BIKINI-CLAD revellers, excessive noise and parking chaos will return if a former social club becomes a bar, neighbours fear.
Forest Road Snooker Club in Walthamstow, which only had permission to operate on a members-only basis, was closed down in July when it emerged it was operating as a public bar.
Relieved families living nearby had complained of noise from anti-social customers, parking congestion and scantily clad women, who attended ‘bikini parties’ at the venue, parading down the street.
Now owner Pantellis Lazarou has applied for a new licence to sell alcohol and provide entertainment, including live and recorded music.
He is proposing to open from noon to 2.30am from Sunday to Thursday, and until 4.30am on Fridays and Saturdays.
Residents in South Countess Road, opposite the bar, are fighting the plans, which they fear will result a return to disruption.
Neighbour Marc Francois, 51, said: “The club would hold bikini parties and the women would be walking down the street in bikinis to their cars while men took pictures of them.
“It is disturbing for people who live here to see that outside their homes.
“This is a residential area, we shouldn't have to put up with that.
“The noise level is also unfair when you have work the next morning.”
His neighbour Leonard Eastwood said: “The girls come out dressed in two-piece swim suits, then they walk up and down my road posing and they stop anywhere to have their photos taken.
“They park their cars down my road, on the pavement, on yellow lines, anywhere they can, they don't care.”
Hilary Quinton, also of South Countess Road, said she had been verbally abused when she asked for revellers to be quiet and claims to have found syringes in the garden.
“After all this is a residential area and it would be very unfair for the people who live around this club to be treated in this way,” she added.
Sandra Waugh, 64, said: “When people leave the club they come in our gardens to urinate.
“They leave the club at 4am screaming and shouting.
“I can't say anything to them because I am too afraid to come out of my house.
“If they get permission for the new licence it will only get worse.”
The owner of the venue was unavailable for comment.
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