Agenda, decisions and draft minutes
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DECLARATIONS OF DISCLOSABLE PECUNIARY INTEREST PDF 67 KB To note any declarations of interest made by Members, including those restricting Members from voting on the questions detailed in Section 106 of the Local Government Finance Act, 1992. See attached note from the Monitoring Officer.
Minutes: No declarations of disclosable pecuniary interests were declared.
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To note the rules of procedure which are attached for information. Additional documents: Minutes: The Rules of Procedure were noted by the Sub Committee.
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Minutes: At the request of the Chair, Ms Corinne Holland, Licensing Officer, introduced the report, detailing the application for The London City Beach, Land off Buxton Street, London E1 6QL. It was noted that objections had been received by local residents and resident associations.
Ms Holland explained that representations from the Metropolitan Police and the Licensing Authority had been withdrawn due to a number of amendments to application and proposed conditions offered by the applicant. Ms Holland stated that the applicant may wish to clarify whether the condition requested by Trading Standards for a challenge 25 policy been agreed. The applicant confirmed this as agreed.
It was noted that a comprehensive set of conditions had been proposed by the applicant, which had been, circulated to all interested parties.
At the request of the Chair Mr Jon Payne, Legal Representative for the Applicant explained that there had been a number of changes to the application since it was first submitted. He explained that if the licence was to be granted, it would be used for a limited period each year (1st June – 31st July). It was noted that the events would not be every night during this period. Mr Payne explained that these events could have been dealt with a number of Temporary Event Notice applications but wanted to apply for a licence for a number of reasons, to provide safety, controls and measures in place and a set of robust conditions to help promote Licensing Objectives.
It was noted that last year when events were held there were no significant concerns raised by the Police or Environment Health. Mr Payne explained that conditions had been agreed with Police and the Licensing Authority and therefore there were no objections from Responsible Authorities.
It was noted that the events would mainly be corporate events for private clienteles and the advantages of this was the fact that tighter control over the event and management would know who was attending etc.
Mr Denise McCourt, applicant then addressed the Sub-Committee and gave a brief summary of his background history, his experiences to date and explained that he had 25 years of experience operating and managing events and working with local residents to address concerns. He then gave some examples of the successful events he had had in the past. Mr McCourt said that he had worked closely with the Police and Licensing Authority when had previous events in the area there had been no complaints.
Mr Payne concluded by saying that residents were 50 metres away from the premises and explained that the benefits of having the venue, occupied by security staff, CCTV cameras would therefore be a benefit to the area which would rebut the presumption of the cumulative impact zone.
Members then heard from local residents, Mr David Donoghue, Mr Charlie Dunlop, Mr David Spurring, Mr R Singh and Ms Maria Papageorgiou who all raised similar concerns about lack of any consultation with residents in the area, the likely increase in ... view the full minutes text for item 3.1 |
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EXTENSION OF DECISION DEADLINE: LICENSING ACT 2003 The Sub Committee may be requested to extend the decision deadline for applications to be considered at forthcoming meetings due to the volume of applications requiring a hearing. Where necessary, details will be provided at the meeting.
Minutes: There were no applications that required deadline extensions.
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Application for a Temporary Event Notices for Shawarma, 84 Brick Lane, London E1 6RL PDF 66 KB Additional documents: Minutes: This item was resolved prior to the meeting.
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