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Items
No. Item

1.

Membership

To report any changes to the membership and to appoint a Chairman.

Minutes:

There were no changes to the Membership.

2.

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.

3.

Mubao Beauty Ltd, 26 Wardour Street, W1 pdf icon PDF 914 KB

App

No

Ward

Site Name and Address

Application

Licensing Reference Number

1.

St James’s Ward / not in cumulative impact area

Mubao Beauty Ltd, 26 Wardour Street, W1

New Special Treatment Licence

16/11243/LIMSTN

 

 

 

 

Minutes:

LICENSING SUB-COMMITTEE No. 6

Thursday 29th June 2017

 

Membership:              Councillor Jean Paul Floru (Chairman) and Councillor Aziz Toki

 

Legal Adviser:             Barry Panto

Policy Adviser:            Chris Wroe

Committee Officer:     Jonathan Deacon

Presenting Officer:     Steve Rowe

 

Relevant Representations: City Inspectors

 

Present:  Mr Richard Barca (Solicitor, representing the Applicant), Ms Ping Liang (Director, Applicant Company), Ms Frances Vann (proposed full time manager of premises), Mr Francis Keegan and Mr Tim Butterfield (City Inspectors).

 

Mubao Beauty Ltd, Basement, 26 Wardour Street, W1

16/11243/LIMSTN

 

 

 

Application: New special treatment licence to allow massage and facials to be provided at the premises to men and women during separate sessions.

 

To provide the massage treatment from 11:00 until 00:00 on every day of the week (including Sunday).

 

The application is determined under Part 2 of the London Local Authorities Act 1991.

 

 

Amendments to application advised at hearing:

 

 

None.

 

 

 

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

 

 

Mr Rowe, in presenting the item, clarified that the ground floor at 26 Wardour Street had previously been licensed and not the basement which is the subject of the application for the new special treatment licence.

 

The Sub-Committee heard from Mr Barca, representing the Applicant.  He confirmed that his client, Ms Liang, is not a fluent English speaker.  This was a concern of the City Inspectors.  Mr Barca informed the Sub-Committee that in order to address this issue, Ms Vann was being put forward as the proposed full time manager of the premises.  He added that she is an experienced massage practitioner and would be able to assist at the current hearing as a translator for Ms Liang. 

 

Mr Barca had submitted additional papers which included Ms Liang’s qualifications.  Ms Liang with the assistance of Ms Vann provided the information that she had been practising for nine years and held licences at two other premises which had been granted by Camden Council.

 

Ms Liang in response to an allegation from the City Inspectors accepted that the basement premises had been open before the licence, currently being applied for, had been granted.  This was, she stated, due to a misunderstanding.  She had believed that she was able to carry out waxing treatments at this stage.  She had not been required to have licensing hearings in respect of the two licences she had been granted by Camden Council.

 

Ms Liang with the assistance of Ms Vann gave an explanation as to why the licence on the ground floor had been surrendered in 2016.  The ground floor had been shared with a hair salon.  There had been a complaint from the hairdressers that the chair massage treatment being provided by Ms Liang to customers at the front of the premises was impacting adversely on their business at the back of the premises.  Ms Liang had decided not to proceed with her treatment.

 

The City Inspectors had proposed a condition that at all times of trading there would be a duty manager within the venue who is authorised by the licence  ...  view the full minutes text for item 3.

4.

Hard Rock Cafe, Ground and Lower Floor, 225-229 Piccadilly, W1 pdf icon PDF 1 MB

App

No

Ward

Site Name and Address

Application

Licensing Reference Number

2.

St James’s Ward / West End Cumulative Impact Area

Hard Rock Café, Ground and Lower Floor, 225-229 Piccadilly, W1

New Premises Licence – Licensing Act 2003

17/04470/LIPN

 

 

 

 

Additional documents:

Minutes:

LICENSING SUB-COMMITTEE No. 6

Thursday 29th June 2017

 

Membership:              Councillor Jean Paul Floru (Chairman) and Councillor Aziz Toki

 

Legal Adviser:             Barry Panto

Policy Adviser:            Chris Wroe

Committee Officer:     Jonathan Deacon

Presenting Officer:     Heidi Lawrance

 

Relevant Representations: Metropolitan Police and Licensing Authority

 

Present:  Mr Philip Kolvin QC (representing the Applicant), Mr Niall McCann (Solicitor, on behalf of the Applicant), Ms Karen Burke (Director of Operations Europe Central, Applicant Company), PC Bryan Lewis (Metropolitan Police) and Mr Steve Rowe (Licensing Authority).

 

Hard Rock Café, Ground and Lower Floor, 225-229 Piccadilly, W1

17/04470/LIPN

 

1.

Late Night Refreshment (Indoors)

 

 

Monday to Thursday:                            23:00 to 01:00

Friday to Saturday:                               23:00 to 02:00

Sunday:                                                 23:00 to 01:00

 

 

 

Amendments to application advised at hearing:

 

 

None.

 

 

 

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

 

 

Ms Lawrance and Mr Kolvin initially advised the Sub-Committee that the representation from McKinsey & Company – Real Estate had been withdrawn.  Mr Kolvin informed those present that the Applicant had agreed to liaise with McKinsey & Company during building works.  They had been concerned about noise transmission. The objectors occupied office space on the first floor above the subject premises but the members noted that the applicant had now indicated that there would not be any licensable activities on the ground floor.

 

Mr Kolvin described 225-229 Piccadilly as a very significant flagship venue for the Applicant.  He stated that taking the Council’s cumulative impact area policies into account, the Applicant was proposing that there would be no licensable activities on the ground floor.  Passers-by would see that this floor is a family friendly retail café venue.  The restaurant would be in the basement where alcohol would be ancillary to a substantial table meal.  He added that these were departures from the Hard Rock Cafe model elsewhere in the world.

Mr Kolvin commented that alcohol was likely to comprise 10% at most of total customers’ spend in the premises.  Alcohol was a small part of Hard Rock Café’s offer.  Hard Rock Cafe’s premises were able to promote the licensing objectives as had been proved in Old Park Lane.

 

Mr Kolvin said that the premises had two specific advantages in terms of location.  One was that there is a basement exit from the restaurant facility which goes straight into Piccadilly Circus Station.  They did not need to go out at street level at all.  This was particularly relevant when the night tube was operating.  Secondly, the number of residents in close proximity to the premises was very small.  There had been no objections from residents.

 

Mr Kolvin responded to questions from the Sub-Committee.  In relation to the capacity, his client had agreed a condition following discussions with the Licensing Authority that no queuing would be permitted outside the premises.  There would be a capacity of 419 in the restaurant and the Applicant was proposing that this would reduce to 300 at midnight and then 200 at 01:00.  Mr Kolvin made the point that as it was a restaurant, people would not all leave at  ...  view the full minutes text for item 4.