Agenda and draft 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 dealt with at item 9 below).

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The Chair will explain the procedure that the Committee will follow for the hearing.  A copy of the procedure is attached.

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

He advised that the order of the agenda would be varied to hear item 7, Esplanade, before item 6, Elite Cattery.  Clerks note – the minutes will follow the order of the agenda.

The Chair stated for the record that for the purposes of this item the Committee were performing a non-statutory function.

The Chair referred to a late submission made by the Licence Holder’s representatives and informed them that as the Committee had not been provided with sufficient time to read the submission and so would not be able to provide a fair hearing.

The Licence Holder’s representative concurred with the views of the Committee and it was decided that the hearing be adjourned to a later date.

The Chair requested that any additional evidence be provided to the Licensing Officer on or before the submission date.

RESOLVED that the application be adjourned to a later date.

Daliah Barrett, Licensing Officer, introduced the application for a variation to a premises licence at Esplanade Club, 422 West Green Road, N15 3PU.  The Applicant wished to extend the opening hours of the premises on Friday and Saturday by 1h30mins to 0400hrs, and the sale of alcohol by 1h30mins to 0330hrs.  Representations had been made by Public Health, Metropolitan Police and Councillor Toni Mallett as a ward councillor.  The premises had a history of non-compliance, and had been subject to a review in October 2016, where the licence had been suspended for one month.

Monica Ukandu, Public Health, set out the representation from Public Health as set out on page 135 of the agenda pack.  Public Health had concerns that the Applicant would not be able to uphold the four licensing objectives, as the number of incidents which had occurred since June 2015 indicated poor management of the premises.  Public Health requested that the application be refused.

PC Mark Greaves, Metropolitan Police, set out the representation from the Police as set out on page 139 and 140 of the agenda pack.  There had been an incident outside of the premises at 0330 on 12 February 2017, and when PC Greaves had contacted the Applicant regarding the incident, the Applicant had explained that this had not been caused by patrons at his venue.  PC Greaves pointed out to the Applicant that the premises should have been closed at 0230, so the Applicant would not have known of the incident as he should not have been at the premises.  The Applicant informed PC Greaves that there was a Temporary Event Notice in place, but on investigation no TEN had been granted.  PC Greaves requested to see CCTV to confirm that the premises was closing on time, but was informed that the CCTV hard drive had been accidently deleted.  PC Greaves considered that this still demonstrated bad management of the premises.  He requested that the application be refused, and requested that a number of conditions regarding CCTV be added to the licence.

Steven Pickering, Applicant Representative, presented the application for a variation to the premises licence.  The premises had operated 11 Temporary Event Notices since the start of the year, each of which had been granted by the Licensing Authority, and no incidents had occurred.  The premises were spotlessly clean and well designed, with an experience Designated Premises Supervisor in place.  There had been no representations made by local residents, which suggested that there were no issues with the local residents.  In response to the representation made by the Police, Mr Pickering confirmed that the Applicant would be happy to accept all of the conditions requested.  In relation to the incident referred to by the Police, Mr Pickering explained that the venue was not open, but that there were members of staff at the premises who were cleaning and cashing up after a long weekend.

In response, PC Greaves referred to his conversation with the Applicant where he was told that the  ...  view the full minutes text for item 26.

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

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