Agenda and draft minutes

RESOLVED:

          That Councillor Read 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: 

Alex Tomlinson -     Applicant’s Solicitor

Coleen Neville -       Designated Premises Supervisor, The University of Winchester

Other Persons who have made written representations:

Thomas Roy Patterson (representation on page 46)

Statement read out on behalf of Helen Dawson (representation on page 49)

The Licensing Manager introduced the report which set out an application for a new premises licence under section 34 of the Licensing Act 2003 for The University of Winchester, The West Downs Centre, Romey Road, Winchester.

In addition, the Licensing Manager made reference to the supplementary agenda issued following the publication of the agenda pack. This comprised of additional information that had been submitted by the Applicant providing further details regarding the site and its activities.

The original application sought to provide licensable activities as follows:

(a)  Plays (indoors and outdoors), films (indoors and outdoors), indoor sporting events, live music (indoors and outdoors), recorded music (indoors and outdoors), performances of dance (indoors and outdoors), anything of a similar description to live music, recorded music, and performances of dance (indoors and outdoors), all from 1100 hours to 0000 hours.

(b)  Late night refreshment (for consumption on and off the premises) from 2300 hours to 0000 hours.

(c)  Supply of alcohol (for consumption on and off the premises) from 1100 hours to 0000 hours. 

The Sub-Committee were advised that a representation had been received from Environmental Protection as a Responsible Authority in relation to the prevention of public nuisance licensing objective. 11 written representations had been received from ‘Other Persons’ all against the application, One of whom addressed the Sub-Committee and one of whom had submitted a statement to be read on her behalf. These representations were set out in full in Appendix 2 and related to the prevention of public nuisance and the protection of children from harm licensing objectives.

Due to the number of representations received, it was noted that the applicant’s solicitors requested that the Sub-Committee take place outside of the 20 working days requirement under the hearing regulations to allow the applicant to prepare a response to the ‘Other Persons’ and set up a meeting to discuss the application.

Since the consultation period, the applicant’s solicitors had discussed the proposals with Environmental Protection and agreed an amendment to the plan to restrict the licensable area to indoors only; to amend the application to reduce the hours for licensable activities and provide additional conditions, as set out in section 5 of the report. The revised hours for licensable activities were listed as follows:

(a)  Plays (indoors only), films (indoors only), indoor sporting events, live music (indoors only), recorded music (indoors only), performances of dance (indoors only), anything of a similar description to live music, recorded music, and performances of dance (indoors only), all from 1100 hours to 2300 hours.

(b)  Removal of late-night refreshment.

(c)  Supply of alcohol (for consumption on and off the premises) from 1100 hours to 2300 hours.

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