Minutes:
ITEM DEALT WITH UNDER DUTIES EXERCISABLE BY
THE COMMITTEE AS LICENSING COMMITTEE UNDER THE LICENSING ACT 2003
Following a request from the
applicant Stephen Lawler for the hearing to be adjourned and confirmation from
Cheshire Constabulary that they had no objection to an adjournment a Sub
Committee of the Regulatory Committee met on 4 September 2012 and resolved to
open and adjourn the hearing to the 18 October 2012
The Committee met on 18 October 2012
to consider an application which had been made under Section 34 of the
Licensing Act 2003 to vary a premises licence.
The hearing was held in accordance
with the Licensing Act 2003 and the Licensing Act 2003 (Hearings) Regulations
2005.
The Chairman introduced the members
of the Committee and the Council’s officers who were present.
The Council’s legal adviser, John
Tully, summarised the procedure to be followed and outlined the nature of the
application.
Mr Tully also advised the committee
that the following documents were to be considered with the application:-
Whilst outlining the application Mr Tully
advised the Committee that the following elements of the variation application
were not the subject of the determination at the hearing following agreement
between the parties
“On the ground floor areas marked as restaurant areas on the plan,
alcohol shall only be served in conjunction with and ancillary to a seated
table meal and shall be supplied by waiter/waitress service”.
“Seasonal
variations: An additional hour at the end of permitted hours when British
summertime begins”
The remaining elements of the
application in respect of which representations had not been withdrawn were:
At the beginning of the hearing the Police stated (as they had put in their written representations) that there would be no objection to the CCTV Suite condition being varied so that the hour ’00.30’ be substituted for the hour ’23.00’ on the basis that most incidents happen after this hour. The Applicant was concerned that keeping the condition ... view the full minutes text for item 6