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Agenda and minutes

Agenda and minutes

Venue: The Executive Meeting Room - Third Floor, The Guildhall, Portsmouth. View directions

Contact: Jane Di Dino, 023 9283 4060  Email: jane.didino@portsmouthcc.gov.uk

Items
No. Item

39.

Appointment of Chair.

Minutes:

Councillor Hannah Hockaday was appointed Chair of this hearing. 

40.

Declarations of Members' Interests.

Minutes:

No interests were declared.

41.

Licensing Act 2003 - Application for grant of a premises licence Becketts Southsea Ltd, 10-11 Bellevue Terrace, Southsea PO5 3AT. pdf icon PDF 67 KB

Purpose.

The purpose of this report is for the committee to consider an application for the grant of a premises licence under the Licensing Act 2003 ('the Act').  The matter has been referred to the committee for determination following the receipt of several representations from local residents.

 

RECOMMENDED that the committee determine this matter.

 

Additional documents:

Minutes:

Present

Peter Baulf, Legal Advisor

Jason Parker, Applicant

Jon Wallsgrove, Solicitor for the applicant.

Derek Stone, Principal Licensing Officer

Interested parties

Mr Jason Bentley

Mr Mike Stone

Mr Arthur Wrigglesworth

Mr Michael Wrigglesworth

Mr John Hughes

Mr Andrew Parsons (representing himself, Ms Bevis and a number of other residents)

Mr Hamed Ammari

Ms Barbara Ford

 

The Chair welcomed everyone to the meeting and explained the fire procedures in case of a fire alarm.  She asked everyone present to introduce themselves.  With the approval of the chair, Mr Parsons circulated a summary table showing the existing, original proposed and amended hours of operation to the committee. 

 

The Principal Licensing Officer introduced the report.  He added that following engagement with environmental health some additional conditions on the licence had been agreed with the applicant.  These had been circulated to the committee before the meeting.  The condition agreed was that other than for access and egress, all doors and windows are to remain closed whilst regulated entertainment is being provided.  In response to questions from members the following points were clarified:

  • The premises is already operating as an extended business under their current licence however the Principal Licensing Officer was unsure as to when this commenced. 
  • The Principal Licensing Officer had checked the previous day with the Environmental Health officer with regard to noise complaints and they had receive no new noise nuisance complaints about the premises.   
  • The amenity license for the premises states that tables and chairs need to be removed from the highway by 21:00 and must be directly outside no.11 Bellevue Terrace. 


Mr Wallsgrove had no questions for the Principal Licensing Officer. 

 

In response to questions from Mr Parsons the following points were clarified:

  • The Principal Licensing Officer was satisfied that the notice of the application had been displayed correctly.  It had been moved three times after a local councillor requested the notice to be moved for greater visibility.  The notice in all the locations had however still been visible and able to be viewed and had therefore been displayed lawfully. 
  • The committee's legal advisor suggested that due to the number of people present at the meeting today and the number of representations received that advertising of the application had occurred.  It was the discretion of the committee today whether they felt that sufficient advertising of the application had occurred.

Mr Wallsgrove said that it was wrong to assume that there would be more people making representations to the application if the notice had been displayed in another location and supported the licensing officers in that the application had been advertised properly.  He said there were photos to show where the notice was displayed and the fact that there might have been a better location for the notice was irrelevant to today's hearing. 

 

Mr Stone, one of the interested parties, said that most of the residents had only known about the application due to a local councillor informing them of this. 

 

The committee's Legal Advisor advised the committee to  ...  view the full minutes text for item 41.