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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

1.

Introductions and procedure

Minutes:

Councillor Nick Wayne welcomed everyone to the meeting and officers and members introduced themselves.  The procedure for the conduct of the meeting was outlined.

 

2.

Apologies for absence

Minutes:

Apologies for absence were received from Councillors Marian Spall and Praful Nargund.

3.

Declarations of substitute members

Minutes:

Councillor Phil Graham substituted for Councillor Marian Spall and Councillor Angelo Weekes substituted for Councillor Praful Nargund.

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:

There were no declarations of interest.

5.

Order of Business

Minutes:

The order of business would be as the agenda.

6.

Minutes of Previous Meeting pdf icon PDF 266 KB

Minutes:

RESOLVED:

That the minutes of the meeting held on 24 March 2022 be confirmed as an accurate record of proceedings and the Chair be authorised to sign them.

7.

Work and Place Space, 111 Seven Sisters Road, N7 7FN - New premises licence pdf icon PDF 3 MB

Minutes:

The licensing officer reported that a meeting had been held with the licensing team, the applicant and residents and in response the applicants had submitted additional conditions.  The applicants had also proposed to reduce hours on Mondays to Wednesdays until 10pm. Residents had also submitted their response to these proposals.

 

Two residents attended the meeting and spoke against the application. One resident stated that this was a residential building. He was keen to see a co working space on the ground floor but the hours were a concern. There had been a party event in the past that had loud music with vibration until after midnight and he went down to complain. During the week the hours of 11pm were late for young couples working and he would like to see the hours reduced to 9pm on weekdays. People had also congregated outside smoking, there had been no limit to the numbers outside and it would be difficult to monitor the noise. The residents would have no recourse and their quality of life degraded. The residents were concerned that they would be left in a worse position than currently with noise from people speaking outside loudly and for long hours.

 

In response to questions, it was noted that there had been no further noise issues from music but residents had heard people speaking outside on a few occasions. At the event held in February, patrons brought their own alcohol. There had been other events that had been held using temporary event notices.

 

The applicant stated that this was a co-working and small scale events business. They would be selling desk space and looking at events supplemented by the retail sale of alcohol including corporate events. This was not a bar, restaurant or club and the sale of alcohol would be ancillary to the core business.  They had accepted conditions from the police and responded to the concerns of residents. They wished to form a dialogue with residents and would look at the outside area for dispersal and smoking.  They had operated a number of temporary events and it was good to hear that there at been minimal disruption arising from these.  Following a meeting with residents, a number of conditions had been proposed and these had been circulated to the Sub-Committee. There were restrictions to the numbers allowed in the building under building control regulations. The main issues were regarding noise. It was considered that, with the hours proposed, the events would not cause additional harm or nuisance.  A 9pm cut off time throughout the week would prohibit events and put them at a competitive disadvantage. They had tried to compromise on the hours proposed by suggesting the 10pm cut off time for Monday to Wednesday.  The planning consent for the ground floor of the premises is retail use so residents would always have some business activity in the building.

 

In response to questions, it was noted that the fire regulations limited 100 occupants at the site. It was expected  ...  view the full minutes text for item 7.

8.

Mr Chans, 21 Clerkenwell Road, EC1M 5RD - New premises licence pdf icon PDF 4 MB

Minutes:

The Sub-Committee noted that this item had been deferred to a future meeting.