Nottingham’s popular Gloryholes crazy golf venue reveals burger restaurant expansion plan

An adults-only crazy golf venue in Nottingham will be expanding and almost doubling its employee numbers after teaming up with a burger restaurant.

Gloryholes, on George Street in Hockley, has been granted a variation to its licence to allow it to expand into a neighbouring building which was once home to a restaurant.

Frazer Wilson, operations manager for Gloryholes venues, told the Local Democracy Reporting Service they had teamed up with burger joint Slap and Pickle.

Slap and Pickle first started out as a one-off pop-up in South London and since opening its first permanent burger restaurant in Leeds in 2018, it now has outlets in Sheffield, Manchester, Hebden Bridge and Derbyshire.

The licence was granted during a Nottingham City Council Licensing Panel meeting on July 25, after the applicant sought to address concerns over noise.

Some residents living in the Trading House apartments above the venue in George Street had objected, prompting a series of changes.

The most notable change was the scrapping of plans to keep doors open until 2am.

Gloryholes is currently open until 10pm on Monday, 11pm Tuesday to Thursday, 1am Friday and Saturday, and until 11pm on Sundays.

Shemuel Sheikh, who was representing the applicant, said: “The variation initially was for increased hours for licensable activities, including the supply of alcohol and provision of regulated entertainment and late-night refreshment until 2am.

“However since becoming aware of some of the representations that have been raised by local residents, and as a direct result of those representations, the variation has been amended to no longer include the extended time element.”

According to Mr Sheikh a sound reduction plan will be put in place in response to concerns.

The plan will include keeping doors closed past 6pm, increasing signage and turning music off as soon as the last customer leaves.

Large, amplified speakers will also be replaced by smaller satellite speakers with reduced output, equivalent to that of a Bluetooth speaker.

Daniel Brown, director at Gloryholes, added: “It is quite clear that if we remove the large speakers throughout the site and replace them with small satellites the reduction will be huge.

“I can implement it immediately and have the large ones taken out. I have the satellite ones ready to go and it will be noticeable straight away.”

Some representations from residents have since been withdrawn due to the pledge to not extend opening hours.