Bristol pub to reopen four years after closing because of Covid lockdown 'parties' View Image

A pub that shut down after holding illegal 'parties' during covid lockdown will be reopened after South Gloucestershire councillors gave the go-ahead. The White Swan in North Street, Downend , closed in 2021 and has been fenced off because of vandalism and break-ins.

But property developer Andrew Morgan has bought the pub and was granted a premises licence by the council licensing sub-committee.

Four neighbours objected to the application saying the establishment caused antisocial behaviour, alleging there had been drug dealing, customers urinating on the street, and verbal abuse.

One resident said: “In the summers we could not sit in our garden due to noise disturbance. We had to

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