Agenda and minutes

Councillor Paul Toleman was elected as Chair.

The Chair introduced the Members of the Sub-Committee and Officers in attendance and asked the Applicant and Responsible Authority (Police) to introduce themselves at the appropriate time.

He then explained that following the presentation of the Officer’s report, the Applicant would have an opportunity to present their case followed by the Responsible Authority. There would be an opportunity for questions following each of the above stages before each party had an opportunity to sum up with the Applicant being last to speak. Members of the Sub-Committee would then withdraw to consider their decision.

In addition to the Members of the Sub-Committee and Council officers in attendance the following were present:

Applicant:-

Mr Stephen Turley

Mrs Christine Turley

Responsible Authority (Police):-

PC Andy Cook, Licensing Manager, Gloucestershire Constabulary

Mr Paul Trott, Solicitor, Gloucestershire Constabulary

Sargent Lovell, Gloucestershire Constabulary

Mr David Lewis, Licensing Officer, Gloucestershire Constabulary

To receive from Members, declarations as to personal and/or prejudicial interests and the nature of those interests in relation to any agenda item. Please see Notes 1 and 2 overleaf.

There were no declarations of interest.

Report of the Group Manager, Environmental Health and Regulatory Services

1. The City Council’s Report

The Licensing and Enforcement Officer presented a report on the application for a variation of a premises licence made under section 34 of the Licensing Act 2003 for 114–118 Eastgate Street, Gloucester GL1 1QT, received from Mr Stephen Michael Turley and Mrs Christine Joanne Turley. The application requested an extension of the hours for the provision of regulated entertainment, the retail sale of alcohol and the provision of late night refreshment in respect of Libertys Sports Bar and Hi Jinks Soft Play Area. It also requested that the closed door policy on New Years Eve be removed.

Members were advised of two corrections to the report.  The Ward which the application related to was ‘Westgate’ and not ‘Barnwood’.  Paragraph 6.3 should have referred to Section 3, 4, 5 and 6 i.e. reference to Section 4 had been omitted in 6.3.

The site comprised an American style sports bar/diner featuring a bar, a separate hot food servery and fixed seating, with a large soft play area for children connected to it with a small refreshment counter.

The following variations to licensable activities were requested:

            The Provision of regulated entertainment

·           Films – a new terminal hour of 04.00 everyday

·           Live Music from 10.00 until 04.00 everyday

·           Recorded Music - a new start time of 09.00 and a new terminal hour of 04.00 every day.

·           Performance of Dance – a new terminal hour of 04.00 everyday

·           Anything of a Similar Description (to music or dance above) – a new terminal hour of 04.00 everyday

·           Provision of Facilities for Dancing – a new terminal hour of 04.00 every day.

            The Provision of Late Night Refreshment

·           23.00 until 05.00 everyday

            Sale by Retail of Alcohol

·           A new terminal hour of 04.00 everyday

            It was requested that a condition referring to a closed door policy on New Year’s Eve be removed.

The Operating Schedule

The Licensing and Enforcement Officer drew the Sub-Committee’s attention to sections of the Applicant’s Operating Schedule which were to be ignored as they related to ‘Hi Jinks’ and confirmed that Members only needed to consider variations to the licensable activities for Libertys Sports Bar.

The Applicant had completed Box ‘K’ referring to the provision of entertainment facilities of a similar description to dancing from 10.00 until 21.00 every day.  This was also to be disregarded as the existing licence covered this activity.  The Applicant had set out in Section ‘P’ of the operating schedule measures which were already in operation to promote the four licensing objectives and which formed part of the comprehensive set of conditions attached to the existing licence.

The Licensing and Enforcement Officer reminded Members that they were being asked to agree the extension of licensing hours for regulated entertainment and sale of alcohol from a terminal hour of 1 am to 4 am, seven days a week.  The Applicant was also requesting if the ‘closed door’ policy for New Year’s Eve could be lifted to enable customers to go in and out.

Representations  ...  view the full minutes text for item 8.