Agenda and draft minutes

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The Chair will consider the admission of any late items of urgent business.  (Late items will be considered under the agenda item where they appear.  New items will be deal with at item 7 below).

There was tabled information from Trading Standards containing evidence to support the review of the trading license.

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The Chair will explain the procedure that the Committee will follow for the hearing considered under the Licensing Act 2003.  A copy of the procedure is attached.

The Chair continued to provide a summary of the procedure, referring to the Topic headings at section 5 of the review summary.

To consider an application for a premises licence review brought by the

Trading Standards Team as a responsible authority.

The Review

Daliah Barratt presented an application by the Trading Standards Team for a review of the premises license at Euro Market.

A premises license was originally granted to Mr Kurdah Mustapha in April 2016, the license was subsequently transferred in September 2016 to Ms Roz Husain and a Shorish Hamza. However, it was apparent that the named individuals were managing and had control of the business as an early as July 2016. The environmental Health Officer had carried out an inspection on the 26^th of July and became suspicious of the activity and products seen in store at the time of the visit. The officers concerns were passed over to the Trading Standards officer who carried out a follow up inspection and came across illicit goods referred to in the review papers. The license holder and DPS had not engaged in the process and had failed to attend meetings to discuss these matters.

 Mrs Barrett referred to the licensable activities authorised by the License:

Supply of Alcohol

Monday to Saturday 0800 to 2300

Sunday                      1000 to 2230

Good Friday              08000 to 2230

Christmas Day          1200 to 1500 & 1900 to 2330

The designated premises supervisor was Mr Shorish Hamza.

The review of premises licenses was brought forward by the Trading Standards Team - under sections 1 and 2 of the licensing objectives – the prevention of crime and disorder, and public safety

 The Sub Committee would need to give due regard to the local authority’s responsibility to promote the licensing objectives.

Daliah Barratt advised that communications had been received from Ms Hussein, in relation to the review hearing, and it was agreed that Ms Hussein could speak to the information contained in the email at topic heading 15.

Representations

The Trading Standards team referred to page 14 of the agenda pack which outlined the discovery and seizure of counterfeit tobacco, illicit tobacco and illicit alcohol on the 26^th of July 2016 and 27^th September 16. A sample of the seized cigarettes had been tested and had been found to be counterfeit. These types of cigarette often contained harmful chemicals and were an issue of public safety. The Trading Standards Team had invited Mr Kurdah Uzman to attend a recorded meeting on the 13^th of September but he had failed to attend.

During a second visit to the premises on the 27^th September 10 bottles of illicit vodka – with the duty not paid were found. The food registration application for the business was completed on the 4^th of August 2016 in the name of KTBC limited which proved that the ownership had changed and both Mr S Hamza and Ms Hussein were the owners of the premises, at the date of second inspection. The Committee were asked to refer to Page 18 of the pack which set out a chronology of events leading to this review. This included invitations to meetings where Mr Hamza and Ms Hussein could put forward mitigation but  ...  view the full minutes text for item 18.

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