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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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Mnky Hse, 8-9 Dover Street, W1 PDF 16 MB
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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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MnkyHse, 8-9 Dover Street, W1
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New
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16/00517/LIPN
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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: 1 local
resident.
Present: Ms Lana Tricker (Solicitor,
representing the Applicant), Mr Eamonn Mulholland (Applicant
Company), Mr James Rankin (Barrister, representing the local
resident) and Mr David Green (local resident)
Mnky Hse,
8-9 Dover Street, W1
16/00517/LIPN
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1.
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Live
Music (Indoors)
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Monday to Saturday 09:00 to 03:30
Sunday 09:00 to 00:00.
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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 hours sought for
live music were granted, subject to conditions as set out
below.
The Sub-Committee
initially heard from Ms Tricker, representing the
Applicant. She stated that the
application was for a new premises licence. However, Mnky House is located outside the West
End Stress Area and there was an existing licence for a wine bar at
the premises. The premises licence,
which was held by the Applicant, largely mirrored the operating
hours currently being applied for. This
would be surrendered should the application be granted. Ms Tricker described the premises as a
‘destination dining venue’ with a musical
atmosphere. It had recently been
renovated. There was a pricing
structure of approximately £80 to £100 per
head. There would be approximately 90
staff in total. Ms Tricker referred to
the one objection received from a local resident, Mr Green who owns
flats to the rear of the premises in Albermarle Street.
Ms Tricker explained
that the licensed area was not being increased as a result of the
application. The basement area was part
of the licensed area which Mr Green had requested in his written
representation should not be included due to concerns regarding
noise outbreak. It was proposed that
there were two bars, one on the ground floor and one in the
basement rather than the three which had existed in the wine
bar. There would be more seating than
before. Ms Tricker made the point that
the specific difference between the hours on the wine bar licence
and those being applied for was that the Applicant was requesting
that the sale of alcohol would commence at 10:00 hours on Sunday
rather than midday on the existing licence. This was in order that a brunch option could be
made available to customers. She added
that she did not believe that this option would lead to anti-social
behaviour.
The Sub-Committee
asked Ms Tricker whether she was of the view that there were any
differences regarding the proposed terminal hours in the evening
between the old wine bar premises licence and current
application. She commented that she did
not believe that there was. Mr Wroe
raised the point that whilst the terminal hour on the face of the
wine bar licence on Sundays appeared to mirror those of the current
application, he was of the view that the hours on the face of
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Cafe Royal Hotel, 8 Air 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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2.
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West End Ward / West
End Cumulative Impact Area
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Café Royal
Hotel, 8 Air Street, W1
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Variation
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16/01324/LIPV
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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
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1.
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To
vary the existing premises licence so as to remove and amend the
following conditions in relation to the second floor Pompadour
Suite:
Remove
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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.
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Amendments to application
advised at hearing:
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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.
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Decision (including reasons if
different from those set out in report):
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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 ...
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