Chichester District Council
Agenda and minutes

Agenda and minutes

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Items
No. Item

55.

To elect a Chairman for this Hearing

Minutes:

Ms Di Lauro opened the hearing and confirmed her role within the hearing as the Licensing Lawyer. She explained that her role was to advise the Sub- Committee and to ensure that procedure is followed in accordance with Regulations under the Licensing Act 2003. Ms Di Lauro  confirmed that she would retire with the Sub-Committee, subject to no objection, in order to ensure that the Principles of Natural Justice were adhered to in the decision making process and to provide any other legal advice, as required. Ms Di Lauro explained that should any advice be provided to the Sub-Committee once they had retired to consider the application, it would be recorded in the decision notice.

 

It was proposed by Cllr Sutton and seconded by Cllr McAra that Cllr Bangert be elected as the Chairman for this meeting of the Alcohol and Licensing Sub-Committee.

 

Cllr Bangert consented to act as Chair and duly chaired the whole meeting.

 

Cllr Bangert confirmed the purpose of the hearing was to consider a full Premises Licence variation application and confirmed the address of the premises which were subject to the hearing and, which would take place in respect of Agenda Item 3 as; East Walls Hotel, 3 East Row, Chichester, West Sussex, PO19 1PD. 

 

The Chair formally opened the meeting and introduced all those present, including fellow members of the Sub-Committee, officers, the applicant and representors. The Chair informed the Sub-Committee that Mr Cameron was a representor to the original application but had failed to respond to the hearing notice in the given time; she explained that she would allow him to speak if all parties agreed. The Chair consulted with fellow Sub-Committee members and Mrs Kelly on behalf of the applicants, all confirmed that they were happy to allow Mr Cameron to address the hearing.

 

 

 

56.

Declarations of Interests

Members and officers are reminded to make any declarations of disclosable pecuniary, personal and/or prejudicial interests they may have in respect of matters on the agenda for this meeting.

Minutes:

There were no declarations of Interest.

 

57.

Licensing Hearings pdf icon PDF 272 KB

 

East Walls Hotel, 3 East Row, Chichester, West Sussex, PO19 1PD

Application for VARIATION OF A PREMISES LICENCE (Application

Number - 21/00209/LAPRE1)

(a)          Chair opens the Hearing.

(b)          Items arising from Regulation 6 Notice (Notice of Hearing).

(c)          Notice of any representations withdrawn.

(d)          The procedure will then follow the Sub-Committee protocol and    procedure note attached

 

 

 

 

Additional documents:

Minutes:

Preliminary Matters

 

The Sub-Committee followed the procedure set out at page 3 of the document pack. The membership was as set out in the pack.

 

 

Licensing Manager’s Introduction

 

Mr Foord, Divisional Manager for Communications; Licensing & Events outlined details of the application and clarified the basis of the application was to vary an existing licence under the Licensing Act 2003.

 

He explained that the application related to the existing East Walls t Hotel at 3 East Row, Chichester, Mr Foord drew the Sub-Committee’s attention to page 17 of the agenda pack, which provided further detail of the Hotel and how it currently operated.

 

Mr Foord explained that the application being considered seeks to change a condition on the Hotel’s current Premises Licence which had originally been granted (following a hearing) on 3 October 2018. He drew the Sub- Committee’s attention to page 51of the Agenda pack which set out the full Licence that had been granted on 3 October 2018, as well as all the attached conditions. Mr Foord explained that the conditions set out on pages 55 and 56 were attached following the last hearing on 3 October 2018.

 

Mr Foord informed members that the applicants had provided a summary of their application, and drew the Sub-Committee’s attention to page 25 of the Agenda Pack.

 

Mr Foord informed the Sub-Committee, as stated on page 6 of the agenda pack, that the applicants had originally sought to amend Condition 2 of Annexe A as follows;

 

Current: ‘Alcohol may only be sold and/or served to non-guests and non-residents between the hours of 11:00 and 18:00’.

 

Original proposal: ‘Alcohol may only be sold and/or served to non-guests and non-residents between the hours of 11:00 and 23:00.

 

Mr Foord highlighted paragraph 4.5 on page 6 of his report to the Sub- Committee. This paragraph outlined a number of steps that the applicants had proposed in order to promote the four Licensing Objectives under the Licensing Act 2003; Mr Foord explained that these steps would normally be translated into Conditions and attached to any Licence granted. However, he explained that much of what has been outlined by the applicants was already included within Conditions attached to the original licence, and would therefore be automatically incorporated in the varied licence, should the variation be granted.

 

However, the applicants has stated that ‘Alcohol will only be served to those with restaurant reservations’. This would mean that beyond the existing hour of 18:00, non-guests and non-residents would only be sold alcohol where it was associated with a restaurant reservation.

 

Mr Foord confirmed the basis on which the Sub-Committee had been convened was as a result of the Licensing Authority receiving six relevant representations. Of the representations received, the one from Sussex Police has been resolved following mediation, Mr Foord reminded the Sub- Committee that the Police were a Responsible Authority under the 2003 Act and a copy of their original representation and evidence of their agreed condition with the applicants was included within the Agenda Pack at page  ...  view the full minutes text for item 57.

58.

Consideration of any late items as follows:

(a)            items added to the agenda papers and made available for public inspection;

(b)            items which the chairman has agreed should be taken as matters of urgency by reason of special circumstances to be reported at the meeting.

 

Minutes:

There were no late items for consideration.

 

 

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