complaints about noise from the hotel this year, including two in September.
But the hotel owner said they had not been made aware of the recent complaints, and that this meant they were “stuck.