A community centre in St Paul's faces a £20,000 fine if it does not stop disturbing neighbours with loud music played late into the night.

Young mum Kimberley Davis says her life is being made a misery because she lives opposite CEED (Centre for Employment and Enterprise Development) in Dean Street.

The centre provides training and education opportunities for the community, but also has a hall which can be hired out and has a licence until 2am.

Ms Davis, 24, claims the centre has been a problem every weekend since she moved to the area in December.

She said: "Since then I have had the pleasure of having to put up with extremely amplified music every Friday and Saturday night, sometimes until five in the morning, with people smashing bottles and beeping their car horns as they leave.

"Last Saturday night I heard people from the flat next door, screaming and throwing stuff at people in CEED to get them to turn the music down.

"It escalated to groups of people shouting all sorts of things at each other outside my bedroom window.

"I have not slept soundly on weekends for a very long time and I'm exhausted. I've come to the end of my tether.

"I have a four-month-old daughter Erin who does sleep, but because I don't I'm stressed out and it has unsettled our routine."

Ms Davis is a full-time mum at the moment but plans to start her own baby clothes business in the near future, which will involve working from home.

She has contacted Bristol City Council noise pollution team which has visited on four occasions and have now served an abatement order on the centre.

The council said it had received a number of complaints from residents regarding loud music from CEED.

A council spokesman said: "In response to one of these complaints, a council officer monitored the situation in the early hours of the morning and measured music to be at a level to be a statutory nuisance.

"If satisfied a noise constitutes a statutory nuisance under the Environmental Protection Act 1990, the local authority should serve an abatement notice.

"An abatement notice was therefore served on CEED on July 9.

"We are trying to work with CEED in order to resolve the noise problem and a council officer has met with a number of members of the CEED board in order to try to come up with a plan of action.

"However if they fail to comply with the terms of an abatement notice it is a criminal offence. And for a business each breach of a notice can be liable on summary conviction to a fine of up to £20,000."

The Bristol Evening Post contacted CEED but no one was available for comment.