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Night Time Economy visits and Enforcement Update
Meeting: 19/12/2019 - Licensing Committee (Item 3)
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Minutes:
Mr Tom Lewis, Team Leader – Licensing, introduced the report which detailed late night inspections to licensed premises undertaken by the Environmental Health and Trading Standards Services. He explained that the objective was to carry out late night visits to premises where intelligence received alleged a contravention of the Licensing Act 2003.
It was noted that there were approximately 1,179 licensed premises within the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. During inspection visits where non-compliance was witnessed and a breach of the Licensing Act 2003 was established, actions were taken including warning letters being sent, review applications made and where necessary court prosecutions filed.
Mr Lewis referred Members to the appendices included in the report, which gave a detailed breakdown of the number of visits made in each ward and the relevant actions taken in 2018/19 and 2019/20 (to date).
In response to questions the following was noted;
- That the number of inspection visits in each ward varied due to the number of licensed premises in each ward.
- Where premises had a history of non-compliance, follow up checks are made accordingly.
- That licensing fines are relatively low.
- It was agreed that the next report on enforcement activity would include a comparison with other local boroughs to see how many licensed premises they had, in contrast with the number of inspection visits conducted and the number of enforcement actions taken etc.
The Chair moved and it was RESOLVED;
1. The activity that has been undertaken by the Environmental Health and Trading Standards Service with regards to regulating Late Night Licensed Premises be noted.