“Noisy and inconsiderate” guests at a venerable Conservative club in a Herefordshire town have angered neighbours, who fear the problem might be about to get worse.

Ross Conservative Club, of Hillsborough House, The Avenue in the town has applied for a premises licence to enable its function room to supply alcohol and hot food and to host live and recorded music till 11pm, and till half past midnight at weekends.

One resident, their name redacted, responded that to allow this “would mean an unacceptable disturbance to local residents”.

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Another nearby resident claimed that “noise would be unacceptable, and traffic increased” and that they have already “had disruptive behaviour from their clients late at night”.

Guests at the club also “throw cigarette butts plus other rubbish over the wall”, while “I have had their clients using our private parking and being abusive to me when I asked them to remove their car,” they claimed.

“I and most other residents are elderly and need to be treated with respect.”

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The club’s chairman, also unnamed, wrote back to residents that there would be no changes to the club’s existing licensing hours, and that it merely wished “to advertise our function room for hire to the general public, not just to our current members”.

Revenue from this would “ensure the continuation of our club which has been going since 1884”, they added.

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“We have three flats above the club so never have music beyond 12am due to our tenants and they have never complained in the past,” the chairman said, and also denied that club members were responsible for the intrusive parking.

While West Mercia Police and Herefordshire Council’s trading standards and environmental protection had also raised some concerns over security and nuisance, these were dealt with in conditions agreed with the club.

But with one of the neighbours’ objections still outstanding, the application will be decided by Herefordshire Council’s licensing subcommittee of councillors on Thursday September 19.