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Items
No. Item

1.

Introductions and procedure

Minutes:

Councillor Gary Poole welcomed everyone to the meeting and asked members and officers to introduce themselves.  He stated that the procedure for the meeting was in the printed agenda.

2.

Apologies for absence

Minutes:

Apologies were received from Councillor Michelline Ngongo.

3.

Declarations of substitute members

Minutes:

Councillor Picknell substituted for Councillor Ngongo.

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:

The order of business would be as the agenda.

6.

Marathon, 193A Caledonian Road, N1 1EF pdf icon PDF 10 MB

Minutes:

The licensing officer tabled a map of the area which would be interleaved with the agenda papers.

 

The police representative, Rory Clark, reported that there had been a number of violent incidents both inside and outside the venue.  He invited the Sub-Committee to consider all options open to them but stated that, at a very minimum, they would recommend that hours be reduced to restaurant hours and that a condition be added to the licence so that alcohol was ancillary to table meals.  

He highlighted the incidents on page 9 of the agenda and it was noted that conditions had been imposed in June 2012 following a review hearing.  Following the review in June 2012, the licensee was invited to a Licensing Officer Panel in November 2012 where he told the panel that he had not completed the membership scheme as his customers were reluctant to give their details.  A review was again lodged in May 2014 following a strong record of problems and breaches of conditions. This included a record from one visit from the police noting that only one person acting as door supervisor was present at the premises whose SIA licence had expired, when three were conditioned.

Mr Tesfa had not made any changes since the previous review.  A proposal for a membership scheme had only been submitted to the Sub-Committee and the police on the day of this meeting. This would be interleaved with the agenda papers. The intention of the membership condition imposed after the review in June 2012 had been to limit the club to members and to trace and control the patrons entering the venue. It was suggested that the continual failure of management meant that revocation was an option for the Sub-Committee.

 

The noise officer reported that the noise team had visited in November 2013 to watch customers leaving the premises and in January 2014 to measure sound levels.  At the visit in January 2014 the sound limiter had been disconnected, which was a breach of condition.

 

The Licensing Authority reported that an action plan had been drawn up and a way forward suggested in order that the licensing objectives be promoted.  The licensee had provided details of the membership scheme but nothing had actually been implemented. There had not been a proactive approach to management that was expected for this type of premises.  It would be part of management responsibility to ensure that door supervisors carried a current licence.  It had been suggested that hours be reduced to restaurant hours through the submission of a minor variation, but this had not been progressed by the licensee.

 

Mr Aylott, representing the licensee, reported that there had been no crime in the area for the past 7 months.  There was nothing to say that all crime was linked to the premises.  With reference to CAD NI/1056 he reported that the troublemakers had not been customers of the premises and the police had been called to help remove them.  The police have been  ...  view the full minutes text for item 6.

7.

Menelik, 277 Caledonian Road, N1 1EF pdf icon PDF 13 MB

Minutes:

The Sub-Committee noted that this item had been adjourned.