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Items
No. Item

1.

Membership

To report any changes to the membership.

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.

Ichi Buns, 22 to 22A (including the 1st Floor of 24), Wardour Street, W1 pdf icon PDF 1 MB

App

No

Ward /

Cumulative

Impact Area

Site Name and Address

Application

Licensing Reference Number

1.

St James’s Ward / West End Cumulative Impact Area

Ichi Buns, 22 to 22A (including the 1st Floor of 24), Wardour Street, W1

New premises licence

16/12567/LIPN

 

 

 

 

Minutes:

LICENSING SUB-COMMITTEE No. 5

Thursday 2nd March 2017

 

Membership:              Councillor Peter Freeman (Chairman), Councillor Heather Acton and Councillor Aziz Toki

 

Legal Adviser:             Barry Panto

Policy Adviser:            Chris Wroe

Committee Officer:     Jonathan Deacon

Presenting Officer:     Sumeet Anand-Patel

 

Relevant Representations:         Metropolitan Police and Environmental Health.

 

Present:  Mr Alun Thomas (Solicitor, representing the Applicant), Ms Sankay Ko , Mr Neil Dostemedes and Mr Benjamin Goldhorn (Applicant Company), Mr Dave Nevitt (Environmental Health) and PC Sandy Russell (Metropolitan Police).

 

Ichi Buns, 22A Wardour Street, W1

16/12567/LIPN

 

1.

Late Night Refreshment (Indoors & Outdoors) – Ground Floor & Basement

 

 

Monday to Sunday 23:00 to 02:00

 

 

Amendments to application advised at hearing:

 

 

Mr Thomas, representing the Applicant, confirmed at the hearing that it was proposed that the take away service of food or drink for immediate consumption would conclude at 01:00.  It was proposed that deliveries of hot food or hot drink would be available until 02:00.

 

 

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

 

 

At the initial hearing of this application at the Sub-Committee meeting on 2 February 2017, the Applicant applied for an additional two hours for the sale of alcohol until 02:00 every day of the week with a two hour reduction for late night refreshment including takeaway from 04:00 until 02:00 every day of the week. This related solely to the ground floor and basement of the premises.  Members of the Sub-Committee were aware that the premises licence for the ground floor and basement did not have the Council’s model restaurant condition attached and the Applicant was not keen to have it attached in its entirety in view of the fact that a takeaway service after 23.00 was critical to its operating model.  The Applicant’s Representative asked for an adjournment to look at his client’s options and this was agreed by the Sub-Committee.

 

Due to the application having been part heard in February, the new hearing had been scheduled for when the three Members who had heard the original evidence were next available.  The new hearing took place on 2 March 2017.

 

In a letter provided to the Sub-Committee prior to the hearing on 2 March 2017, the Applicant offered food in the form of substantial table meals prepared on the premises, that take away service of food or drink for immediate consumption would conclude at 01:00 (deliveries of hot food and hot drink would conclude at 02:00 as originally applied for) and that the sale of alcohol would be to customers who would be seated and served by waiter or waitress where the consumption of that alcohol would be ancillary to the taking of a substantial meal. 

 

Mr Thomas, representing the Applicant was content for the Sub-Committee to hear initially from Environmental Health and the Metropolitan Police who had made representations in respect of the application.  Mr Nevitt spoke on behalf of the Responsible Authorities.  He stated that they had looked at the existing licence for the premises in comparison to what was being applied for now.  They had  ...  view the full minutes text for item 3.