The application from the Grays Court Hotel, approved on Tuesday, May 6, will allow guests to take drinks to and from a planned coach house extension and its garden.
Jonathan Smith, acting for hotel owner Helen Heraty, said it would mean guests could take leftover drinks with them after meals but they would be discouraged from drinking en route.
But Kevin Mohan said he had been disturbed by early morning food deliveries to the hotel and events while also having to collect empty bottles left near his house.
York Council’s approval of the application on Tuesday, May 6 allows Grays Court sell alcohol to visitors for off-premises consumption from 10am to 11.30pm every day.
Supply will be available to hotel guests 24 hours a day.
It also licences outdoor areas including a path leading to the coach house building which is set to be converted into extra rooms after plans were approved in 2022.
The council’s licensing hearing heard it sought to extend relaxed rules which allowed venues to sell alcohol to take away brought in during the coronavirus pandemic, which expired in March.
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