Agenda and minutes

The Democratic Services Officer read out the procedure.

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

There were none.

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Any Member who needs to clarify any matters relating to the declaration of interests is recommended to seek advice from the Council’s Monitoring Officer before the meeting to expedite dealing with the item during the meeting.

There were none.

There was none.

RESOLVED that the minutes of the meeting held on Tuesday 16^th October 2012 be approved as a correct record and signed by the Chair(person).

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

The sub-committee is asked to determine the application.

Applicant: Pizza La Vita, 6 Cork Place, Upper Bristol Road, Bath, BA1 3BB, Claire Burford (owner) and Yasser Ibrahim (shop manager).

The Licensing Officer summarised the application which was for a new Premises Licence.  The details of the application were set out in paragraph 4.2 of the report.

The Licensing Officer confirmed that one representation had been received from a local resident regarding the prevention of public nuisance particularly, noise and odours.  She stated that additional information from the applicant had been circulated to all parties in advance of the hearing in respect of the representation.

The applicant stated her case and explained that they wished to provide late night refreshment until 1am on Friday, Saturday and Sunday evenings to improve their business.  If the additional opening hours did not prove successful they would close at 12 midnight.  She believed the majority of orders would be made on line at this time and therefore be delivery only.  She had been operating in the premises since July with A5 planning use and said that they had had no disturbances in that period.  In respect of the complaint about the noise outside from staff using mobile phones and the radio, she had spoken to them about this and they would do this inside and keep the doors shut.  She stated that the premises had been inspected by the Council and fully discharged.

The interested party and councillors asked some questions of the applicant and her responses are summarised below:

·  She believed orders would be placed on line and not by people on the way back from town;

·  Oil in the deep fat fryers was changed twice weekly, the fryer was a small table top one with a flue;

·  Staff no longer used their phones outside or the radio;

·  Vehicles were used for delivery and parked at the front of the premises and they employed one driver full-time and one part-time;

·  She confirmed that other nights the premises closed at 11pm.

The interested party presented her case and stated that 2 hours later opening would, she believe, attract more customers late at night on their way home from town.  She did not believe that the majority of orders would be on line.  Her young daughter had been disturbed by noise at the back of the premises.  In respect of the odours from the fryer it was not possible for her to sit in the back yard in the summer or open her windows.  She had lived in her property for 13 years and there had not been any previous problems.

The councillors and the applicant asked questions of the interested party and her responses are summarised below:

·  The interested party had not contacted the Council’s Environmental Health but had contacted Planning, it was suggested that she contact Environmental Health as they would investigate any problems;

·  Her property was set back from the road so she was not unduly disturbed from people walking home from town, occasionally larger groups of people;

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