A DECISION on whether a High Wycombe pub will be allowed to sell booze into the early hours of the morning is set to be revealed.

A panel of Buckinghamshire councillors was ready to judge The Fox Country Inn’s application for later closing times at a meeting earlier this week.

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This was cancelled, however, after residents and managers from the pub, which is based in Ibstone, came to an agreement.

Panel Chairman, Councillor Clive Harriss, said: “The meeting was due to go ahead remotely [on Tuesday, April 28].

“However last week, following further mediation efforts, a number of local residents put forward amended conditions to the applicant.

“These were subsequently accepted by all parties so the panel meeting wasn’t needed.

“The panel will carry out the final determination of the application via e-mail.”

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It has not been revealed what the “amended conditions” are, or whether they involve different closing and alcohol sale times to those proposed by the pub’s bosses.

A spokesperson for the council said this will be revealed next week when the decision is published.

Pub managers wanted to extend the hours they can sell alcohol to to 2am Friday to Sunday and to 1am Monday to Thursday.

Currently, the Country Inn is allowed to sell booze until midnight Sunday to Wednesday and until 1 am Thursday to Saturday.

A number of residents were not happy with the application for longer hours, with several sending in objections to the proposal over fears including increased noise, anti-social behaviour and more drink-driving.

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One wrote to the council: “The changes to the hours during the week are that of a nightclub.”

Police made no objection to the application for later hours but a report outlining incidents at the pub highlighted a restriction officers requested three years ago.

The Fox Inn was told it could only sell alcohol if a personal licence holder was on the premises in 2017 after police chiefs rapped pub bosses in for selling a vodka-and-coke to a teenage girl.

Police asked to review the licence held by the pub after a plainclothes officer was joined by the 14-year-old cadet undertaking a test purchase operation.