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          The Committee met to consider an application which had been made under section 17 of the Licensing Act 2003 for a premises licence in relation to the above premises.

          The hearing was held in accordance with the provisions of section 18 Licensing Act 2003 and the Licensing Act (Hearings) Regulations 2005.

          Following an introduction (introducing all of the persons present at the hearing) by the Chairman – Councillor K Loftus and the Council’s legal representative John Tully – Group Solicitor Environment and Licensing, outlined the procedures to be followed and summarised the points which were relevant to the conduct of the hearing.

          Mr Tully summarised the information set out in the agenda.

          The agenda set out which licensable activities had been applied for, together with the hours and days during which those activities would take place. A summary table had been prepared to assist with identifying the licensable activities together with the changes between the existing premises licence and the current application.

          The representations from responsible authorities were contained in the agenda and the representations from other persons (still referred to by the former title of ‘interested parties’) were set out in a separate bundle which had been previously been sent to the Committee members and to the parties.

Since the agenda was prepared negotiations had continued between the applicant and other parties resulting in agreed conditions with Cheshire Police and with Halton Borough Council Environmental Protection, Halton Borough Council Environmental Health, Health and Safety and Food Safety and Halton Borough Council Trading Standards.

          Representations had been made by the following responsible authorities: Cheshire Constabulary, Halton Borough Council Environmental Protection, Environmental Health – Health and Safety and Food Safety, Halton Borough Council Trading Standards and Warrington Borough Council Environmental Protection. The Committee was advised that the conditions requested by Warrington Borough Council Environmental Protection were in the main consistent with the conditions requested by Halton Borough Council’s Environmental Health and it was agreed that the Halton Borough Council Environmental Health Officer (EHO) conditions were accepted by the applicant.  Since Warrington Borough Council had not confirmed its position with respect to the outcome of negotiations it was for the Committee to determine which conditions it would impose. The position regarding the Halton Trading Standards proposed ‘Challenge 25’ conditions had been resolved the day before the hearing when the Cheshire Constabulary ‘Challenge 21’ position was accepted.

          Letters making representations had been received from a total of 9 other persons. Two of the representations received were invalid because they did not constitute relevant representations. Details of the interested parties who made relevant representations were set out at Appendix 5 of the Committee report. Only relevant representations were taken into account by the Committee (the Committee having determined what constituted a relevant

representation from other persons).  Where a representation contained both relevant and irrelevant material only the relevant elements of the representation were taken into account. In some cases no evidence/information had been put forward to substantiate the reasons expressed and in some cases  ...  view the full minutes text for item 33.