Agenda and minutes

          The Committee met to consider an application which had been made under Section 34 of the Licensing Act 2003 to vary the above premises licence. The hearing was held in accordance with the Licensing Act 2003 and the Licensing Act 2003 (Hearings) Regulations 2005.

 

          The meeting was held as a hearing relating to an application made in respect of JD’s Bar 2 – 4 High Street Runcorn to vary elements of its premises licence. In attendance were:

 

          The Applicant, Dale Carter, (who did not attend) was represented by James Quigley, the Designated Premises Supervisor (DPS);

Cheshire Constabulary (“the Police”) were represented by Chris Rees-Gay (Walker Morris Solicitors) also in attendance were Ian Seville Police Licensing Officer, PC Chris Carney, Sgt Byrne, Bill Seabury Licensing Enforcement Officer Safer Halton Partnership and Paul Draycott Police Licensing Officer Warrington.

 

          The Chairman, Cllr. G Philbin, introduced the persons in attendance.

 

          The Council’s legal advisor, John Tully, outlined the procedure to be followed and summarised the nature of the application and the relevant representations which had been made including the Objection File provided by the Police after the Committee item had been produced. All documents had been previously provided to the applicant and to the Committee.

 

Details of the existing premises licence standard hours

The premises currently have the following licensable activities:-

Categories A – Plays (Indoors), B – Exhibition of films  (Indoors), C – Indoor Sporting Events, D – Boxing and Wrestling (Indoors), E – Live Music (Indoors and Outdoors) , F – Recorded Music (Indoors and Outdoors), G – Performance of Dance (Indoors and Outdoors) , H – Similar to e,f or g (Indoors and Outdoors), I – Making Music (Indoors and Outdoors), J – Dancing (Indoors and Outdoors) for the following hours:

Sunday to Wednesday 09.00 to 01.30

Thursday to Saturday 09.00 03.00

 

Category L – Late Night Refreshment (Indoors and Outdoors) for the following hours:

Sunday to Thursday 23.00 to 02.00

Friday and Saturday 23.00 to 03.30

 

Category M – Sale of Alcohol (On and Off) for the following hours:

Sunday to Wednesday 09.00 to 02.00

Thursday to Saturday 09.00 to 03.00

 

Category O – Hours Premises are Open to the Public

Sunday to Wednesday 09.00 to 02.00

Thursday to Saturday 09.00 to 03.30

 

Details of the application

The variation application requested the following licensable activities:-

For the categories A – Plays (Indoors) , B – Films (Indoors), C – Indoor Sporting Events, D – Boxing and Wrestling (Indoors), E – Live Music (Indoors and Outdoors), F – Recorded Music (Indoors and Outdoors), G – Performance of Dance (Indoors and Outdoors), H – Anything Similar to e f or g (Indoors and Outdoors), I – Making Music (Indoors and Outdoors), J – Dancing (Indoors and Outdoors) - between the hours of:

Sunday to Wednesday 09.00 to 02.00

Thursday 09.00 to 03.00

Friday and Saturday 09.00 to 03.30

 

For the category L – Late Night Refreshment (Indoors and Outdoors)

Monday to Wednesday 23.00 to 02.30

Thursday 23.00 to 03.00

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