Items
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Membership
To report any changes to the membership.
Minutes:
There were no changes to the membership.
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Declarations of Interest
To receive declarations by
Members and Officers of any personal or prejudicial interests in
matters on this agenda.
Minutes:
There were no declarations of interest.
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85 Piccadilly, W1 PDF 3 MB
App
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Ward /
Cumulative
Impact Area
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Site Name and
Address
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Application
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Licensing Reference
Number
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1.
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West End Ward / not in
cumulative impact area
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85 Piccadilly,
W1
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New
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17/01572/LIPN
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Additional documents:
Minutes:
LICENSING SUB-COMMITTEE No. 2
Thursday
27th April 2017
Membership:
Councillor Tim Mitchell (Chairman), Councillor Louise Hyams and
Councillor Aziz Toki
Legal
Adviser:
Barry Panto
Policy
Adviser:
Chris Wroe
Committee Officer:
Jonathan Deacon
Presenting Officer: Heidi Lawrance
Relevant Representations: Environmental
Health and 22 x local residents.
Present: Mr Stephen Walsh QC
(Representing the Applicant), Mr Alun Thomas (Solicitor, on behalf
of the Applicant), Ms Tatiana Fokina (Director and Chief Executive
Officer, Applicant Company), Mr Lee Starling (Project Manager), Mr
Ollie Dabbous (Head Chef), Mr Oskar Kinberg (Premises Manager) and
Mr Adrian Studd (Licensing Consultant), Mr Dave Nevitt
(Environmental Health), Mr Richard Brown (Solicitor, Citizens
Advice Bureau Licensing Advice Project, representing 16 residents),
Mr Andrew Jones (representing himself as local resident, residents
of 85 Piccadilly/47 Clarges Street, 89 Piccadilly and 17 Clarges
Street), Ms Laura Hodgson, Mr Thomas Jones and Mr Huw Jones (local
residents).
85
Piccadilly, W1
17/01572/LIPN
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1.
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Late
Night Refreshment (Indoors)
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Monday to Saturday:
23:00 to 01:00
Sunday:
23:00 to 23:30
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Amendments to application
advised at hearing:
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None.
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Decision (including reasons if
different from those set out in report):
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The Sub-Committee
heard from Mr Walsh, representing the Applicant. He explained that the information relating to the
planning application had been submitted as part of the report
because many of the objections from residents were of a planning
nature. The report included sound
attenuation information. The view on
behalf of the Applicant was that the granting of planning
permission in 2013 was material to the current
application. The planning permission
was for the use of the basement, ground and mezzanine floors as a
restaurant and included the location of the main
entrance. The planning application
permitted a capacity of 330 and a closing time of
01:00. Mr Walsh advised that the
Applicant was seeking a capacity of 250 and closure at
01:00. The sale of alcohol was sought
until 00:40.
Mr Walsh referred to
the premises history, including that the building had been
constructed in 1970. Permission for
restaurant use had been granted at ground and mezzanine floor level
and nightclub use had been granted at basement level. These premises had traded on this basis until 2011
when the nightclub licence was revoked.
However, the planning status for the basement remained as a
nightclub until the 2013 planning application. There was a car park level which separated
residents from the restaurants and nightclub.
Mr Walsh advised the
Sub-Committee that the Applicant Company, Hedonism Drinks Limited,
is a fine wine merchant with a wine shop in Davies Street,
Mayfair. Following the granting of
planning permission, £10m had been invested already in the
premises with £5m being spent on acquisition and £5m on
internal and external improvements, including triple glazing and
sound attenuation measures. A further £9m to £10m was
due to be spent on the operation.
Mr Walsh stated that
assurances had been made to the Council that the premises would
operate as a fine dining restaurant.
The Applicant had waited to make an application until they had a
chef and ... view
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Crocker's Folly, 24 Aberdeen Place, NW8 PDF 512 KB
App
No
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Ward /
Cumulative
Impact Area
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Site Name and
Address
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Application
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Licensing Reference
Number
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2.
