THE manager of a homeless hostel in the town centre is angry at plans to build a new nightclub on their doorstep.

Phil Smith, from Threshold Housing Link, says the club, which is due to have a licence to open till 6am, will make life hell for those in the hostel.

Permission has already been granted for Liquid and Envy to open in the ground floor of the Holiday Inn Hotel in Bridge Street.

Those staying at the Culvery Court hostel already have to put up with the fall-out from drunks in Fleet Street and Mr Smith says matters will now get far worse.

As reported in Friday's Adver the Salvation Army has been forced out of their premises in Fleet Street because of trouble from revellers and Mr Smith says the hostel, in Queen Street, could follow.

Mr Smith said: "They might well manage the trouble inside the clubs but it's the chaos that goes on around that will be horrendous.

"When Destiny and Desire was open we had to endure harassment from the revellers knocking on windows and exposing themselves to our residents, ringing the door bell throughout the night only to wake our residents and abuse our staff who were also trying to sleep.

"We had vandalism to the building and frequent damage to cars on our car park.

"Then we had the standard public urinating, with some public defecating and copulating, but nevertheless still up against our building so that we had to clear up the aftermath."

He also says those nearby the hotel were under the wrong impression when the club was going through Swindon Council's planning procedure.

"We thought it was going to be a leisure facility, like a gym," he said.

Mr Smith has now called for the council to review the plans for the entrance to the club. He says the door is in a spot that will see clubbers spill out opposite the hostel.

He said: "They have got planning permission but really they need to be looking at steering people away from residential areas and whether they like it or not the hostel is a residential area.

"We're a hostel for homeless people and like everyone else they need to get sleep.

"If they are kept awake at night it's going to be even harder for them to complete the resettlement process."

A spokesman for the council said an application to install windows and doors for the proposed nightclub would be considered by the planning committee once all comments about the plans from the public had been received. The public have until today to express their views.