The Committee and Scrutiny Support Officer confirmed that the Sub

Committee would comprise Councillors J Brown, Connal and Jeffree.

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.

Report of the Head of Community and Customer Services

The report asks the Licensing Sub-Committee to consider an application to vary a premises licence 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 also of the representations received.  

The Licensing Officer explained that for one of the representations, a page had been omitted from the agenda.  She passed the relevant page to Mr Phillips who confirmed that he was happy to accept this late information.

The Licensing Officer then outlined the application.  She explained that the Nascot Arms was situated in a mainly residential area in close proximity to a children’s playground.  The only outside space for the premises was a rear courtyard which was used as a smoking area for customers. 

The Licensing Officer advised that the application had been made by Greene King Retailing Limited and that 38 representations had been received from local residents.   She added that a representation had also been received from Environmental Health as a Responsible Authority; this representation had been omitted from the agenda and was passed to attendees although details had been included in the report itself. 

Objections to the application had centred mainly on the impact which the extension of hours would have on local residents: increase in noise, public nuisance and anti-social behaviour. 

The Licensing Officer outlined the extended hours as specified in the report and noted that there was no licence for late night refreshments at the current time.  The Officer then drew attention to Annex 2 of the report and explained that the Applicant had requested the removal of Condition 12 and a condition to be inserted that accompanied children could stay only until 9.00 p.m. unless taking a meal or at a function when they could remain until the end of the meal or event. 

The Licensing Officer further noted that paragraph 7.2 of the report  - Chapter 10 – should read:

 ‘This chapter looks at best practice in relation to conditions that may be attached to a premises licence by the sub-committee, should they believe that these are appropriate to promote the licensing objectives’.

The meeting noted the hours proposed by Environmental Health (paragraph 6.3 of the report) which had been stated under paragraph 10.3 as:

‘No more than five persons will be permitted in the smoking yard between 11:00 p.m. and 9:00 a.m’.

Subsequent to submission of the application there had been discussions between the Applicant and Environmental Health regarding control over potential public nuisance. 

The Licensing Officer noted that since 2010 there had been one complaint regarding public nuisance in that drinks had been taken into the children’s playground, contrary to the licensing objective of preventing harm to children.  The interested parties had also highlighted this concern and the Committee could impose conditions as they thought appropriate and proportionate.

The Licensing Officer mentioned that the applicant had written to residents setting out their proposed concessions and amendments to the application. 

The Licensing Officer highlighted that residents were concerned about crime and disorder.  However, the Police, being expert  ...  view the full minutes text for item 3.