A WA mining entrepreneur wants to shut The Raffles Hotel’s bar and beer garden for playing music too loudly.

Derek Noel Ammon, who lives in one of the luxury apartments beside the refurbished art deco tavern, is taking the owner to court for allegedly breaching noise limits. He claims “unreasonably loud” music is affecting his health and comfort.

Mr Ammon wants the internal bar and garden shut and the owner, Colonial Leisure Group, to pay unspecified damages.

Colonial, which also owns The Royal and Print Hall, is defending the claim.

Mr Ammon, who has lived in the apartment since 2009, is a Perth geologist who founded exploration company Iron Ore Holdings.

He made millions selling his stake in the Pilbara explorer to a company owned by Kerry Stokes at the height of the mining boom. Mr Stokes is chairman of Seven West Media, which publishes PerthNow.

In a writ of summons filed in the Supreme Court, Mr Ammon alleged that since “at least 2014” Colonial has “directed and allowed” its employees to play loud music that breached allowable noise limits.

As a result he had suffered “unreasonable interference to his health, comfort and amenity and ... thereby incurred loss and damage”. He has sought an injunction preventing Colonial from operating the beer garden and the bar in the near term until a full hearing can take place.

It is unclear whether The Raffles, which also has a restaurant, would be a viable business without its beer garden and bar.

It is not the first time Mr Ammon has embarked on a David versus Goliath-style court battle. In 2007 he lost a Supreme Court case against mining company Consolidated Minerals over a Pilbara iron ore project.

Mr Ammon unsuccessfully ran for Melville council last month on a platform of capping rates and banning river foreshore development.

Raffles Hotel Manager Tasmi Ashraf said the hotel "has a special place in the hearts of the people of Perth".

"It is a Western Australian icon with a long and colourful history that is important to the local and broader community - and it must be preserved," he said.

"Colonial Leisure Group will, with the support of the community, vigorously defend the imposition of untenable restrictions on the operation of one of Australia's oldest and most historic hotels."

Mr Ammon declined to comment.