Chelsea bar Jak's late-night opening will ‘lead to noisy supercars and drunks,' say neighbours

Chelsea residents say their lives will be made a misery if a bar where Prince Harry has socialised is allowed to extend its opening hours.

They claim drunken revellers and noisy supercars will keep them awake if Jak’s on King’s Road stays open until 1am — an hour longer than currently permitted.

Kerry Davis-Head, who lives in Burnaby Street where terraced houses sell for £1.8 million, wrote to the council: “Longer hours equals more drinking time, which equals more drunk behaviour on our streets.” She added: “We have noticed an increase in supercars who race around the roads, which seems to coincide with opening hours. To make this noise nuisance any later would be unacceptable.”

Ms Davis-Head is one of eight residents objecting to the application. She added the nuisance was acute “during the festive season” when revellers “seemed to have great difficulty getting into cars without banging the doors several times”.

Royal Mail driver Stephen Edhouse, 58, said he had once found human excrement near his home, adding: “It’s a shame because it’s a nice area and people treat it like muck.” David Leader, who lives on the opposite side of King’s Road in a gated estate, said he feared “more drunks, vomiting and urinating at our gates”.

A resident of Tettcot Road said: “I used to come out in the middle of the night in my onesie and say ‘this is a residential street’. But I don’t do that anymore.”

The council’s own noise and nuisance officer Keith Mehaffy has opposed the bar’s application, amid concerns over noise in the street at closing time. Jak’s is in the basement that housed Public, the nightclub run by Prince Harry’s friend Guy Pelly, which shut after complaints about anti-social behaviour and brawls.

A Jak’s spokesman said the application was to be decided by Kensington and Chelsea council and that it would not be respectful or appropriate to comment. The licensing sub-committee was due to make a decision today.