​The 50-acre Pudleston Court near Leominster applied last month for a licence to permit live and recorded music, including outdoors, until midnight six days a week, in and around five holiday rental properties and the estate office – though not in the main grade II-listed manor house. It also wanted to be able to sell alcohol and hot food and drinks till these times. RELATED NEWS : After six valid objections to this were lodged locally, a decision on the bid was passed to councillors on Herefordshire Council’s licensing subcommittee. A nearby resident, Mr Lowry, said that with no natural barriers to sound in the area, “it travels very easily across the countryside – I can hear cows mooing a kilometre away”. “Sleep disturbance from late-night outdoor entertainment will have a direct detrimental impact on our health and well-being,” he said, claiming that the applicants’ assurance that no noise would reach neighbouring properties “is not credible”. Stay updated with all the latest Herefordshire news that matters to you! Read the local news and stay informed with our advert-free app, read the paper before anyone else via: The Digital Edition, gain unlimited access to Hereford Times website, and much more. For Pudleston Court Limited, Jo Stirling-Brown assured the committee that a noise management plan was already in place and “we’ve already been testing the sound levels at the extremities of the property”. Events at the estate “generally will be based around experiences for guests – yoga, wellness weekends, craft weekends and things like that”, with weddings and large corporate events “only a very minor part of our programme”, she said. Neighbours would be provided with a contact number of an on-call member of staff to whom they could put any noise concerns, and it would be “prudent” to notify them of larger events beforehand. OTHER NEWS : Addressing one of the earlier written objections, Ms Stirling-Brown added: “We have livestock on our own site, so there is absolutely no way we will be having fireworks at all.” The committee agreed to grant the licence as asked for. There was previously speculation that the multi-million-pound estate could be bought by William and Kate, when vehicles with a police escort were spotted leaving it in 2011 shortly after the couple’s wedding.