Agenda and decisions

Councillors to declare any disclosable pecuniary interests, other registerable interests, or non-registerable interests (including other pecuniary interests) they may have in the business to be transacted, and officers to declare any interests they may have in any contract to be considered.

None disclosed.

To consider Item 5.

The Sub-Committee resolved to not serve a Counter Notice to uphold the objection, and considered a modified Temporary Event Notice as follows:

1.         Supply of Alcohol

            23:00 hours to 01:00 hours.

2.         Late Night Refreshments

            23:00 hours to 01:00 hours.

3.         Regulated Entertainment

            23:00 hours to 02:00 hours.

4.         However, in doing so the Sub-Committee encouraged the premises user to ensure that the premises close no later than 02:30 hours to take account of nearby local residents.  Further, the Sub-Committee imposed the following conditions from the allied premises licence to the modified Notice:      

2.2        There shall be a notice at all exits at the venue used by patrons asking them to leave quietly and respect local residents.

2.3        An adequate CCTV system shall be installed, maintained and operated at the premises. The CCTV system shall cover all licensed areas and all entrances and exits. The system shall record continuously whilst the premises is open to the public and for licensable activities. Images must be of an evidentiary standard and be date and time stamped. The system installed must retain all images for a minimum of 28 days and these must be made available for the Police to view or remove on request. A member of staff trained in working the system and capable of downloading images shall be on duty whenever the premises is open to the public.

2.4       All persons involved in alcohol sales must receive full and adequate training on the law relating to licensing legislation, including but not limited to sales to underage children and sales to intoxicated people. A written record of the training that each person has received shall be maintained. All persons involved in alcohol sales shall have refresher training every 6 months. The training log and records are to be provided to the Police, the Local Authority or the Licensing Authority on request.

2.5       An effective 'Challenge 25 Policy' shall be implemented and maintained in place at the premises. Any persons appearing to be under the age of 25 who attempts to purchase alcohol must be challenged in respect of their age and required to provide adequate proof that they are over the age of 18 before they are sold or supplied with alcohol.

2.6       Only photographic based forms of identification shall be accepted as proof of age in respect of suspected underage sales. These must be accredited to the PASS scheme or subsequent equivalent but could also include passport, HM forces ID card, driving licence, national ID card.

2.7       A refusal log to record all attempts to purchase alcohol that were refused shall be kept on site and all refused sales recorded. The refusal log is to be provided to the Police, the Local Authority or the Licensing Authority on request (this can have no effect as the TEN only permits on supply of alcohol anyway, no off sales).