Agenda and minutes

Agenda and minutes

Venue: Town Hall, Watford

Contact: Jodie Kloss/Alan Garside  Email: legalanddemocratic@watford.gov.uk

Items
No. Item

25.

Committee membership/ election of a Chair

Minutes:

The Committee and Scrutiny Support Officer confirmed that the Sub Committee would comprise Councillors Derbyshire, Jeffree and Mills.

 

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

 

RESOLVED –

 

                   that Councillor Jeffree be elected Chair for this Hearing.

 

 

26.

Disclosure of interests (if any)

Minutes:

There were no disclosures of interest.

 

27.

Application for new premises licence: Watford Superstore, 43 - 45 Market Street, Watford WD18 0PN (15/00207/LAPRE) pdf icon PDF 68 KB

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Application for a new Premises Licence to allow alcohol sales for consumption off the premises between 0800 hours and midnight each day.

 

 

Additional documents:

Minutes:

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

 

                   The Licensing Manager introduced the report.  He explained that the application was for off sales of alcohol at a convenience store in Market Street; a pertinent location.  He said that the applicant had made a late modification to the application proposing that the opening hours now be 0800 – 2300 Monday to Saturday and 0800 – 2230 on a Sunday.  Further conditions had also been proposed by the applicant and these had been provided to the parties at the hearing.  He explained that the Police and Licensing Authority had made representations with regard to the application.  The Licensing Authority had made these due to the premises being located in a Sensitive Licensing Area where there was a concentration of licensed premises and concerns around street drinking and anti-social behaviour; these were also concerns of the Police.  He explained that the Sensitive Licensing Area meant that the Committee could impose stringent conditions in furtherance of the Licensing Objectives.  He explained that a list of Interested Parties could be found at Appendix 5a of the report; with a representation from 29 Apple Tree Walk, Watford, contained therein, subsequently withdrawn.  This meant that there were now forty-five Interested Party representations remaining.  Four further representations were rejected by officers as the interested parties resided some distance from the premises – such as in Tring and Oxhey.  It was therefore up to the Sub-Committee to decide what weight they attached to these latter four representations.

The Licensing Manager outlined that any issues of lack of demand, need or competition, mentioned in any representations, were not relevant to the Sub-Committee’s considerations.  But issues of crime and disorder and anti-social behaviour were highly relevant.  He explained that Police representations dealt with issues around street drinkers and that Market Street had suffered with street drinker problems previously; hence the introduction of the Sensitive Licensing Area.  There was no wish to see these problems resurrected.  He re-emphasised that stringent licensing conditions could be applied. 

 

The Licensing Manager explained that the applicant had proposed a number of new conditions; although the Sub-Committee might consider that these were not sufficient.  This could be resolved by imposing additional conditions.  He outlined the provisions in paragraph 10.7 of the report and explained that some of the applicant’s suggested conditions might duplicate those already contained in the report.  However, the applicant was content with the conditions, as proposed by the Licensing Authority, in Annex 1 and Annex 2 of the report. 

 

The Chair asked if there were any questions.  There were none.

 

Detective Sergeant Brown presented the representation for Hertfordshire Constabulary.  She read the representation at page 19 of the report.   She then outlined a number of incidents contained in the Police incident report documents within the report relating to street drinkers.  She said that these had an impact on local businesses.  She gave examples of  ...  view the full minutes text for item 27.

 

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