The Botany View Hotel could inherit residential neighbours if a four-storey apartment development proposal goes ahead, which could pose a problem for the recently relaunched live-music venue.

The hotel is the quiet end of south King Street, and currently only has second-hand shops, small grocers and laundromats for company. Known for hosting a rotating bill of up-and-coming musicians, it could be forced to turn the volume down if future residents complain about noise.

Matt Rule, the owner of gig-booking company The Music and Booze Co, who looks after the line-up, is not impressed. “The danger is not so much the development doing up, it’s the fact that people moving in there have every right to make life very difficult and ultimately very expensive for the business,” he says. “Until there are measures put in place, councils shouldn’t allow developers [to place residential buildings] on the border with a pub.”