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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:
Councillors Caplan, Burbridge
and Evans advised that in respect of Item 3 they had visited the
premises on a personal basis but this would not influence their
views on the matter.
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Crocker's Folly, 24 Aberdeen Place, NW8  PDF 2 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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Regent’s Park Ward / not in cumulative
impact area
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Crocker's Folly, 24 Aberdeen Place, NW8
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Variation
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16/00715/LIPV
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Minutes:
LICENSING SUB-COMMITTEE No. 3
Thursday
14th April 2016
Membership:
Councillor Melvyn Caplan (Chairman), Councillor Susie Burbridge and
Councillor Nick Evans
Legal
Adviser:
Barry Panto
Policy
Adviser:
Chris Wroe
Committee Officer:
Tristan Fieldsend
Presenting Officer: Nick Nelson
Relevant Representations: Environmental
Health and 16 local residents (2 in support of the
application).
Present:
Mr John Lisle (Solicitor, Representing the Applicant), Mr James
Lang (Applicant), Mr Anil Drayan
(Environmental Health), Mr Richard Brown (Solicitor, Citizens
Advice Bureau Licensing Advice Project, representing Mrs Anna
Sinclair, Dr Alan Roth, Mrs Stephanie Roth and Ms Jen Whitten), Dr
Alan Roth and Ms Jen Whitten (local residents).
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Crocker’s Folly, 24 Aberdeen Place, NW8
16/00715/LIPV
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Conditions proposed to be varied so as to enable patrons to sit
outside the premises for an additional hour from 21.00 to
22.00
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Condition
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Proposed Variation
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Condition
24:
After 21:00 hours patrons permitted to temporarily leave and
then re-enter the premises, e.g.to smoke, shall not be permitted to
take drinks or glass containers with them.
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Amend
to:
After 22:00 hours patrons permitted to temporarily leave and
then re-enter the premises, e.g.to smoke, shall not be permitted to
take drinks or glass containers with them.
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Condition
26:
After 21:00 hours patrons permitted to temporarily leave and
then re-enter the premises, e.g. to smoke, shall be limited to 10
persons at any one time.
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Amend
to:
After 22:00 hours patrons permitted to temporarily leave and
then re-enter the premises, e.g. to smoke, shall be limited to 10
persons at any one time.
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Condition
27:
All
outside tables and chairs shall be rendered unusable by 21:00 hours
and the external area to the left of the entrance door as you face
the premise shall be rendered unusable by 19:00 hours each
day.
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Amend
to:
All
outside tables and chairs shall be rendered unusable by 22:00 hours
and the external area to the left of the entrance door as you face
the premise shall be rendered unusable by 19:00 hours each
day.
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Condition
29:
No
waste or recyclable materials, including bottles, shall be moved,
removed or placed in outside areas between 21.00 hours and 08.00
hours.
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Amend
to:
No
waste or recyclable materials, including bottles, shall be moved,
removed or placed in outside areas between 22:00 hours and 08.00
hours.
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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
Firestone Management Limited for a variation of a premises licence
in respect of Crocker’s Folly.
The Licensing Officer provided an outline of
the application to the Sub-Committee.
All parties were invited to make
representations to the Sub-Committee in relation to the
application. The parties responded to members’
questions and were given an opportunity to ask questions of each
other.
In response to a request from Dr Alan Roth to
call a witness, the Sub-Committee’s Legal Adviser confirmed
that the witness was not present and the representation made by
that witness had not been submitted within the legal timeframe. It
could not be ...
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Circa, Basement and Ground Floor, 62 Frith Street, W1 PDF 2 MB
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App
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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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West End Ward / West End Cumulative Impact
Area
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Circa, Basement and Ground Floor, 62 Frith
Street, W1
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Variation
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16/01596/LIPV
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Minutes:
LICENSING SUB-COMMITTEE No. 3
Thursday
14th April 2016
Membership:
Councillor Melvyn Caplan (Chairman), Councillor Susie Burbridge and
Councillor Nick Evans
Legal
Adviser:
Barry Panto
Policy
Adviser:
Chris Wroe
Committee Officer:
Tristan Fieldsend
Presenting Officer: Nick Nelson
Relevant Representations: Environmental
Health and 8 persons in support of the application.
Present:
Mr Jack Spiegler (Solicitor, Representing the Applicant), Mr Alan
Winter and Ms Rafaela Borges (representing the applicant company),
Mr Anil Drayan (Environmental Health), PC Bryan Lewis (Metropolitan
Police) and Mr Jonathan Neill (local resident).
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Circa,
Basement and Ground Floor, 62 Frith Street, London
16/01596/LIPV
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Layout Alteration
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Variation to the
layout in accordance with the plans appended to the application.
The proposed changes relate to improved toilet accommodation in the
basement area.
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Increase in Capacity
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Increase the
authorised capacity from 100 to 130 (excluding staff) on Thursdays
to Saturdays only. The capacity on all other days would remain at
100 but would exclude staff, which would actually give rise to an
actual increase in capacity on those days as well.
