Agenda and 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 9 below).

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The Chair outlined the procedure to be followed during the hearing.

To consider an application for a new premises licence.

Dahlia Barrett, Licensing Officer, introduced the application for a variation of an existing premises licence at The Village, 118a West Green Road, London, N15 5AA. Representations had been received from local residents, Metropolitan Police and Enforcement Response.

Ms Barrett advised the Committee that no recommendations had been made but highlighted that there was CCTV footage available as part of the Metropolitan Police’s representation. Graham Hopkins, the applicants representative confirmed that he had seen the CCTV footage and was not contesting it.

Mark Greaves, Licensing Officer Haringey Police, outlined his representation against the application. He felt that since all evidence retrieved showed that the current conditions of the licence were not being upheld that this was strong evidence to show that any new conditions applied would not be complied with. Mr Greaves notified the Committee that Ms Basirika had been issued with a formal caution due to repeat breaches of the conditions of her licence.

Graham Hopkins, Applicants Representative, presented the application for a variation of the existing premises licence. Mr Hopkins notified the Committee of the changes that had been implemented on the premises including a change of sign, employment of door security, installation of a noise limiter and sound proofing.

In his closing statement, Mr Hopkins advised that he would be continually managing Ms Basirika to ensure that all conditions of the licence were complied with.

The Committee retired to consider the application

RESOLVED

The Committee carefully considered the Licence holder’s application to vary an existing premises licence, the representations made by the Metropolitan Police, Enforcement Response, local residents and the representations made by the Applicant and her representative, the Council’s Statement of Licensing Policy and the Licensing Act 2003 s182 guidance.

Having heard the parties’ evidence, the Committee resolved to refuse the application.  The Committee noted that over the course of the existing premises licence, there had been a number of incidents of noise nuisance and several occasions when the premises had operated in a manner that was inconsistent with the terms of the licence.

The committee noted this history of incidents and expressed some surprise that a relatively short period of a little over two months after accepting a caution, for repeat breaches of the licensing conditions, the applicant had applied to vary the licence conditions.  In the period following the caution public nuisance in the form of noise emanating from the premises was noted.  In addition after the caution the premises had served alcohol outside the permitted hours.

The application for a variation was received in May 2017 and during June 2017 CCTV evidence revealed multiple sales of alcohol outside the permitted hours, as well as individuals entering the premises after 2300 hours in breach of the licence conditions.  These matters were put to applicant and admitted unequivocally.

The committee noted that the applicant had held her licence for some time. The responsible authorities had engaged with her concerning breaches of the licence on previous occasions, but despite this, the pattern of breaches had continued.  The  ...  view the full minutes text for item 47.

To consider any new items of admitted under item 3 above.

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