Agenda and draft minutes

RESOLVED:

                     That Councillor Laming be confirmed as Chairperson for                  the meeting.

To receive any disclosure of interests from Members and Officers in matters to be discussed.

Note: Councillors are reminded of their obligations to declare disclosable pecuniary interests, personal and/or prejudicial interests in accordance with legislation and the Council’s Code of Conduct.

There were no disclosure of interests made at this meeting.

The Chairperson welcomed all those present to the meeting:

Applicant: 

Rehan Rehman

Responsible Authorities:

PC Brian Swallow – Hampshire Constabulary (representation set out in Appendix 2 to the report)

Other Persons:

Craig Friswell – General Manager of Alfies public house (representation set out in Appendix 3 to the report)

The Licensing Manager introduced the report which set out an application for the variation of a premises licence under section 34 of the Licensing Act 2003 for Subway, 165 High Street, Winchester.  The application was to offer late night refreshment (indoors only) Thursday to Saturday 2300 to 0400 the next day (application set out in Appendix 1 of the report).   The premises was currently licensed under a Premises Licence for late night refreshment (indoors only); Sunday and Monday 2300 to 0000, Tuesday and Wednesday 2300 to 0100 and Thursday to Saturday 2300 to 0200.  The application did not request to amend the hours for late night refreshment Sunday to Wednesday.  Apart from the Mandatory Conditions, there were no premises specific conditions on the current Premises Licence.

The Licensing Manager advised that the applicant’s referral to security guards at Alfies (a nearby premises) as part of their application in connection with the prevention of crime and disorder had been disregarded because any security at other licensed premises was not relevant to the current application.

The Sub-Committee were advised that a representation had been received from Hampshire Constabulary as a Responsible Authority objecting to the application on the grounds the prevention of crime and disorder, public safety and the prevention of public nuisance (representation set out in Appendix 2 of the report).  One written representation had been received from “Other Persons” as an interested party (set out in Appendix 3 of the report) and related to the prevention of crime and disorder, public safety and the prevention of public nuisance.

In conclusion, the Licensing Manager advised the Sub-Committee that, if minded to grant the application, there were conditions to consider, as set out in Section 5 of the report, which the Sub-Committee could consider and amend as appropriate to promote the licensing objectives. The Sub-Committee were reminded that they should discuss any additional conditions they may wish to consider during the hearing to enable the applicant the opportunity to respond and explain how this may affect their business operation.

In response to questions of the Sub-Committee, Litigation and Licensing Solicitor confirmed that other premises licensing hours were not relevant to the current application.

At the invitation of the Chairperson, the applicant, Rehan Rehman addressed the Sub-Committee to set out the application and responded to questions. For clarification, the applicant advised that the premises did not rely on Alfies security guards, but that they had assisted on one occasion when a radio call was made requesting assistance.  Safety and other general training was provided to staff via an online training resource operated by Subways.  Rehan Rehman advised that during the requested extension to licensing hours customers could chose to eat food purchased on the  ...  view the full minutes text for item 3.