PLANS to create a bar at a pop-up record shop in Wallingford have prompted objections from residents.

Last year Richard Strange opened the pop-up shop in Castle Street after leaving his previous record store in the Market Place in 2006.

Now there are plans for the pop-up shop to be a bar in the evening after trading as a record shop in the day.

South Oxfordshire District Council's licensing panel is meeting tomorrow at 1.30pm to discuss an application for a premises licence for The Keep, which would allow staff to serve alcohol and stage live music.

The former shop near the Market Place was empty for five years before it became a pop-up shop.

The application from Robert McGregor and Samuel Smith said: "The building currently operates as a pop-up record store, Music Box, and will eventually sell music during the day, to be locked up as it becomes a micropub in the evening."

One resident in Bear Lane, who has written to object, said: "The premises are in a residential area where it is inappropriate to permit live music, films and the serving of alcohol.

"The building in which the applicant intends to serve alcohol and have live music is unsuitable.

"It is a light, timber-based, shed-like building with no soundproofing, little space and inadequate public facilities."

Another resident who lives nearby added: "There is already undesirable behaviour at the Lamb Arcade end of Castle Street, such as urinating/vomiting in doorways, obstructive parking, and people gathering in the Lamb Arcade courtyard.

"The opening of any pub at 1A Castle Street will lead to an increase in this behaviour.

"All unnecessary noise should stop at 11am."

Opening times for the licensed premises would be from noon to 11pm Monday to Thursday, between noon and midnight on Friday and Saturday, and between noon and 5pm on Sunday.

Retail expert Iain Nicholson launched the town's first pop-up shop in High Street last year as a way of reducing the number of empty units.