Agenda and draft minutes

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The Chair referred to the filming of meetings and this information was noted.  

To receive any apologies for absence.

There were none.

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 dealt with under item 7 below).

There was no urgent business.  

There were no declarations of interest.  

The Sub-Committee will first hear from the Licensing Officer.  After that, the applicant will present their application and the Sub-Committee and objectors will have the opportunity to ask questions. Then, the objectors will present their case and the Sub-Committee and objectors will have the opportunity to ask questions. 

All parties will then have the opportunity to sum up, and then the meeting will conclude to allow the Sub-Committee to deliberate and reach a decision. This decision will then be provided in writing within five working days of this meeting.

The Chair provided a summary of the procedure for the meeting.  

To consider an application for a variation of a premises licence.

Upon opening the meeting, the Sub-Committee was informed that the applicant’s representative may need time to examine the videos in the link provided in the agenda papers within one of the representations.

At 7:15pm, the Sub-Committee decided to adjourn the hearing for the applicant’s representative to be able to inspect the videos. The meeting reconvened at 7:30pm.

Presentation by the Licensing Officer

Ms Daliah Barrett, Licensing Team Leader, informed the Sub-Committee that:

·         This was a variation application seeking to vary the layout of the premises which was not currently permitted on the existing licence. 

·         The variation was also seeking to amend some of the current conditions on the existing licence and to increase the hours of operation for licensable activities.

·         Paragraph 1.2 of the officer’s report outlined the proposed hours for late night refreshment. There was also an increase in the number of operating days with a terminal hour of 02:00 Sunday to Thursday and 03:00 on Friday and Saturday.

·         The sale of alcohol would be increased to a terminal hour of 02:00 Sunday to Thursday and 03:00 Friday and Saturday.

·         The application sought the sale of alcohol on and off the premises.

·         There was no application for regulated entertainment, but the premises would be able to benefit from the capability to offer live or recorded music up until 23:00 if the application was granted.

·         During the consultation period, representations were received from the Noise team and residents.

·         The premises was located within the terrace and shops, with residential properties above it. It was also an end of terrace premises.

·         The additional rear area of the premises was originally a garage.

·         The applicant had now sought planning permission and had obtained it. A copy of the planning permission had been included in the agenda papers.

·         The existing licence could be found on Appendix D in the agenda papers.

At this point in the proceedings, the applicant’s representative stated that he sought an adjournment to the hearing. Mr Stewart Gibson, the applicant’s representative, informed the Sub-Committee that:

·         A period of 15 minutes to go through a number of videos and ascertain where they came from and when they were filmed was not enough time.

·         It took him about five minutes to access the videos and he had then tried to e-mail them to the applicant so he could see them because he had not yet seen them. The applicant was unable to access them.

·         The remaining 10 minutes involved him trying to speak to the applicant about the videos.

·         He had emailed the Licencing Authority in the prior week stating that he was at an extreme disadvantage for the hearing as he could not access any of the videos. He had received a reply saying that the objector had been emailed and asked to provide the videos in a different format and that if they were unable to do so, then they would be inadmissible.

·         He had received no further information since then and it was not illogical to assume that  ...  view the full minutes text for item 6.

To consider any items of urgent business as identified at item 3.

There were no new items of urgent business.