Agenda and draft minutes

The Democratic Services Officer read out the procedure.

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

Apologies were received from Cllr Gerry Curran, for whom Cllr Sarah Bevan substituted.

At this point in the meeting declarations of interest are received from Members in any of the agenda items under consideration at the meeting. Members are asked to indicate:

(a) The agenda item number in which they have an interest to declare.

(b) The nature of their interest.

(c) Whether their interest is a disclosable pecuniary interest or an other interest,  (as defined in Part 2, A and B of the Code of Conduct and Rules for Registration of Interests)

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.

The minutes of the meeting of 26 March 2013 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: Charlie’s Burgers T/A Yammo, represented by Ellen Potter (Partner)

The applicant’s representative confirmed that she had received and understood the licensing procedure.

The Licensing Officer summarised the application, which sought to vary the current licence as set out in paragraph 4.3 of the report. A representation had been received from a local resident relating to the licensing objective of the prevention of public nuisance.

Ms Potter stated the case for the applicant. She said that Yammo! was a brand new business. It was a high-end Italian burger bar and diner. Noting that a representation had been received from an Other Person living in Walcot Street, she said that she also lived in Walcot Street and she agreed that people coming out of clubs and other licensed premises in the area could be quite rowdy. However, customers of Yammo! would not be permitted just to drink. She submitted that the premises would not add to problems in the cumulative impact area. An open night had recently been held at the premises, and the feedback from local residents had been favourable. She said that conditions had been put into the operating schedule to further the licensing objectives. These conditions had been drafted with advice from Martin Purchase, the liquor licensing officer of Avon and Somerset Police. In response to questions from Members, she stated:

• vertical drinking would not be permitted at the premises

• there would be no off-sales to customers at the premises after 22:00 or to customers obviously intending to visit other drinking establishments afterwards; she would be happy to accept a condition restricting off sales of alcohol to deliveries only

• the delivery driver was very bright and would not hand over alcohol to someone he suspected was a minor; credit card refunds would be made if an order was withheld because of this

• she would be happy to agree to a condition prohibiting the sale of alcohol on the premises after 22:00 every day

• the premises had a small upstairs room where it was intended to show films; the Bath Film Festival and students would be offered the opportunity of screening films at the premises

Summing up, Ms Potter said that she was happy with the additional condition restricting off-sales to deliveries.

Following an adjournment the Sub-Committee RESOLVED to grant the application, (modified to permit the sale of alcohol, both on and off the premises to 22.00 every day), subject to the mandatory conditions relating to the sale of alcohol and the showing of films, conditions consistent with the Operating Schedule, in addition to those conditions already on the Premises Licence, and the following condition proposed by the applicant  and imposed by the Sub-Committee;

“The sale of alcohol for consumption off the premises shall only be permitted for takeaway deliveries”.

Authority was delegated to the Licensing Officer to issue the licence accordingly.

REASONS

Members have today determined an application for the variation of a Premises Licence for Yammo! 66 Walcot Street Bath. 

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