Agenda and minutes

Councillor Poole welcomed everyone to the meeting and informed those present that the procedure was as detailed in the agenda.

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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.

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The order of business was as the agenda.

RESOLVED:

That the minutes of the meeting held on the 14 April 2015 be confirmed as a correct record of proceedings and the Chair be authorised to sign them.

The licensing officer reported that conditions had been received from the applicant yesterday. These would be interleaved with the agenda papers. The licensing officer informed the Sub-Committee that the new conditions had been submitted very late in the day and appeared to be significantly different to those in the report. He asked the Sub-Committee to consider whether they wished to consider them, bearing in mind they had not been considered by the responsible authorities. He advised that the meeting could be adjourned in order that the applicant could resubmit a new application and give all the parties the opportunity to give the new conditions full consideration.

The applicant’s representative reported that the new conditions had been drawn up to meet the concerns of residents and aimed to restrict the licence. He appreciated the short notice given to all parties.

The Sub-Committee adjourned for five minutes to consider the additional conditions.

On return the applicant’s representative reported that he agreed with all of the conditions in Appendix 3 of the report excluding condition 6.  He reported which of the tabled conditions were new, stated that the police condition regarding CCTV could be used and also offered an additional condition that the licence would be surrendered when Wallacespace vacated the building.

The licensing officer stated that he had not been able to go through the conditions but raised concerns regarding the number of patrons in the premises.  He also reported that a resident had requested that the terrace on the 4^th floor not be used and doors and windows be kept closed.  He also stated that the planning officer had stated that the ground floor and basement had been granted change of use in 2011 to part A1 (shop), part A3 (café) alongside existing B1 use.

A local resident raised a concern regarding the planning permission granted and reported that there was an expectation for planning permission to be in place prior to a licensing application. The legal officer advised that the premises could not be used until the correct planning use had been put in place.

A resident did not consider that the applicant had met the burden of proof regarding cumulative impact and stated that there would be increased traffic from both pedestrians and vehicles. She stated that other similar businesses in the area had licences until 9pm and had no licences for the use of their terraces.  She asked that the licence be restricted to 9pm and only on Mondays-Fridays, that there be no events or parties, alcohol be ancillary to food, that the maximum number of persons be restricted and that the applicant should demonstrate that there would be no cumulative impact. It was reported that offices were mainly shut at the weekends and a grant of this application would be the thin end of the wedge. Condition 6 in the appendix should be amended in order that food or a full meal be required with alcohol. It was considered strongly that the use of the terrace  ...  view the full minutes text for item 72.