Democracy | Licensing (Activities) Sub-Committee

Licensing (Activities) Sub-Committee – 2 October 2018

Chairman: To be appointed
Venue: The Council Chamber, Civic Centre, Ashby Road, Scunthorpe
Time: 2 pm
E-mail Address: sophie.whipps@northlincs.gov.uk

AGENDA

1.       Appointment of Chairman.
2.       Declarations of disclosable pecuniary interests, personal or personal and prejudicial interests, and significant contact with applicants, objectors or third parties (lobbying), if any.
3.       Licensing Act 2003 –Application for the grant of a premises licence at Marabou Supermarket, 240-242 Frodingham Road, Scunthorpe.
4.       Any other items which the chairman decides are urgent by reason of special circumstances which must be specified.

MINUTES

PRESENT: – Councillors Armitage, Glover and C Sherwood.

The sub-committee met at the Civic Centre, Scunthorpe.

1536 CHAIRMAN – Resolved – That Councillor C Sherwood be and he is hereby appointed chairman for the meeting.

Councillor Sherwood thereupon took the chair.

1537 DECLARATIONS OF DISCLOSABLE PECUNIARY INTERESTS, PERSONAL OR PERSONAL AND PREJUDICIAL INTERESTS AND SIGNIFICANT CONTACT WITH APPLICANTS, OBJECTORS OR THIRD PARTIES (LOBBYING) – The following member declared a personal interest –

Member	Minute	Nature of Interest
Councillor Armitage	1538	Personal licence holder

No lobbying was declared.

1538 (15) LICENSING ACT 2003 – APPLICATION FOR THE GRANT OF A PREMISES LICENCE, MARABOU SUPERMARKET, 240-242 FRODINGHAM ROAD, SCUNTHORPE – The Director: Operations submitted a report advising members of an application for the grant of a premises licence at the Marabou Supermarket, 240-242 Frodingham Road, Scunthorpe.

Details of the application were outlined in the report, together with the application for the grant of a premises licence and representations received from the council’s Trading Standards department and five Interested Persons.

The Director in his report reminded the sub-committee that the options available to it under the Licensing Act 2003 when considering such applications were:

To refuse to grant the licence.
To grant the licence with additional conditions
To grant the licence without additional conditions
To grant the licence but restrict the licensable activities
To grant the licence with restricted times

The applicants legal representative, Trading Standards and four Interested Persons addressed the sub-committee and responded to questions.

Following the summary of the case, the meeting was adjourned for deliberation by members and then reconvened when the decision of the sub-committee was stated as follows: –

Resolved – That after careful consideration of all the information contained within the agenda bundle, and after listening to all the information presented before it at the hearing, the sub-committee agreed that the application be granted subject to the following conditions:

1) Condition 1 – That the conditions agreed between the applicant and the responsible authority Trading Standards which were contained within the agenda bundle at appendix C be adhered to and incorporated within the premises licence.

This was to ensure the protection and safety of all patrons and local residents and to adhere to the prevention of crime and disorder, public safety, the prevention of public nuisance and the protection of children from harm licensing objectives: and

2) Condition 2 – That the operating schedule shall be as follows

(a) Supply of alcohol off the premises to be from 07:00 hours till 23:00 hours Monday to Saturday

(b) Supply of alcohol off the premises to be from 08:00 hours till 23:00 hours on a Sunday

This was to minimise any late night disturbance to the local residents and to adhere to the prevention of public nuisance licensing objective.