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3.
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Conditions Being Varied, Added or Removed
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Condition
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Proposed Variation
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Condition
10:
The
premises shall install and maintain a comprehensive CCTV system as
per the minimum requirements of a Metropolitan Police Crime
Prevention Officer. All entry and exit points will be covered
enabling frontal identification of every person entering in any
light condition. The CCTV system shall continually record whilst
the premises is open for licensable activities and during all times
when customers remain on the premises. All recordings shall be
stored for a minimum period of 31 days with date and time
stamping.
Recordings shall be made available
immediately upon the request of Police or authorised officer
throughout the preceding 31 day period.
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Amend
to:
The
premises shall install and maintain a comprehensive CCTV system as
per the minimum requirements of the Westminster Police Licensing
Team. All entry and exit points will be covered enabling frontal
dentification of every person entering in any light condition. The
CCTV system shall continually record whilst the premises is open
for licensable activities and during all times when customers
remain on the premises. All recordings shall be stored for a
minimum period of 31 days with date and time stamping, Viewing of
recordings
shall be made available immediately upon the request of Police
or authorised officer throughout the preceding 31 day
period.
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Condition
13:
After 21:00 hours on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, SIA
registered door staff must staff the door until the last customer
leaves.
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Amend
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After 21:00 hours on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, SIA
registered door staff must staff the door until the last customer
leaves. On Friday and Saturday a minimum of 2 SIA registered door
staff shall be on duty at the premises from 21:00 until the last
customer leaves.
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Condition
21:
After 23:00 hours the supply of alcohol must be ancillary to the
use of the premises for music and dancing and/or substantial
refreshment.
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Remove
from the premises licence
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Condition
22:
The
number of persons permitted on the ...
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Essentials, Unit 1, Leicester Square Station, Charing Cross Road PDF 1 MB
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App
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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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St James’s Ward / West End Cumulative
Impact Area
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Essentials, Unit 1, Leicester Square Station,
Charing Cross Road
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New
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16/01043/LIPN
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Minutes:
LICENSING SUB-COMMITTEE No. 3
Thursday
14th April 2016
Membership:
Councillor Melvyn Caplan (Chairman), Councillor Susie Burbridge and
Councillor Nick Evans
Legal
Adviser:
Barry Panto
Policy
Adviser:
Chris Wroe
Committee Officer:
Tristan Fieldsend
Presenting Officer: Sumeet Anand-Patel
Relevant Representations: Metropolitan
Police.
Present:
Mr Alec Dolby (Agent, Representing the Applicant), Mr Hadi Ahmad (Applicant), Mr Suresh Kanapathi (Licensing Consultant), Ms Sumeet Anand-Patel
(Environmental Health) and PC Sandy Russell (Metropolitan
Police).
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Essentials, Unit 1, Leicester Square Station
16/01043/LIPN
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Off
Sale by Retail of Alcohol
Monday to Sunday:
11:00 – 22:00
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Hours
Premises are Open to the Public
Monday to Sunday:
07:00 – 22:00
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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
Global VIPs Limited for a new premises licence in respect of
Essentials.
The Licensing Officer provided an outline of
the application to the Sub-Committee. She explained that the
premises operated as a newsagent / convenience store within
Leicester Square Underground Station. The applicant was seeking to
sell alcohol for consumption off the premises until 22.00 hours
every day.
All parties were invited to make
representations to the Sub-Committee in relation to the
application. The parties responded to members’
questions and were given an opportunity to ask questions of each
other.
Mr Ahmad, the Director of the applicant
company, advised the Sub-Committee that he had been working at the
premises for twenty-seven years during which he had built up a good
working relationship with Transport for London (TfL). He was now the owner of the business. The
premises had previously operated as a coffee shop but he found it
difficult to compete with another similar operator within the
station. TfL had suggested that he
might want to think about changing his business to that of a
convenience store. It was confirmed that draft conditions had been
agreed with Environmental Health and Transport for London no longer
had any objection to him selling alcohol subject to Mr
Ahmad abiding by their alcohol selling policy. A copy of the letter
(dated 25th November 2015) confirming the granting of
TFL’s permission to sell alcohol at the premises was
circulated to the Sub-Committee.
In respect of the British Transport
Police’s evidence at page 80 of the Licensing Sub-Committee
report, the Sub-Committee’s Legal Adviser clarified that the
Transport for London Byelaws did not prevent customers from being
in possession of alcohol either within the station itself or on the
underground trains. It was legal to be on the tube network with
alcohol as long as it was in a sealed container.
Mr Dolby, the applicant’s agent,
explained that alongside the draft conditions agreed with
Environmental Health, TFL’s alcohol selling policy was so
stringent that if there was one single reported incident Mr Ahmad
would have to immediately cease selling alcohol. This would ensure
that there would be no alcohol related issues relating to the
premises.
In response to a question Mr Dolby confirmed
that no ...
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