A LANDLADY has put up a cheeky sign after she received noise complaints from neighbours. Linda Vestwick, of The Three Ferrets pub in St Ives, Cornwall, stuck up the sign asking customers to whisper outside, after people complained to the local council. Instead of the usual polite notice asking customers to respect those nearby and […]
A LANDLADY has put up a cheeky sign after she received noise complaints from neighbours.
Linda Vestwick, of The Three Ferrets pub in St Ives, Cornwall, stuck up the sign asking customers to whisper outside, after people complained to the local council.
Instead of the usual polite notice asking customers to respect those nearby and keep the noise down, Linda opted for a more tongue-in-cheek approach.
The sign, which hangs above a window outside the boozer, reads: “Dear customers, can we please ask that you whisper whilst outside.
“This is due to the fact that we have some neighbours that forget that they live next door to a pub and not a library and have nothing better to do than run to the council and whinge.”
Linda said she got the idea after she saw another pub landlord on the news who had the same sign.
She told Cornwall Live: “We copied it off the telly because there was a man on the news somewhere in Plymouth whose pub was trying to be shut down [because of the noise complaints] and he got this sign to make everyone aware that they need to be quiet when they’re having their cigarettes outside.
“So, we just copied the sign from there and we put it outside our pub to tell everyone to whisper and be quiet when they’re outside.”
Linda said she had become frustrated with the pub’s neighbours after they had regularly complained to her about the noise and had escalated the issue further by approaching the council.
“You can’t just go and live opposite a pub and then expect the pub to be shut down,” she said.
“[The noise is] also because we have a sign which says you can’t smoke inside, so people go outside and talk while they have a cigarette but you have to expect that if you live opposite a pub.”
A similar sign was put up outside the Hare and Hounds in Braintree, Essex, in June this year after pub owner Michael Campbell claimed he endured months of whinging by neighbours that the noise was too loud.
During the Covid lockdown, the pub converted its large garden to accommodate customers, increasing the capacity from 46 indoors to 300 both indoors and outdoors.
The pub also started to host live music on Saturdays with acts, excluding bands, performing in the garden.