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Regent’s Park
Ward / not in cumulative impact area
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Crocker’s Folly,
24 Aberdeen Place, NW8
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Variation
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17/00767/LIPV
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Minutes:
LICENSING SUB-COMMITTEE No. 2
Thursday
27th April 2017
Membership:
Councillor Tim Mitchell (Chairman), Councillor Louise Hyams and
Councillor Aziz Toki
Legal
Adviser:
Barry Panto
Policy
Adviser:
Chris Wroe
Committee Officer:
Jonathan Deacon
Presenting Officer: Heidi Lawrance
Relevant Representations: Environmental
Health, 2 Ward Councillors and 15 local residents.
Present: Mr John Lisle (Solicitor,
representing the Applicant), Mr Anil Drayan (Environmental Health),
Mr Richard Brown (Solicitor, Citizens Advice Bureau Licensing
Advice Project, representing 4 residents – Dr Alan Roth, Mrs
Stefanie Roth, Mrs Anna Sinclair and Ms Jendy Whitten Ziben)
and Dr Alan Roth, Mrs Stefanie Roth and Mr Jon Peters (local
residents).
Crocker’s Folly, 24 Aberdeen Place, NW8
17/00767/LIPV
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1.
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Conditions being varied, added or removed
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Condition
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Proposed
variation
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Condition
24:
After 21:00 hours
patrons permitted to temporarily leave and then re-enter the
premises, e.g.to smoke, shall not be permitted to take drinks or
glass containers with them.
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Condition 24:
After 23:00 hours patrons permitted
to temporarily leave and then re-enter the premises, e.g to smoke, shall not be permitted to take drinks
or glass containers with them.
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Condition 26:
After 21:00 hours
patrons permitted to temporarily leave and then re-enter the
premises, e.g to smoke, shall be
limited to 10 persons at any one time.
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Condition 26:
After 23:00 hours patrons permitted
to temporarily leave and then re-enter the premises, e.g to smoke, shall be limited to 10 persons at any
one time.
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Condition 27:
All outside tables
and chairs shall be rendered unusable by 21:00 hours and the
external area to the left of the entrance door as you face the
premises shall be rendered unusable by 19:00 hours each day.
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Condition 27:
All outside tables and chairs shall
be rendered unusable by 23:00 hours and the external area to the
left of the entrance door as you face the premises shall be
rendered unusable by 19:00 hours each day.
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Condition 29:
No waste or
recyclable materials, including bottles, shall be moved, removed or
placed in outside areas between 21:00 hours and 08:00 hours.
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Condition 29:
No waste or recyclable materials,
including bottles, shall be moved, removed or placed in outside
areas between 23:00 hours and 08:00 hours.
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Amendments to application
advised at hearing:
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None.
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Decision (including reasons if
different from those set out in report):
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Mr Lisle, representing
the Applicant, explained that the purpose of the application was to
extend the hours for the use of the external area to the right of
the entrance door. It was currently
permitted until 21:00 hours and the Applicant was seeking a
terminal hour of 23:00. Mr Lisle
informed Members that the Applicant had been running the premises
for two years and it was not a profitable enterprise. Crocker’s Folly did not open on
Mondays. The additional two hours would
make a difference.
Mr Lisle stated that
his client accepted that the use of the external area to the left
of the entrance door should not be extended beyond 19:00 hours
because of the location of the local residents. However, ...
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Foxlow, 8-10 Lower James Street, W1 PDF 10 MB
App
No
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Ward /
Cumulative
Impact Area
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Site Name and
Address
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Application
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Licensing Reference
Number
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3.
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West End Ward / West
End Cumulative Impact Area
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Foxlow, 8-10 Lower James Street,
W1
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Variation
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17/02305/LIPV
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Minutes:
LICENSING SUB-COMMITTEE No. 2
Thursday
27th April 2017
Membership:
Councillor Tim Mitchell (Chairman), Councillor Louise Hyams and
Councillor Aziz Toki
Legal
Adviser:
Barry Panto
Policy
Adviser:
Chris Wroe
Committee Officer:
Jonathan Deacon
Presenting Officer: Heidi Lawrance
Relevant Representations: Environmental
Health, the Licensing Authority, the Soho Society and 2 local
residents.
