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Agenda and draft minutes

Licensing Sub-Committee (2) - Thursday 8th March, 2018 10.00 am

Venue: Room 3.1, 3rd Floor, 5 Strand, London, WC2 5HR. View directions

Contact: Jonathan Deacon  Email:  jdeacon@westminster.gov.uk Tel: 020 7641 2783

Items
No. Item

1.

Membership

To report any changes to the membership.

Minutes:

1.1      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:

2.1      There were no declarations of interest.

1.

Claridges Hotel, 47-57 Brook Street, Mayfair pdf icon PDF 676 KB

App

No

Ward /

Cumulative

Impact Area

Site Name and Address

Application

Licensing Reference Number

1.

West End Ward / not in cumulative impact area

Claridges Hotel, 47-57 Brook Street, Mayfair

Variation of a Premises Licence

18/00436/LIPV

 

 

 

 

Minutes:

The application was granted under delegated authority.

2.

Salon 64, 14 Bateman Street, W1 pdf icon PDF 614 KB

App

No

Ward /

Cumulative

Impact Area

Site Name and Address

Application

Licensing Reference Number

2.

West End Ward / West End Cumulative Impact Area

Salon 64, 14 Bateman Street, W1

New Premises Licence

17/15059/LIPN

 

 

 

 

Minutes:

The application was granted under delegated authority.

3.

Young Cheng Restaurant, 39 Wardour Street, W1 pdf icon PDF 284 KB

App

No

Ward /

Cumulative

Impact Area

Site Name and Address

Application

Licensing Reference Number

3.

St James’s Ward / West End Cumulative Impact Area

Young Cheng Restaurant, 39 Wardour Street, W1

Variation of a Premises Licence

17/14804/LIPV

 

 

 

 

Minutes:

LICENSING SUB-COMMITTEE No. 2

Thursday 8th March 2018

 

Membership:            Councillor Tim Mitchell (Chairman), Councillor Heather Acton and Councillor Julia Alexander

 

Legal Adviser:           Barry Panto

Committee Officer:   Tristan Fieldsend

Presenting Officer:   Yolanda Wade

 

Relevant Representations:     The Licensing Authority.

 

Present: Mr Graham Hopkins, Ms Linda Potter and Ms Gagan Sekhen (GT Licensing Consultants, representing the Applicant), Ms Xiaofeng Yu (Applicant), Ms Li Dear (Applicant’s Interpreter) and Mr Steve Rowe (Licensing Authority).

 

Young Cheng restaurant, 39 Wardour Street, London, W1D 6PX (“The Premises”)

17/114804/LIPV

 

1.

Playing of Recorded Music

 

Current:

 

Monday to Sunday: Unrestricted

 

Proposed:

 

Monday to Saturday: 10:00 to 23:30

Sunday: 12:00 to 23:00

 

Licensable Area

 

Basement and Ground Floor

 

Basement and Ground Floor to retain unrestricted right, first floor added to times specified.

 

Seasonal Variations

 

N/A

 

To permit licensable activities until 00:30 on the day following Chinese New Year and Christmas Eve.

 

 

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 Xiaofeng Yu for a variation of a premises licence in respect of Young Cheng Restaurant, 39 Wardour Street, London, W1D 6PX.

 

Councillor Mitchell declared that the application was situated within his ward but he had not entered into discussions regarding the application or made any judgements regarding it. All parties present indicated that they had no objection to Cllr Mitchell sitting on the Sub-Committee for the consideration of this item.

 

The Licensing Officer provided an outline of the application to the Sub-Committee. It was confirmed that the Police and Environmental Health (EH) had withdrawn their representations following the agreement of conditions with the applicant.

 

Mr Hopkins, representing the applicant, advised that the Premises was a long established restaurant where Ms Yu had been the licence holder since 2014.  The applicant in addition to the existing ground floor and basement had acquired the first and second floor of the Premises and therefore a variation of the existing licence had been submitted to include the first floor on the licence. Following discussions with the responsible authorities it had been agreed to include model condition 66, the full restaurant condition, onto the licence. It was proposed however to remove the provision regarding take away from the condition as the restaurant currently provided a long established take away service. The amount of take aways provided was not large but given the location, the applicant wished to be able to continue to provide this service. It was now not proposed to extend the hours for late night refreshment on Sundays and throughout the application, there would be no increase in permitted hours, including the sale by retail of alcohol.

 

It was explained by Mr Hopkins that to provide reassurance that the Premises would not operate as a bar the full restaurant condition would apply across the basement, ground and first floors. This was more restrictive than the licence currently in operation. Mr Hopkins also tabled four additional conditions which would provide further reassurance that customers leaving the Premises would  ...  view the full minutes text for item 3.