A poetry reading at a council meeting has helped a tea shop to continue operating in a former pub.
Codford Tea Rooms has been operating from the former George Hotel near Warminster for five years after the tenant found it was "impossible to cover costs as a public house".
Owners, Four Counties Inns, sought retroactive planning permission from Wiltshire Council for change of use, so it could run as a café rather than a pub.
Despite planning recommendations to reject the application, it was approved, with councillors saying they wanted to support the venue.
One of the staff members, Lizzie Leigh, also known as the tea poet, read out a piece of her work to the planning committee meeting.
It included references to other bars in the area as well as all the locals who visit, according to the Local Democracy Reporting Service.
From carers who come for cake to mothers who bring their children, the poem said more than 130 people used the venue each week.
Ms Leigh told the BBC that the "primary focus is friendship and food and intimacy".
"A lot of our customers are ladies. We hear it every day – 'if this was a pub I wouldn't come here. I wouldn't feel comfortable'."