Present: Mr Thomas O’Maoileoin
(Solicitor, representing the Applicant), Ms Ayesha Bolton
(Environmental Health) and Mr Steve Rowe (Licensing
Authority)
Foxlow, 8-10 Lower
James Street, W1
17/02305/LIPV
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1.
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Late
Night Refreshment (Indoors)
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From
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To
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Monday to Thursday
23:00 to 23:30
Friday and Saturday
23:00 to 00:00
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Monday to Thursday
23:00 to 23:30
Friday and Saturday
23:00 to 01:00
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Amendments to application
advised at hearing:
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None.
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Decision (including reasons if
different from those set out in report):
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The Sub-Committee
heard from Mr O’Maoileoin, representing the
Applicant. He informed the
Sub-Committee that Foxlow at 8-10 Lower
James Street was due to open shortly (8 May 2017). He referred to the fact that an application for
the premises had been granted Core Hours by the Sub-Committee in
June 2016 and the conditions attached to the premises licence had
included the Council’s model restaurant condition,
MC66.
Mr O’Maoileoin
stated that Foxlow is part of the
Hawksmoor group and he described it as
a neighbourhood premises with a slightly cheaper menu than the
Hawksmoor restaurants. He drew Members’ attention to there being
Foxlow restaurants in Balham, Chiswick
and Clerkenwell. There were also a number of Hawksmoor premises across London. In relation to Westminster there are two
Hawksmoor restaurants at Langley Street
(Seven Dials) and Air Street. Mr
O’Maoileoin commented that the two Westminster restaurants at
Langley Street and Air Street were permitted to open until the
proposed terminal hour sought for 8-10 Lower James Street and had
limited bar use.
Mr O’Maoileoin
emphasised that a number of the Hawksmoor/Foxlow
premises are located in residential areas and that management have
a good relationship with residents. He
stated that an example of a good relationship with residents is
with Covent Garden Community Association in respect of the Seven
Dials premises. Mr O’Maoileoin
advised the Sub-Committee that Liz Callingham who often expresses
concerns about applications for new licensed premises in the West
End Cumulative Impact Area had discussed this particular
application at 8-10 Lower James Street with Foxlow representatives and her concerns in relation
to this application had been addressed.
She had not maintained her representation. Mr O’Maoileoin explained that Mrs
Callingham’s concerns for the
current application had been in relation to customer dispersal
potentially causing a nuisance and that the establishment did not
become a bar. The application had been
amended following discussions with her. A condition had been offered that on
Fridays and Saturdays the area immediately outside the restaurant
would be monitored by staff so as to ensure that customers leave
quietly. He believed that it was significant that
Mrs Callingham was likely to be the nearest resident to 8-10 Lower
James Street and she had withdrawn her representation.
Mr O’Maoileoin
addressed ...
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Leon, Astoria House, 62 Shaftesbury Avenue, W1 - APPLICATION NOW ADJOURNED TO A FUTURE MEETING
App
No
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Ward /
Cumulative
Impact Area
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Site Name and
Address
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Application
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Licensing Reference
Number
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4.
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St James’s Ward
/ West End Cumulative Impact Area
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Leon, Astoria House,
62 Shaftesbury Avenue, W1
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New
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17/01088/LIPN
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Minutes:
LICENSING SUB-COMMITTEE No. 2
Thursday
27th April 2017
Membership:
Councillor Tim Mitchell (Chairman), Councillor Louise Hyams and
Councillor Aziz Toki
Legal
Adviser:
Barry Panto
Policy
Adviser:
Chris Wroe
Committee Officer:
Jonathan Deacon
Leon,
Astoria House, 62 Shaftesbury Avenue, W1
17/01088/LIPN
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Application adjourned to a
future meeting date.
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