Items
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Membership
To report any changes to the membership.
Minutes:
1.1 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:
2.1 There were no
declarations of interest.
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Trocadero Hotel / Sky Bar & Restaurant, 13 Coventry Street, W1 PDF 3 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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1.
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St James’s Ward
/ West End Cumulative Impact Area
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Trocadero Hotel / Sky
Bar & Restaurant, 13 Coventry Street, W1
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New Premises
Licence
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18/00656/LIPN
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Minutes:
LICENSING SUB-COMMITTEE No. 5
Thursday
19th April 2018
Membership:
Councillor Peter Freeman (Chairman), Councillor Susie Burbridge and
Councillor Murad Gassanly
Legal
Adviser:
Horatio Chance
Committee Officer: Tristan
Fieldsend
Presenting Officer: Heidi
Lawrance
Relevant Representations: The Licensing Authority, The
Metropolitan Police, Environmental Health and Two Local
Residents
Present:
Ms Lisa Sharkey (Solicitor, representing the Applicant), Mr Jasdeep
Sodhi (Hotel Manager), Mr Graham Marskell (Managing Director of
Bespoke Hotels), PC Sandy Russell (Metropolitan Police), Mr Ian
Watson (Environmental Health) and Miss Daisy Gadd (Licensing
Authority)
Trocadero
Hotel/Sky Bar & Restaurant, 13 Coventry Street, London, W1W 7DH
(“The Premises”)
18/00656/LIPN
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1.
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Live
Music, Recorded Music and Performance of Dance - Indoors
Monday to Sunday:
10:00 to 02:00
Further Details:
Live entertainment and
recorded music will be on the 12th and 13th
floors.
The performance of
dance may be provided from time to time on the 12th and
13th floors as ancillary to events, functions or
dining.
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Amendments to
application advised at hearing:
Following a proposal
from the applicant the Sub-Committee agreed to remove the provision
of regulated entertainment, save for recorded music, from the
licence.
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Decision (including
reasons if different from those set out in report):
The Sub-Committee considered an
application by Trocadero (London) Hotel Ltd for a new premises
licence in respect of the Trocadero Hotel/Sky Bar &
Restaurant.
The Licensing Officer
provided an outline of the application to the Sub-Committee and
confirmed that one of the residential representations had been
withdrawn.
Ms Sharkey,
representing the Applicant, provided an outline of the
nature of the application. It was
submitted that the Applicant was submitting three applications
overall, of which Criterion Capital owned all three buildings.
Criterion Capital were seeking to redevelop these buildings in
order to open three hotels. The Sub-Committee were advised that
under a Management Agreement, Bespoke Hotels would operate the
hotels with Criterion Capital acting as the landlords. Mr Graham
Marskell, the Managing Director of Bespoke Hotels, confirmed that
they managed eighty hotels throughout the UK including six located
in London. Sixty-five of these were managed on behalf of other
investors similar to the current application before the
Sub-Committee. Mr Sodhi, the Hotel Manager, was also experienced as
a hotelier and had worked in the hotel industry for eight
years.
Ms Sharkey advised
that the Trocadero Hotel/Sky Bar and Restaurant application was
proposing to open a seven hundred and forty-bedroom hotel. On the
twelfth floor there would be a bar and restaurant with an external
garden area. A restaurant would be located on the thirteenth floor
with function facilities available to hold conferences or
promotional events. Residents of nearby Coventry House had
expressed concern over potential nuisance from the music aspect of
the application. The application had subsequently therefore been
amended to restrict regulated entertainment to the thirteenth floor
function room. This function room was an enclosed space facing
Shaftesbury Avenue away from Coventry House. Conditions had also
been agreed with Environmental Health (EH) which included the use
of a sound limiter to ensure no residents would ...
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Hotel Indigo, 1-4 Leicester Square, WC2 PDF 6 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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2.
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St James’s Ward
/ West End Cumulative Impact Area
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Hotel Indigo, 1-4
Leicester Square, WC2
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New Premises
Licence
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18/00654/LIPN
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Minutes:
LICENSING SUB-COMMITTEE No. 5
Thursday
19th April 2018
Membership:
Councillor Peter Freeman (Chairman), Councillor Susie Burbridge and
Councillor Murad Gassanly
Legal
Adviser:
Horatio Chance
Committee Officer: Tristan
Fieldsend
Presenting Officer: Heidi
Lawrance
Relevant Representations: The Licensing Authority, The Metropolitan Police and Environmental
Health
Present:
Ms Lisa Sharkey (Solicitor, representing the Applicant), Mr Jasdeep
Sodhi (Hotel Manager), Mr Graham
Marskell (Managing Director of Bespoke
Hotels), PC Sandy Russell (Metropolitan Police), Mr Ian Watson
(Environmental Health) and Miss Daisy Gadd (Licensing
Authority)
Hotel
Indigo, 1-4 Leicester Square, London, WC2H 7NA (“The
Premises”)
18/00654/LIPN
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Recorded Music - Indoors
Monday to Sunday:
10:00 to 02:00
Seasonal Variations/Non-Standard Timings:
Recorded music may be
provided from time to time in the 9th floor bar and
restaurant. The music will be amplified.
There shall be no music played in the 9th floor external
terrace area of the Premises.
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Amendments to application advised at hearing:
None.
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Decision (including
reasons if different from those set out in report):
The Sub-Committee considered an
application by Leicester Square (London) Hotel Ltd for a new
premises licence in respect of Hotel Indigo, 1-4 Leicester Square,
London, WC2H 7NA.
