A NIGHTCLUB boss today pledged to fit double glazed windows in houses around his venue in a bid to keep his licence after residents demanded he be booted out.

Scott Moon, who runs Cubes nightclub in Blackburn, has been given a month to solve long-running noise complaints from irate residents.

Councillors sitting on Blackburn with Darwen's licensing committee gave Mr Moon the ultimatum after hearing from residents near the Duke Street venue who claim excessive noise is wrecking their lives.

The meeting was told several residents now get just four hours sleep a night.

And one father has had to resort to seeing his daughter only during the week because she cannot sleep if she stays over the weekend.

Residents in Simmons Street, which backs on to Duke Street, claim to be affected, along with people living on nearby Bathurst Street, New Park Street and Alma Street.

Records taken by residents stretching over a three month period were also presented to the committee, which has already given the club three months to improve things.

But they have given Mr Moon one more month to produce a definitive plan which will solve the problem once and for all. Mr Moon, who has run Cubes for two-and-a-half years and has succeeded in turning it into a venue which attracts some of the country's top DJs, said: "We have been given a month to sort things out and I am drawing up a plan at the moment.

"We are getting a regulator which would limit the level of the music and I am also contacting some of the residents to see if fitting double glazing in their homes would help.

"It will cost me around £10,000 to do all this.

"I am surprised that these complaints have come up now, two years after we have been in business.

Residents told the committee they regularly suffered from listening to 'drum beat music' into the early hours of the morning four nights a week and were also disturbed by drunk people singing as they left the club.

New Park Street resident Dennis Turner said: "We have signed petitions to try and get it stopped because it is causing a lot of problems for people.

"I don't sleep well during the night anyway so I tend to be up but the music upsets many people, and so do the taxis going to and from the club." Fellow resident John Ljevar, whose home is on the other side of two public car parks to Cubes, has led the residents' campaign at two licensing committees, explaining the problems facing residents -- including the fact they cannot sleep.

The residents who spoke to the committee said they would be happy if the noise regulator were used and their homes fitted with double glazing.

But councillors expressed concern that the regulator could be over-ridden by staff at the club.

Coun Jim Blackburn, chairman of the licensing committee, said: "They need a public entertainment licence to run the place.

"We have given them a month to draw up the plans to solve the problem but to be honest, the regulator and double glazing isn't really enough.

"We would like to see it soundproofed.

"We don't want to drive anyone out of business but we have to take these complaints seriously. It is just a shame there are so many houses so close."

The club recently attracted top DJ Joey Negro, who released a best-selling dance version of the theme to America Beauty under the name Jakarta earlier this year.