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Cafe Royal Hotel, 8 Air Street, W1

 

 

Meeting: 31/03/2016 - Licensing Sub-Committee (4) (Item 4)

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App

No

Ward/ Cumulative Impact Area

Site Name and Address

Application

Licensing Reference Number

2.

West End Ward / West End Cumulative Impact Area 

Café Royal Hotel, 8 Air Street, W1

Variation

16/01324/LIPV

 

 

 

Minutes:

LICENSING SUB-COMMITTEE No. 4

Thursday 31st March 2016

 

Membership:              Councillor Jean-Paul Floru (Chairman), Councillor Nick Evans and Councillor Murad Gassanly

 

Legal Adviser:             Horatio Chance

Policy Adviser:            Chris Wroe

Committee Officer:     Jonathan Deacon

Presenting Officer:     Nick Nelson

 

Relevant Representations:         Environmental Health, Metropolitan Police and the Soho Society.

 

Present:  Mr Alun Thomas (Solicitor, representing the Applicant), Mr Anil Drayan (Environmental Health) and PC Bryan Lewis (Metropolitan Police)

 

Café Royal Hotel, 8 Air Street, W1

16/01324/LIPV

 

1.

To vary the existing premises licence so as to remove and amend the following conditions in relation to the second floor Pompadour Suite:

 

Remove

 

·           Condition 42 – There shall be no loudspeakers provided to the External Balcony area.

·           Condition 43 – All doors to the external balcony area shall be kept closed after 24:00 hours except for immediate access and egress.

 

Amend

 

From

 

Condition 44 – No drinks shall be permitted in the external balcony area after 24:00 hours.

 

To

 

No drinks shall be permitted in the external balcony area after 03:00 hours.

 

 

 

Amendments to application advised at hearing:

 

 

Mr Thomas, representing the Applicant, informed the Sub-Committee that in respect of condition 43 on the existing licence, an alternative had been proposed by the Council’s Environmental Health Department (“Environmental Health”) that ‘where there is regulated entertainment in the Pompadour Suite, all doors to the external balcony shall be kept closed after midnight except for immediate access and egress’.  This had been agreed by the Applicant.

 

 

Decision (including reasons if different from those set out in report):

 

 

The Sub-Committee noted that licensable activities had first been permitted at Café Royal Hotel, Air Street in September 2012.  Mr Thomas referred to conditions being attached to the premises licence at that time which limited the use of the external balcony area.  Conditions had been discussed between the Applicant and Environmental Health prior to the September 2012 hearing and subsequently attached to the licence which prevented regulated entertainment and loudspeakers in the external balcony area.  They also required the doors to this area to be kept closed after 11pm.  The Sub-Committee considered it appropriate and reasonable at that time to attach the condition to the licence on the basis that the consumption of alcohol would not be permitted in the external balcony area after midnight.

 

Mr Thomas stated that the Hotel had operated six Temporary Event Notices with use of the external balcony area to 03:00 hours.  These events had all taken place without any issues being raised and his clients were now seeking to regularise the position.  Typical pre-booked events that the Applicant wished to hold in the Pompadour Suite and allow customers who were not residents of the Hotel to use the terrace where functions such as weddings and birthday parties are held. 

 

Mr Thomas addressed the Sub-Committee specifically on the three conditions which the Applicant had proposed to remove or amend.  He commented that Environmental Health was not believed to be objecting to the proposed removal of condition 42 on the existing premises licence.  In response to  ...  view the full minutes text for item 4