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Agenda and minutes

Venue: Committee Room 4, Town Hall, Upper Street, N1 2UD

Contact: Jackie Tunstall  020 7527 3068

Items
No. Item

211.

Introductions and procedure

Minutes:

Councillor Poole welcomed everyone to the meeting and officers and members introduced themselves.

212.

Apologies for absence

Minutes:

Apologies for absence were received from Councillor Ngongo.

213.

Declarations of substitute members

Minutes:

Councillor Wayne for Councillor Ngongo.

214.

Declarations of interest

If you have a Disclosable Pecuniary Interest* in an item of business:

§  if it is not yet on the council’s register, you must declare both the existence and details of it at the start of the meeting or when it becomes apparent;

§  you may choose to declare a Disclosable Pecuniary Interest that is already in the register in the interests of openness and transparency. 

In both the above cases, you must leave the room without participating in discussion of the item.

 

If you have a personal interest in an item of business and you intend to speak or vote on the item you must declare both the existence and details of it at the start of the meeting or when it becomes apparent but you may participate in the discussion and vote on the item.

 

*(a)     Employment, etc - Any employment, office, trade, profession or vocation carried on for profit or gain.

(b) Sponsorship - Any payment or other financial benefit in respect of your expenses in carrying out duties as a member, or of your election; including from a trade union.

(c) Contracts - Any current contract for goods, services or works, between you or your partner (or a body in which one of you has a beneficial interest) and the council.

(d) Land - Any beneficial interest in land which is within the council’s area.

(e) Licences- Any licence to occupy land in the council’s area for a month or longer.

(f) Corporate tenancies - Any tenancy between the council and a body in which you or your partner have a beneficial interest.

 (g) Securities - Any beneficial interest in securities of a body which has a place of business or land in the council’s area, if the total nominal value of the securities exceeds £25,000 or one hundredth of the total issued share capital of that body or of any one class of its issued share capital. 

 

This applies to all members present at the meeting.

 

Minutes:

There were no declarations of interest.

215.

The Winchester, 2 Essex Road, N1 8LN - Premises licence review pdf icon PDF 26 MB

Minutes:

The Chair set out the procedures for the meeting as detailed in the agenda papers. The Chair advised that the applicant and interested parties’ representative, the responsible authorities, and the licensee’s representative would each be permitted to address the Sub-Committee for 20 minutes.

 

The Licensing Officer reported that an acoustic consultant report, an additional independent licensing report, and a Parkguard report dated 27 January 2018 had been circulated to the Sub-Committee. 

 

The applicant and interested parties’ representative summarised the key points of the application. These included (i) ‘private nuisance’ (the transfer of noise directly from the premises into an adjoining property) and (ii) the noise and disorder associated with the premises. The applicant’s representative proposed that limiting the premises’ trading hours to midnight would be appropriate and reasonable. The Sub-Committee was advised that the applicant and interested parties supported the conditions proposed by the Noise Team, and in addition suggested that the premises should not be permitted to hold regulated entertainment until matters of noise nuisance were addressed to the satisfaction of the Noise Team.

 

An interested party addressed the Sub-Committee, he was a resident living in a property adjoining the premises. The interested party advised that he had been in contact with the premises about noise disturbance since late 2016. He had commissioned an acoustic report for the premises which had concluded that the premises was operating in excess of its noise limits. It was advised that the premises had since commissioned its own acoustic report, which corroborated the view that insulation and a noise limiter were required.

 

A second interested party addressed the Sub-Committee, he was a resident living in a property near to the premises. He advised that noise nuisance was affecting the sleep of his young son. It was advised that door staff did nothing to stop loud singing in the street, and there had been instances of violent behaviour, drug related crime and car damage near to the premises. It was commented that patrons urinated in the street and when the premises had been asked to clear this up they had not taken action.

 

A member asked for further detail of how the noise nuisance affected local residents’ sleep. In response, an interested party advised that every Friday and Saturday night they were kept awake until 4:00am due to shouting and raised voices.

 

The Licensing Authority advised that the premises was in the Angel and Upper Street cumulative impact area. The view of the Licensing Authority was that the licensee was not demonstrating the high standards of management required by Licensing Policy 8. The Sub-Committee was advised that officers had visited the premises and had spoken to the manager about groups of males congregating outside of the premises, who had advised that he was worried about reprisals if he called the Police. It was noted that the premises had ignored Police advice on the sale of alcohol related to the Arsenal v Tottenham football match, and Tottenham supporters drinking at the premises had  ...  view the full minutes text for item 215.