Agenda and draft minutes

It Restaurant, Hereditable House, 28-29 Dover Street, London, W1S 4NA

(“The Premises”)

20/03360/LIPV

1.

Sale by Retail of Alcohol – On and Off Sales

Amendments to application advised at hearing:

None.

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

The Sub-Committee considered an application by It Restaurant Limited

for a variation of a premises licence in respect of It Restaurant, Hereditable House, 28-29 Dover Street, London, W1S 4NA.

The ing Officer introduced the application.

Mr Spiegler, representing the Applicant, provided an overview of the operation to the Sub-Committee and described how it operated as a restaurant and not as a bar or nightclub with a two-star Michelin chef providing the food. The Premises had conditions on its current licence requiring it to operate as a restaurant except for some very small bar areas which had a maximum capacity of sixteen persons each. Non-diners were permitted to use these bar areas, but the Sub-Committee was advised that they were primarily utilised by diners. If the Sub-Committee was minded to grant the application the Applicant was content for conditions 9 and 10 on the current licence to be replaced with the Council’s model restaurant condition (MC66) which was far stricter regarding the supply of alcohol. To address concerns the Applicant was also offering to impose an additional condition on the licence stipulating that after 00:00 Monday to Thursday and 01:00 Friday to Saturday the supply of alcohol would have to be ancillary to persons dining at the restaurant.

Mr Spiegler advised that there were three main factors which distinguished this application from other recent applications by premises in the vicinity which had been refused by Licensing Sub-Committees. Firstly, the Premises was not a nightclub with any music played being of a low-level nature creating an ambience  ...  view the full minutes text for item 1.

Caesar Hotel, Ground Floor To Fifth Floor, 26-33 Queen's Gardens, Bayswater,

W2 3BD (“The Premises”)

20/01558/LIPV

1.

Sale by Retail of Alcohol – On Sales

Amendments to application advised at hearing:

None.

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

The Sub-Committee considered an application by Caesar Management Limited

for a variation of a premises licence in respect of Caesar Hotel, Ground Floor To Fifth Floor, 26-33 Queen's Gardens, Bayswater, W2 3BD.

The Licensing Officer introduced the application and confirmed that the Police and Environmental Health had both withdrawn their representations following the agreement of conditions with the Applicant.

Ms Hills, representing the Applicant, explained that the application was seeking to vary its existing licence (by the removal of certain conditions as specified below) to permit members of the public to use the bar area located within the Premises which they currently were not permitted to do. This variation was being sought following frequent requests from local residents. The application also sought to reduce the hours permitting the sale by retail of alcohol to core hours. The Police had suggested additional conditions be attached to the licence and the applicant had agreed these including one restricting sales of alcohol after core hours to hotel residents and their bona fide guests on production of a room key card and/or Hotel account card. Conditions had also been agreed with Environmental Health (EH) and the South East Bayswater Residents Association (SEBRA). Ms Hills advised that the Applicant had a good relationship with SEBRA who were broadly supportive of the application. The additional conditions agreed had been forwarded onto the sole residential objector, but it was advised that no response to these had been received. It was confirmed that the application was not seeking to change the current use of the Premises in any way. Any other alterations to the licence were simply to tidy it up as it was an old licence and several conditions required updating. In addition to this a new plan had been submitted detailing the proposed bar area hatched in red.

In response to questions from the Sub-Committee Mr Melville, the Designated Premises Supervisor, confirmed that any signage for the bar would be located on Leinster Gardens with the bar operation also planned to be advertised through social media.  ...  view the full minutes text for item 2.