Agenda and draft minutes

The Democratic Services Officer drew attention to the Emergency Evacuation Procedure.

There were none.

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

(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 4.4 Appendix 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 or a member of his staff before the meeting to expedite dealing with the item during the meeting.

There were none.

There was none.

The Sub-Committee RESOLVED to approve the minutes of the meeting held on 18^th September 2025 and they were duly signed by the Chair.

The Chair referenced the procedure that would be followed during the course of the meeting.

Those that were present confirmed that they had received and understood the licensing procedure.

The Chair addressed all present and explained that a request to postpone the meeting had been received from one of the objectors. He asked the applicant if they were happy to proceed in light of the Sub-Committee receiving this request.

Mr Paul Evans replied that they were happy to proceed with the meeting.

The Lawyer (Regulatory & Prosecution) asked the Chair to acknowledge the request to postpone.

The Chair replied that he did so and said that following the reply from the applicant and in considering Regulations 11 and 12 in the Licensing Act 2003 (Hearings) Regulations 2005, he had decided that the meeting should continue as scheduled. He said that he did not believe that there was enough evidence from the objector to postpone the meeting.

The Public Protection Officer (Licensing) introduced the report to the Sub-Committee. He explained that they were being asked to consider an application for a new Premises Licence for Keynsham Cricket Ground.

He apologised for there being a clerical error within the cover report. At section 3.9 it should read as follows:

a) Paragraphs 3-6, 8-10, 13-14, 17-24, 29, 32-35, 38-41 of the 2025 policy.

Mr Evans addressed the Sub-Committee and explained that the club currently operates under a Club Premises Certificate enabling them to serve members and their guests. He said that operating under a Premises Licence would allow them to serve the general public and hold a limited number of outdoor events per year.

He stated that each event would be subject to a risk assessment and a Noise and Event Management Plan that would be agreed with the Environmental Protection team prior to an event taking place.

He informed the Sub-Committee that following the objections to the application from some local residents a meeting had been held with some of them to discuss the matter further.

He stated that notices regarding the application had been put in place within the local area in accordance with the rules of the process. He added that an advertisement had also been placed in the Western Daily Press on 1^st September 2025.

He said that the proposal from Mr Tozer to leaflet local residents was not practical.

He explained that in the short term the club has no intention to increase the number of outdoor events from two per year, but said that they were not willing to have that as a condition of the licence as they wanted to attempt to futureproof the club. However, he said that they were willing to reduce the number of proposed events from 12 to 6 per year.

He said that the perimeter fence should not be an issue for consideration under this process, but said that the club would investigate the matter and mitigate where possible.

He stated that as conditions of the licence the premises shall install and maintain a CCTV system, a Challenge 25 proof of age scheme shall be adopted and implemented and that clear notices shall be displayed at exits requesting patrons to  ...  view the full minutes text for item 41.