Agenda and minutes

The Chair will draw attention to the emergency evacuation procedure as set out under Note 5 on the previous page.

The Democratic Services Officer read out the procedure.

RESOLVED that a Vice-Chair was not required on this occasion.

Apologies were received from Councillor Bryan Chalker, for whom Councillor Carol Paradise substituted.

To receive any declarations from Members/Officers of personal/prejudicial interests in respect of matters for consideration at this meeting, together with their statements on the nature of any such interests declared.

There were none.

There was none.

The Chair will, if required, explain the licensing procedure.

The Chairman drew attention to the review procedure, copies of which had been made available to members of the public attending the meeting.

Applicant for Review: Diarmid Henry (Environmental Health Officer)

Licence Holder: Ramazan Kolcak, represented by Professor Roy Light (St John’s Chambers)

Responsible Authority: Avon and Somerset Police, represented by Inspector Steve Mildren

Interested Parties: The Abbey Residents Association, represented by Ian Perkins

Witness for Environmental Protection: Mr Remo Del-Greco

The parties confirmed that they had received and understood the review procedure.

The Licensing Officer summarised the application. She explained that the premises was currently authorised to provide late-night refreshment until 03.00 Sunday to Thursday and until 04:00 Friday and Saturday. The application for review related to the licensing objective of the prevention of public nuisance. The Police had made a representation in relation to the licensing objective of the prevention of crime and disorder and an Interested Party had made a representation in relation to the licensing objective of the prevention of public nuisance. The Environmental Health Officer had requested that the terminal hour for late-night refreshment should be 02:00 on Friday and Saturday and 00:00 (midnight) on Sunday to Thursday. The Police had requested that a condition should be attached to the licence requiring the presence of two SIA-registered door staff on from 23:00 to the end of licensable activities on Friday and Saturday each week. A representation had been received from a local resident in support of the premises. Additional information from the Police, the Environmental Health Officer and the Licence Holder had been received and circulated to all parties. The Licensing Officer informed the Sub-Committee that the licence holder was seeking an adjournment of today’s hearing.

Professor Light stated the licence holder’s case for adjourning the hearing. He said that a deferral of 28 days would give the licence holder an opportunity to have discussions with the applicant for review, the other parties and the Licensing Officer with a view to finding a resolution of the issues through agreement rather than confrontation.

The Chair asked the other parties for their views on a deferral.

The Environmental Health Officer said that Environmental Health had been aware of problems relating to Bodrum since July 2010 and that he believed that the only solution would be an earlier terminal hour for the provision of late-night refreshment. He did not agree to the adjournment.

Inspector Mildren said that he believed that all relevant information about crime disorder associated with the premises had been presented with the police representation and that there was no need for the application to be deferred.

Professor Light said that a deferral would give the licence holder an opportunity to explore several options including speaking to the local taxi companies and to experiment with the use of door staff on one or two weekends to see if they actually made any difference.

Mr Del-Greco said that he thought that the use of door staff would merely encourage people to move elsewhere and would not change the fact that they were still in the street at 4am. He believed that the only solution was  ...  view the full minutes text for item 7.