NEIGHBOURS have called on licensing chiefs to consider their mental health above a company’s profit margins, following a pub’s application to open until 1.30am throughout the week.

The Cubitt House Limited’s application wants the Coach Makers Arms in Marylebone Lane, Marylebone, to stay open into the early hours.

They argued in their application that the “post-Covid world dictates that operators must avoid unnecessary expenditure and look to maximise what assets they have”.

But one official objection to Westminster City Council’s licensing committee said: “Remaining open until 1.30am is extremely late for a premise that is located in the middle of a residential area and will create significant noise disturbance.

“What can be acceptable at 11pm cannot happen at 1.30am on any day. Please put yourselves in our shoes if you / your children are woken up at 1.30am several times a week.

“The council should be focused on the wellbeing and mental health of its residents over increasing pub revenues.”

The applicants also suggested that themed film nights might take place in the basement of the building.

Another objector said: “Marylebone is a wonderful community of long-term residents. We believe the Coach Makers Arms should embrace the benefits of this neighbourhood and not seek to take away locals’ right to enjoyment as residents.”

Another said: “We often hear roars of conversation and laughter well after midnight”.

There were also concerns that noise from film screenings would spill into the main areas; and about a removal of restrictions on people standing outside the pub.

Even with a door supervisor in place, crowds outside the pub would “shout, cheer and scream down mobile phones”, another objector suggested.

The pub, just off Marylebone High Street, was built 140 years ago on what was the banks of the now buried River Tyburn.

This Georgian building once provided an “inn” for the coach makers.

The application said Cubitt House Limited had taken over the bar in 2017 with the menu and vibe being changed “to reflect the standards of the sister pubs and boutique hotels in Belgravia, Knightsbridge and Notting Hill” among other affluent areas of the capital.

It said that pictures supplied by objectors to the licensing committee were “not incriminating” and some showed the period after Covid-19 restrictions were lifted when “whole streets were closed and full of people eating and drinking”.

It added: “The post-Covid world dictates that operators must avoid unnecessary expenditure and look to maximise what assets they have.

“The applicant believes the current burners can be eased whilst still upholding the licensing objectives.”

A menu submitted as part of the application included pork belly and roast lamb rump roasts costing £32 a pop, while a fillet steak costs £47.

The application said Cubitt had “toyed with the idea” of showing films in the basement, for example “you could show a James Bond film with accompanying drinks such as Vespers, Champagne, Vodka Martinis”.

It appealed against conditions including having a doorman, saying that “no other site in the Cubitt House group has door supervisors”.

Councillors are expected to make a decision this week.