Agenda and minutes

The Democratic Services Officer read out the emergency evacuation procedure.

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RESOLVED that the minutes of the previous meeting be agreed as a correct record and signed by the Chair.

The Chair explained the procedure for the meeting and all parties confirmed that they had received it.

The Senior Licensing Officer presented the report which was a Variation of a Premises Licence.

The applicant’s case

The applicant’s agent presented his case and drew attention to the following:

1.  The current licence was for the sale of alcohol, performance and dance and there was no proposal to add to the licensed activities, the application was for a variation to the licence.

2.  The variation proposed no change to the current times, but to add non-standard activity times on bank holidays to 0300 and on specific Sundays to 0400.  This would be 4 or 5 times a year and would mirror the hours on the licence for Monday – Saturday.

3.  Previously a Temporary Events Notice (TENS) licence had been applied for to allow the variation to times on certain dates.  By applying for a variation, this would allow appropriate conditions to be attached.

4.  The police had not raised any objection following pre-application consultation. 

5.  The original application included a proposal for recorded music to be played in the garden, but this was subsequently withdrawn as a result of concerns raised by the Environmental Health Officer.  A dedicated member of staff would be on duty in the garden area to further mitigate concerns. 

6.  It was hoped that this would allay the fears of the local residents who had objected to the application.

7.  There had also been two representations of support for the application.

Following questions, the applicant/agent confirmed the following:

1.  The application sought the removal of certain conditions and offered further measures which could be approved as conditions in order to promote licensing objectives.  The proposed timings had previously been authorised as TENS and had not therefore been subject to conditions.

2.  Previous TENS applications had been granted.

3.  The music was controlled inside the venue and the volume levels had been set after 11pm at a level agreed with Environmental Health Officers.

4.  A member of staff would be responsible for ensuring that the door to the garden would be shut.

5.  There were no plans for additional sound proofing, on the additional nights proposed by the variation, the venue would operate the same way as Monday-Saturday.

6.  A DJ playing pre-recorded music was defined as recorded music but if the DJ was creating new music this was classified as live music.

7.  According to the fire risk assessment, a maximum of 80 people could be situated in the garden although it was not anticipated that the garden would be occupied to the maximum capacity.

Other parties

The committee heard representation from local residents.

Richard Brown, local resident, made the following comments:

1.  He was that he objecting to the application on the grounds of preventing public nuisance.

2.  The garden was in close proximity to a number of residential dwellings.

3.  There were 22 objections to the application.

4.  Local residents had previously complained about the level of noise from amplified/DJ dance music and the behaviour of customers.

5.  The application did  ...  view the full minutes text for item 92.

The Sub-Committee is asked to consider passing the following resolution:

“the Sub-Committee having been satisfied that the public interest would be better served by not disclosing relevant information, in accordance with the provisions of Section 100(A)(4) of the Local Government Act 1972, RESOLVES that the public shall be excluded from the meeting for the following item(s) of business and the reporting of the meeting be prevented under Section 100A(5A), because of the likely disclosure of exempt information as defined in paragraphs 1 and 2 of Part 1 of Schedule 12A of the Act, as amended.   

The following item was deferred and so there was no requirement to exclude the public from the meeting.

This item was deferred and would be considered at a future meeting.