Agenda and minutes

The Committee and Scrutiny Support Officer confirmed that the Sub-Committee would comprise Councillors J Brown, G Derbyshire and M Meerabux.

The Sub-Committee was asked to elect a Chair for the Hearing.

RESOLVED –

that Councillor J Brown be elected Chair for this Hearing.

There were no disclosures of interest.

This report asks the Sub-Committee to consider an application to vary the licence at the above premises following the receipt of representations.

The Sub-Committee received a report of the Head of Community and Customer Services setting out details of an application to vary the premises licence at the above premises and the representations received.

The Licensing Officer introduced the report. She advised that the application had been made by the premises licence holder, Luminar Ltd, to extend the hours of licensable activities at Oceana on six special days as set out in the report as well as Sundays preceding bank holidays. She outlined the changes to the hours requested for different licensable activities. Two representations had been received, both of which related to public nuisance. She added that on the special days requested the sale of alcohol would be for consumption on the premises only.

Mr Jonathan Smith, Solicitor for Oceana, noted that the request in respect of Sundays preceding bank holidays only related to extending the hours for regulated entertainment by half an hour. There would be no extension in opening hours, sale of alcohol or late night refreshment.

Mr Smith presented the case for the Applicant. He clarified his explanation of the change requested for Sundays preceding bank holidays. He referred the Sub-Committee to page 20 of the agenda which provided a copy of Oceana’s licence and the relevant paragraph outlining the hours. The premises were seeking the extension of their hours by 30 minutes for regulated entertainment which was the performance of live music, recorded music and performance of dance.

He explained that the Applicant was also seeking to extend their hours on six notable days: Halloween, Christmas Eve, St Andrew’s Day, St David’s Day, St George’s Day and St Patrick’s Day. The new terminal hours sought on these days were as follows:

• Sale of alcohol - 0300
• Regulated entertainment - 0330
• Premises open to the public and late night refreshment - 0400

If the six notable days fell on a Monday, Thursday, Friday or Saturday, there was no extension required as the premises already had those hours on the licence. If the six notable days fell on a Tuesday or a Wednesday, the sale of alcohol would be extended by an additional hour. If the days fell on a Sunday, the terminal hour for the sale of alcohol would be extended by two and a half hours. Under the application, there would be a maximum of six extensions a year to the hours. It depended on which day of the week the notable days fell. He advised that the next time Halloween would fall on a Sunday would be 2021.  He summarised that on the six days in question, where they fell outside Monday, Thursday, Friday or Saturday, the premises would like to be able to operate to the same hours. He noted that on average, the variation would allow the premises to open for an additional three hours per year.

He reported that Oceana had had a temporary event notice (TEN) on Christmas Eve in 2013 to allow the hours requested under this application. There were no  ...  view the full minutes text for item 30.