Agenda and minutes

The Democratic Services  Officer informed those present of the procedure.

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

There were none.

There were none.

There was none.

These were approved as a correct record and signed by the Chair.

The Chair drew attention to the licensing procedure, copies of which had been made available to those attending the meeting.

Applicant: Mr and Mrs Amos, represented by Keith Chebsey (Bath Law), Mr David Amos, Edward Drewe, Kevin Sargent (Manager)

Interested Parties: Cllr Andrew Furse (not present), Mr Walton

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

The Senior Legal Adviser addressed a number of procedural issues. The first was that a number of representations had been received by the Council after the relevant closing date. These, she said, could not be taken into account by the Sub-Committee. The second was that whilst it was not a problem in itself that Cllr Furse, who was an Interested Party, and Cllr Nicol, the Chair, represented the same Ward, pre-application discussions had taken place between the two Councillors.  Cllr Nicol had also been contacted directly by residents about the application. She spoke on behalf of Cllr Nicol and stated that he was aware of his duty to disregard all pre-application discussions both with Cllr Furse and residents, that he would keep an open mind, and would take into account only the relevant representations made within the legal time limits and which had been circulated with the Agenda. Mr Chebsey said that the applicant appreciated that it could be difficult for elected Members in such a position, accepted these assurances, and therefore had no objection to Cllr Nicol chairing the hearing. Cllrs Curran and Batt stated that they too had been contacted by residents with late representations and stated that they would also disregard them. Cllr Batt said that he had replied to a number of emails from residents informing them that their representations were out of time.

The Licensing Officer summarised the application. The application was seeking to:

extend the current terminal hour for late night refreshment and the closing time from 01:00 to 02:00 Mondays to Wednesdays, from 01:00 to 03:00 on Thursday, from 03:00 to 04:00 on Friday and Saturday and from 23:30 to 01:00 on Sunday;

amend the opening hour from 10:00 to 09:00 daily;

remove the Annex 3 condition that:

“Staff are to ensure that at the close of business each day, the publicly accessible areas along both sides of the A4 road between the HSS Hire Shop, 15 St George’s Place to the West of Mr D’s, and the Hotel Monmouth to the East shall be cleared of any litter associated with Mr D’s”

and replace it by:

“At end of night, a litter patrol is carried out in the vicinity of the premises. All associated litter is collected. This is recorded and signed. Records to be kept for three months.”

amend the conditions relating to CCTV, packaging and the serving of soft drinks as detailed in Annex 2, to read:

CCTV to be in operation at the premises. Recordings shall be retained for 30 days.

All packaging shall be of either card, paper or polystyrene.

All soft drinks shall be served in either plastic or paper cups, aluminium cans or plastic bottles. No alcoholic drinks to be sold at the  ...  view the full minutes text for item 8.