A new Dublin city centre hotel is seeking a High Court injunction over music noise levels from an adjoining restaurant\/late night music venue, which has allegedly resulted in complaints from guests and the closure of 31 of its 129 bedrooms.<\/p>\n
The Hoxton Hotel, formerly the Central Hotel, Exchequer Street, adjoins and surrounds the Yamamori Izakaya restaurant and nightclub\/late night bar on George’s Street. The buildings share party walls.<\/p>\n
The Hoxton, part of a global chain, reopened on November 20th last following extensive refurbishment.<\/p>\n
Stephan Ernest, hotel manager, in an affidavit seeking an injunction, said since then there had been “repeated and serious noise nuisance” from Yamamori during late night and early morning hours.<\/p>\n
The “elevated noise levels” have resulted in serious interference with the peaceful enjoyment of the hotel by guests.<\/p>\n
The music is on five nights a week from Wednesdays to Saturdays from around 11pm to around 3am and to 2.30am on Sundays.<\/p>\n
Mr Ernest said as a result of complaints, the hotel has been forced to compensate guests and received negative online reviews. It withdrew a substantial number of rooms from use, currently standing at 31.<\/p>\n
There had been correspondence between the parties over a number of weeks, with the Yamamori offering to put in tamper-proof sound-limiting devices, Mr Ernest said. There were also promises that its noise expert would meet with the hotel’s expert, but no meeting took place.<\/p>\n
Andrew Walker SC, for Trinity Hospitality, told Mr Justice Brian Cregan on Thursday that his client estimates projected losses as a result of rooms not being let, of some \u20ac300,000 by the end of March.<\/p>\n
Counsel said the Yamamori side had also suggested the hotel should have put in noise attenuation measures during refurbishment.<\/p>\n
The judge granted permission, with only the Hoxton side represented, for short service of the proceedings on the defendant. He said the case could come back next week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new Dublin city centre hotel is seeking a High Court injunction over music noise levels from an…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":295600,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-295599","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295599\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}