Jump to full article: This is Bristol (UK), 2009-10-27
Intro: Nailsea pub landlord may have to pull down a smoking shelter he put up outside his inn as councillors said it "adversely affected the character of the area".
Mick Davidson, who has run the Blue Flame pub at Netherton Wood Lane, West End, Nailsea, for 21 years, put up the pergola style shelter at the front of the pub a couple of months ago after customers complained that they had nowhere dry to enjoy a cigarette.
Mick had previously put up gazebos at the front of the pub for smokers, but was forced to take them down after they blew over in high winds.
He then decided to create the wooden shelter, which has a metal and felt roof and is concreted into the ground, in front of the main bar where his smokers gather for a puff outside the pub.
But the future of the shelter - and whether it can stay put - is in the balance after complaints from local residents.
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