The Licensing Officer
provided an outline of the application to the Sub-Committee and
confirmed that the local resident had withdrawn their
representation.
Ms Sharkey,
representing the Applicant, explained that the proposal from
Bespoke Hotels was for a Premises operating as a five star boutique
hotel where a one night stay would cost
between £280 and £450. A total of
ninety-five bedrooms would be situated on floors one to
eight with a bar and restaurant located in the ninth floor. The
Sub-Committee was shown details of the
hotel lobby area and how guests entering the hotel would
immediately be greeted at the reception desk. In order for people
to access the hotel rooms or bar/restaurant they would either have to be escorted
by a member of staff or, if they were hotel residents, use their
hotel key card. An indicative layout of the restaurant area was
provided which detailed how customers would be
greeted by a member of staff at arrival. The Sub-Committee
was advised that the ninth floor had
exceptional views of London and would primarily be used by
pre-booked customers looking to celebrate a special occasion for
example. There was an external terrace
that would be used for viewing and for those customers
wishing to smoke. A smoking area would be
designated on the terrace and this would encourage smokers
to use this area rather than the public highway. The Applicant
acknowledged that the application was seeking to sell alcohol in a
Cumulative Impact Area (CIA) beyond core hours. However, it
was hoped that the application could be
considered an exception to the Council’s Statement of
Licensing Policy (SLP) as in return for granting it two licences
would be surrendered. These licences permitted alcohol and
regulated entertainment until 03:00 hours, seven days a week
(except Sunday until 00:30 hours on one of the licences). The
licences were granted ...
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Assembly Hotel, Basement And Ground Floor Part, Alhambra House, 27-31 Charing Cross Road, WC2 PDF 3 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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St James’s Ward
/ West End Cumulative Impact Area
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Assembly Hotel,
Basement And Ground Floor Part, Alhambra House, 27-31 Charing Cross
Road, WC2
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New Premises
Licence
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18/00655/LIPN
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Minutes:
LICENSING SUB-COMMITTEE No. 5
Thursday
19th April 2018
Membership:
Councillor Peter Freeman (Chairman), Councillor Susie Burbridge and
Councillor Murad Gassanly
Legal
Adviser:
Horatio Chance
Committee Officer: Tristan
Fieldsend
Presenting Officer: Heidi
Lawrance
Relevant Representations: The Licensing Authority, The
Metropolitan Police, Environmental Health, The Burleigh Mansions
Residents’ Association, The Covent Garden Community
Association and Three Local Residents
Present:
Ms Lisa Sharkey (Solicitor, representing the Applicant), Mr Jasdeep
Sodhi (Hotel Manager), Mr Graham Marskell (Managing Director of
Bespoke Hotels), PC Sandy Russell (Metropolitan Police), Mr Ian
Watson (Environmental Health), Miss Daisy Gadd (Licensing
Authority) and Mr Richard Brown (Solicitor, Citizens Advice Bureau
Licensing Advice Project, representing the Covent garden Community
Association and one local resident)
Assembly
Hotel, Basement and Ground Floor Part, Alhambra House, 27-31
Charing Cross Road, WC2H 0AU (“The
Premises”)
18/00655/LIPN
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Recorded Music - Indoors
Monday to Thursday:
10:00 to 00:00
Friday to Saturday:
10:00 to 01:00
Sunday: 10:00 to
22:30
Seasonal Variations/Non-Standard Timings:
Recorded music may be
provided from time to time in the 10th floor bar and
restaurant. The music will be amplified. There shall be no music
played in the 10th floor external terrace.
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Amendments to
application advised at hearing:
None.
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Decision (including
reasons if different from those set out in report):
The Sub-Committee considered an
application by Alhambra House (London) Hotel Ltd for a new premises
licence in respect of the Assembly hotel, Basement and Ground Floor
Part, Alhambra House, 27-31 Charing Cross Road, London, WC2H
0AU.
The Licensing Officer
provided an outline of the application to the
Sub-Committee.
Ms Sharkey,
representing the Applicant, advised the Sub-Committee that a
constructive meeting had taken place with local residents to
discuss the nature of the application. As such, the Applicant had
taken on board the views of local residents and therefore amended
the hours and proposed several amendments to the proposed
conditions. Following the meeting, a further amendment had been
proposed by residents, which the applicant had agreed to, and these
amendments were then circulated to all parties at the meeting with
the Sub-Committee’s agreement. Ms Sharkey advised the
Sub-Committee of several of these amendments which
included:
- Prohibiting the
Premises from operating as a nightclub with no dancing facilities
provided;
- The capacity of the
external area being limited to a maximum of twelve
customers;
- No seating provided
on the external terrace; and
- Deliveries and
collections to the Premises to abide by the TfL Code of Practice
for quieter deliveries.
Ms Sharkey provided
further details of the conditions proposed by the applicant and
those by the Police. One of the Police’s proposed conditions
required customers to use polycarbonate-drinking vessels on the
external terrace area. The Sub-Committee was advised that this was
not necessary, as the terrace had no views as a six-foot wall
bordered it and therefore the use of glass posed no risks to
residents. It was a small area with a capacity of twelve people and
no seating would be provided. The area would primarily be used for
customers who wanted to smoke. PC ...
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Smith's Bar and Grill, 25 Sheldon Square, W2 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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4.
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Hyde Park Ward / not
in cumulative impact area
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Smith's Bar and Grill,
25 Sheldon Square, W2
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Review of Premises
Licence
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18/00606/LIREVP
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Additional documents:
Minutes:
The application was deferred to
a future Sub-Committee meeting.
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