Music promoters have renewed a licence allowing them to put on eight dance nights a year at a youth centre in Bristol.
HighRise Events was granted a new licence from Bristol City Council on Thursday, September 8. The new licence allows the venue to stay open until 4am, with a reduced capacity of 1,800.
Its previous licence, which expires later this month, allowed the venue to stay open later, with a capacity of 2,600. The venue is based at the Riverside Youth Project in St Jude’s, and a chunk of the takings from the club nights goes towards keeping the youth centre afloat.
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Running HighRise Events is Guy Hughes, who started up the company in Leeds in 2012, before expanding to Bristol in 2016. The company has put on events at Riverside Youth Project since 2019, including popular outdoor ones during lockdown.
Mr Hughes wrote to 400 people living nearby as part of the licensing application, which received very few objections. The site is located far from any housing, next to Riverside Park, an industrial estate, and the busy main road that leads onto the M32.
He told the council’s licensing sub-committee that thorough noise surveys are done to make sure no residents are affected by loud music, and also that staff sweep up the surrounding area for litter after every event.
