Issue - meetings

To consider an application for a NEW Premises License.

(Agenda Item 6)

               The Licensing Officer, Ms Barrett, presented the report to the Committee. She informed members that no objections to the application had been received from the Police, Enforcement Services, the Food Team, the Health and Safety team, Trading Standards, Safer Communities Service or the Fire Officer. However, the Planning Officer had made a representation on the matter.

               Ms Barrett stated the Planning Service was concerned that the applicant, who held a lease from Haringey Council for the shop, had moved the toilet and kitchen facilities from the rear of the shop and installed them in the rear yard. This had been done without seeking planning permission. Haringey Council, as the landlord, had also not given consent for this to be done.

               Ms Barrett informed the Committee the Planning Service were considering enforcement action. In addition, Property Services stated they were investigating taking action as the landlord.

               The Committee was advised by the representative from Legal Services, Mr Mitcheson, that the concerns expressed about the tenants’ breach of covenant were not relevant to the deliberations of Licensing Committee. This was because they did not relate to the licensing function of the authority but to its functions as a landlord and as a planning authority.

               In her application, the applicant, Mrs Cicekli, had stated that there would be two people on duty in the shop who would be able to sell alcohol. The Committee asked Mrs Cicekli who those people would be.

               Mrs Cicekli informed the Committee that she and her husband would be the two people on the premises who would be selling alcohol.

               Mrs Cicekli stated that she was currently in possession of a personal licence to sell alcohol. However, this licence was an old licence. She stated that she was in the process of applying for a new licence.

RESOLVED:

That the application for a new premises licence be granted, subject to the following conditions:

1.      The statutory mandatory conditions 19 to 21 of the Act;

2.      That the recommendations of the Child Protection Authority on proof of age be complied with ;

3.      That the provisions of the operating schedule be enforced;

4.      That the designated premises supervisor be in possession of a valid personal licence; and that the licensing officer be shown the current personal licence of any people named as designated premises supervisors.