VILLAGERS near Winchester have won a partial victory over plans for a local hotel to extend its licensing hours into the early morning.

Lainston House Hotel at Sparsholt applied have permission to serve alcohol to 2am every morning instead of the current stops times of 11pm Monday o Saturday and 10.30pm on Sundays.

It also wanted permission for entertainment until 2am as well sparking opposition from village residents.

The licensing committee granted the extension but with no amplified music for additional hours until the hotel submits a noise management plan.

But no outdoor regulated entertainment will be allowed after midnight any night Abigail Toms, city council environmental health manager, had been unhappy that the hotel would be able to have live and recorded music both indoors and outdoors until 2am.

"I believe that this will give rise to significant public nuisance."

the application attracted a dozen objections including from Keith Wood, a former city councillor and leader of Winchester City Council.

Another resident Richard Morse, of Woodman Lane, wrote: "The noise from the hotel directly affects our house, an effect that is accentuated by the local topography, such that sleep is impossible when parties are being held with music and/or fireworks. Depriving our household of sleep after midnight is not acceptable."