Agenda and minutes

Please note this meeting may be filmed or recorded by the Council for live or subsequent broadcast via the Council’s internet site or by anyone attending the meeting using any communication method.  Members of the public participating in the meeting (e.g. making deputations, asking questions, making oral protests) should be aware that they are likely to be filmed, recorded or reported on.  By entering the ‘meeting room’, you are consenting to being filmed and to the possible use of those images and sound recordings.

The Chair of the meeting has the discretion to terminate or suspend filming or recording, if in his or her opinion continuation of the filming, recording or reporting would disrupt or prejudice the proceedings, infringe the rights of any individual, or may lead to the breach of a legal obligation by the Council.

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

To receive any apologies for absence.

There were no apologies for absence. 

It being a special meeting of the Sub Committee, under Part Four, Section B, Paragraph 17, of the Council’s Constitution, no other business shall be considered at the meeting.

There were none.

The Chair will explain the procedure that the Committee will follow for the hearing considered under the Licensing Act 2003.

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

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

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

·         A document had been received from the licence holder of a summary of conditions that have been agreed with the applicant.

·         The application consented to incidents. The first incident related to an underage sale made on 4 August 2021. A second incident involves non-duty-paid cigarettes and hand rolling tobacco found on the premises after Trading Standards inspection on 20 October 2021.

·         The premises licence holder and the DPS was Mr Turac Ademir.

·         The supporting documents in appendix 3 of the agenda papers showed some training that had been taken by staff and a record of incidents which were shared with Trading Standards at the time of the inspection.

·         The licence had been transferred to the licence holder in July 2020 and the review application related to the licensing objectives of crime and disorder and protection of children from harm.

·         The Sub-Committee did not have the power to assess criminality and the Sub-Committee’s role was to consider the application as part of licensing objectives only.

·         Certain types of criminal activity may be reported in relation to the premises such as the use of the premises, the use of storage for tobacco and alcohol and where a review application arises regarding those issues and the Sub-Committee was expected to seriously consider revocation of the premises licence.

·         The decision taken by the Sub-Committee should be appropriate and proportionate.

The applicant, Mr Michael Squire, Trading Standards, informed the Sub-Committee that:

·         There were two incidents that had occurred at the premises.

·         A 16-year-old had purchased a small bottle of wine from the premises and was served by Me Mehmet Ademir. Mr Turac Ademir was subsequently interviewed by the correspondents and had stated that there had been no written training records for Mr Mehmet Ademir regarding selling alcohol to underaged members of the public.

·         The second incident had occurred on 20 October 2021 whereby the trading standards authority arrived at the premises with trained dogs to inspect the premises. Two safes have been located behind the counter and offices were asked for keys. One safe was successfully opened but the other safe could not be opened and Mr Mehmet Ademir had advised that the safe could not be opened as it was broken. Subsequent to this, two dogs were deployed to sniff the safe and both dogs indicated that there was tobacco inside the safe. Officers instructed that they would seize the safe if it couldn’t be opened and after approximately 20 minutes of waiting to open the safe, officers decided they would remove it from the premises.

·         Mr Mehmet Ademir was given seven days to open the safe which was then opened and was found to be stocked with illegal tobacco products. The products have not been duty-paid or in standard packaging. There were also foreign health warnings on the packets and should have English language health warnings.

·         The value of the tobacco was in the region of £1600. There were 4,580 cigarettes  ...  view the full minutes text for item 6.

To consider an application for a new premises licence.

This item was withdrawn from the agenda.