Agenda and draft minutes

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Items
No. Item

65.

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.

66.

APOLOGIES FOR ABSENCE

Minutes:

None.

67.

URGENT BUSINESS

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 11 below).

Minutes:

None.

68.

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.

69.

MINUTES pdf icon PDF 309 KB

To approve the minutes of the previous meeting of the Licensing Sub Committee A held on the 19th of September 2017.

Minutes:

RESOLVED that the minutes of the meeting held on 19 September 2017 be approved as a correct record.

70.

SUMMARY OF PROCEDURE pdf icon PDF 161 KB

The Chair will explain the procedure that the Committee will follow for the hearing considered under the Licensing Act 2003 or Gambling Act 2005.  A copy of the procedure is attached.

Minutes:

Noted.

71.

ALL STAR FOOD AND WINE, 459 GREEN LANES, N4 1HE pdf icon PDF 32 KB

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

Additional documents:

Minutes:

This item was withdrawn from the agenda.

72.

272 MUSWELL HILL BROADWAY, N10 pdf icon PDF 82 KB

To consider an application for a new premises licence.

Additional documents:

Minutes:

Daliah Barrett, Licensing Officer, introduced the report as set out.  The application was for a new premises licence at 272 Muswell Hill Broadway, N10.  Representations had been received from the Metropolitan Police, Enforcement Response, Licensing Authority and number of local residents.  The applicant had reached an agreement with both the Metropolitan Police and Enforcement Response, and the representations had been withdrawn.

 

Councillor Viv Ross addressed the Committee on behalf of local residents and his fellow ward councillors.  There had been numerous noise and anti-social behaviour issues associated with the premises, and although it was accepted that this was a new application, it was hard to see how the clientele would change from those who used the old premises.  Local residents in Pinnacle Close and Dukes Avenue had reported many problems when the old premises had been open.  Councillor Ross referred to the mediation meeting carried out by the applicant and the suggestion put forward by the applicant in relation to limiting the membership to people living within a 5 mile radius.  Councillor Ross considered that this suggestion was meaningless, as 5 miles was a large radius and would continue to attract the same clientele as before.  He requested that the Committee refuse the application.

 

The Committee heard from a number of local residents who spoke in objection to the application.  A number of issues were raised, mainly that the previous premises had caused considerable disruption to the lives of people living close to the premises due to anti-social behaviour and noise nuisance.  Residents understood that this was a new application and should be judged on its’ own merit, however they felt that the reopening the premises would attract the same clientele as before.  They felt that the applicant had not sufficiently demonstrated how they would comply with the conditions on the licence, or promote the licensing objectives.  It was also pointed out to the Committee that the Police representation had been withdrawn because the applicant had agreed to the conditions set out by the Police – it did not necessarily mean that the premises was considered to be appropriate for the area, or would not cause a nuisance or crime in the vicinity.  Many residents also felt that the applicant was applying for reduced hours in order to obtain an licence, and would soon return to the Licensing Authority to apply for increased hours.  They requested that the Committee refuse the application.

 

Robert Sutherland, Applicant’s Representative, presented the application for a new premises licence.  He responded to the objectors in relation to the withdrawal of the Police’s representation and pointed out that this meant that the Police had no concerns in relation to crime and disorder.  Mr Sutherland suggested to the Committee that the conditions on the licence should satisfy any concerns that the licensing objectives would be upheld.

 

Mr Sutherland explained that the applicant had modified the application in order to ensure that the if the licence were to be granted then it would not be possible to operate  ...  view the full minutes text for item 72.

73.

ITEMS OF URGENT BUSINESS

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

Minutes:

None.