Gosport bar owner fined £10,000 over '˜thudding' noise complaints

A BAR owner has been fined thousands of pounds for the second time in three months.
Ben Bartrip outside of The Victualler.

Picture: Will RooneyBen Bartrip outside of The Victualler.

Picture: Will Rooney
Ben Bartrip outside of The Victualler. Picture: Will Rooney

Ben Bartrip, owner of The Victualler Harbourside Bar & Restaurant in Royal Clarence Yard, Gosport, was this week found guilty.

Magistrates fined him £1,000 for each charge, and ordered him to pay £6,026.25 prosecution costs to the council – as well as a £100 victim surcharge.

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The news comes after Bartrip’s company 88 75 Ltd, of Weevil Lane, was fined £20,000 in December last year at Portsmouth Crown Court for failing to remove benches outside the venue.

Portsmouth Magistrates’ Court this week heard how rock bands were playing live music at the venue that resulted in neighbours’ floors vibrating and words to songs being clearly audible from apartments nearby.

A marquee had also been put up to stage events.