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A bowls club in Caerphilly town has won permission to sell alcohol in its clubhouse.

Members of Morgan Jones Bowling Club will be able to enjoy a drink with their teammates and opponents inside the venue and on its veranda between midday and 9pm.

Caerphilly County Borough Council’s licensing committee has approved an alcohol licence for seven days a week, but a representative of the club said he “envisaged” drinking at the club to be “quite limited” and mostly take place on matchdays.

One nearby resident had objected to the plans, writing to the committee there was “already too much noise from the bowls club some evenings” and claiming “supplying alcohol in the park will cause me significant nuisance”.

But the committee, in its findings, said it “did not find the resident’s objections to be persuasive”.

The council’s environmental health department had recorded “no history of noise complaints” from the venue.

The committee said the normal bowling hours at the club were “not unusual or beyond the reasonable expected time range”.

The “infrequency” of the venue meant any prospect of noise nuisance was “remote”, the committee added.

The permitted drinking area at the club will not include several benches outside the clubhouse.