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Items
No. Item

1.

Introductions and procedure

Minutes:

Councillor Marian Spall welcomed everyone to the meeting, asked members and officers to introduce themselves and outlined the procedures for the meeting.

2.

Apologies for absence

Minutes:

None.

3.

Declarations of substitute members

Minutes:

None.

4.

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:

None.

5.

Order of Business

Minutes:

Items B7 and B8 had been deferred and therefore Item B9 was the only item to be considered.

6.

Minutes of Previous Meeting pdf icon PDF 252 KB

Minutes:

 

RESOLVED:

 

That the minutes of the meeting held on 8 April 2014 be confirmed as an accurate record of proceedings and the Chair be authorised to sign them.

7.

Menelik, 277 Caledonian Road, N1 1EF - Premises Licence Review pdf icon PDF 12 MB

Minutes:

 

RESOLVED:

That consideration of this item be deferred to a future meeting.

8.

Marathon, 193A Caledonian Road, N1 1EF - Premises Licence Review pdf icon PDF 10 MB

Minutes:

 

RESOLVED:

That consideration of this item be deferred to a future meeting.

 

9.

Tierra, 45 Stroud Green Road, N4 3EF - New Premises Licence pdf icon PDF 6 MB

Minutes:

The licensing officer reported that the resident who had made representation was not in attendance.

 

Mr Fallahnia, the applicant, stated that he was purchasing the premises which was previously an unlicensed restaurant called Mezbaan. He wanted a premises licence to enable him to sell alcohol to customers. There would be no vertical drinking and alcohol would only be sold for consumption in the premises. He also stated that he had two Spanish restaurants in Haringey and they both closed at 11pm with doors being closed at 12am. He did not anticipate people leaving in large numbers, used a number of taxi firms and asked customers to remain in the restaurant until their taxis arrived.

 

The applicant had agreed that deliveries would only take place between 10am and 5pm and not on Sundays or bank holidays and confirmed that he would not be playing loud music in the restaurant. He considered that having more restaurants in the area where people would drink alcohol with a meal would reduce alcohol related crime in the area.

 

In response to questions from members the applicant stated that he would be selling good quality Spanish wine and that during the last 14 years operating his other Spanish restaurants, there had been no alcohol related problems nor noise issues. He would possibly have a delicatessen in part of the premises and alcohol would not be sold there as the licence would be for the consumption of alcohol on the premises only. The licensing officer confirmed that there was an error on page 109 of the agenda and the licence was not for consumption of alcohol off the premises.

 

RESOLVED:

 

1)    That the application for a new premises licence in respect of Tierra, 45 Stroud Green Road, N4 3EF be granted to allow the sale of alcohol for consumption on the premises from 12:00 to 23:00 on Monday to Saturday and 12:00 to 10:30 on Sundays.

 

2)    That the conditions as outlined in appendix 4 as detailed on pages 132 and 133 of the agenda be applied to the licence.

 

REASONS FOR DECISION

The Sub-Committee listened to all the evidence and submissions and read all the material. The Sub-Committee reached the decision having given consideration to the Licensing Act 2003, as amended, and its regulations, the national guidance and the Council’s Licensing Policy.

 

The Sub-Committee took into consideration Licensing Policy 002.  The premises fall under the Holloway and Finsbury Park cumulative impact area.  Licensing policy 002 creates a rebuttable presumption that applications for new premises licences that are likely to add to the existing cumulative impact will normally be refused, unless an applicant can demonstrate why the operation of the premises involved will not add to the cumulative impact or otherwise impact adversely on the promotion of the licensing objectives.

 

The Sub-Committee noted that the applicant had addressed all the points raised by the responsible authorities and that there were no responsible authority representations before the Sub-Committee. The Licensing Sub-Committee noted that there was one  ...  view the full minutes text for item 9.