Agenda and draft minutes

Venue: The Cypriot Centre, Earlham Grove, Wood Green, N22 5HJ

Contact: Felicity Foley, Principal Committee Co-ordinator 

Items
No. Item

1.

FILMING AT MEETINGS

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.  Although we ask members of the public recording, filming or reporting on the meeting not to include the public seating areas, members of the public attending the meeting should be aware that we cannot guarantee that they will not be filmed or recorded by others attending the meeting.  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 and using the public seating area, 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.

Minutes:

Noted.

2.

Apologies for Absence

Minutes:

None.

3.

Urgent Business

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.

Minutes:

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

4.

Declarations of Interest

A member with a disclosable pecuniary interest or a prejudicial interest in a matter who attends a meeting of the authority at which the matter is considered:

 

(i) must disclose the interest at the start of the meeting or when the interest becomes apparent, and

(ii) may not participate in any discussion or vote on the matter and must withdraw from the meeting room.

 

A member who discloses at a meeting a disclosable pecuniary interest which is not registered in the Register of Members’ Interests or the subject of a pending notification must notify the Monitoring Officer of the interest within 28 days of the disclosure.

 

Disclosable pecuniary interests, personal interests and prejudicial interests are defined at Paragraphs 5-7 and Appendix A of the Members’ Code of Conduct.

Minutes:

None.

5.

Summary of Procedure

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.

Minutes:

Noted.

6.

THE BANC, 261-263 WEST GREEN ROAD, N15 pdf icon PDF 34 KB

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

Additional documents:

Minutes:

Daliah Barrett, Licensing Officer, introduced the application for a review of the premises licence at The Banc, 261 West Green Road.  The application had been submitted by local residents, on the grounds that the premises had failed to uphold and promote the licensing objectives relating to the prevention of public nuisance and crime and disorder.  The review requested a reduction in operating hours to 2230hrs across the week.

 

Representations had been received in support of the review and in support of the premises.  There had been no representations made by the Responsible Authorities. 

 

Ms Barrett provided some background to the premises.  The licence was transferred to the existing licence holders in 2010, and two variation applications had been granted in 2012 to allow use of the garden until 0100 and to alter the layout of the garden area.  At the time of these applications, no representations were made by Interested Parties or Responsible Authorities, and so the applications were granted.

 

Ms Barrett informed the Committee that under s131 of the Licensing Policy, “The licensing authority may consider withholding some or all of a person’s personal details where that person can demonstrate they have a genuine and well-founded fear of intimidation and the circumstances justify such action”.  Mr Dadds made a request for the details of the applicants and supporters, and as no incidents of intimidation were found, these details were provided to Mr Dadds.

 

In response to questions from the Committee, Ms Barrett advised that:

-           There were two noise nuisance complaints made against the premises in 2017, however this had been provided to the Committee for information, and was not a representation made by the noise enforcement team.

-           Although residents referred to traffic nuisance in their representations, the application for a review had been made on the grounds of crime and disorder, and prevention of public nuisance.

 

Elizabeth Haggerty spoke on behalf of some of the residents to request clarification on the submissions made by the premises licence holder, and whether these had been made within the prescribed time period of 28 days.  Mr Dadds advised that as the respondent to the application, the premises licence holder was invited to respond after the relevant Responsible Authorities had made their representations in the 28 day timescale.  Khumo Matthews, Legal Advisor, concurred with Mr Dadds.

 

Gen Doy, one of the applicants, presented the application for a review of the premises.  The application requested that the closing time of the premises be reduced from 0200 to 2230, due to the excessive noise nuisance created by the premises.  The premises was situated in a residential area, and it was not fair that the local residents should have to submit an application to prove that they had the right to quiet enjoyment of their local area.  Ms Doy referred to the expert report submitted by the premises and disagreed with the conclusion that any noise was caused by residents.  She informed the Committee that residents experienced noise issues from cars and customers  ...  view the full minutes text for item 6.