Agenda and minutes

To appoint a Chair to the Panel for the purposes of this meeting.

RESOLVED:  That Councillor Knowles be appointed Chair of the Panel for the purposes of this meeting.

To receive declarations of personal or prejudicial interests, arising from business to be transacted at this meeting, from all Members present.

RESOLVED:  To note that there were no declarations of interests made by Members in relation to the business transacted at this meeting.

To consider whether any of the items listed on the agenda should be considered with the press and public excluded on the grounds that it is thought likely, in view of the nature of the business to be transacted, that there would be disclosure of confidential information in breach of an obligation of confidence or of exempt information as defined in the Local Government (Access to Information) Act 1985.

RESOLVED:  That all items be considered with the press and public present.

a)     That the minutes of the meeting held on 2 March 2005, having been circulated, be taken as read and signed as a correct record,

b)     That the minutes of the meeting held on 11 May 2005, be approved and signed when printed in the Minute Volume.

RESOLVED:  That the minutes of the meeting held on 2 March 2005, having been circulated, be taken as read and signed as a correct record.

[Note: The 2 March 2005 minutes had originally been deferred at a Licensing Panel meeting held on 11 May 2005, then adjourned. The minutes of the 11 May meeting, due to be reconvened on 22 June 2005, would be presented for signing following that date].

To receive questions (if any) from local residents or organisations under the provisions of Committee Procedure Rule 18 (Part 4B of the Constitution).

RESOLVED:  To note that no public questions were put, or petitions or deputations received at this meeting under the provisions of Committee Procedure Rules 18, 15 and 16 (Part 4B of the Constitution) respectively.

Report of the Chief Environmental Health Officer.

The Panel received a report of the Chief Environmental Health Officer which detailed an application made by TLT Solicitors on behalf of Punch Taverns Plc, for the premises licence for Oddfellows Arms Public House, 2 Waxwell Lane, Pinner.

The Chief Environmental Health Officer tabled 2 papers, for ease of reference.  One detailed the existing conditions on the premises’ licence (embedded conditions), and the other detailed the conditions consistent with a converted licence.

The application sought a variation to the existing Justices’ Licence during the transitional period and was before the Panel as a representation had been received from an interested party, whose garden backed onto the rear garden of Oddfellows. The interested party had cited public nuisance, the prevention of which was one of the four Licensing objectives. The objector did not attend the meeting.

Mr Phipps, solicitor representing the applicants, informed the Panel that they had written to the objector inviting him to meet in order to reconcile his objections, but the objector had not responded. Mr Phipps also reminded Members that during the 13 years that the licensee had held the licence, no complaints had been made against the premises in terms of its hours of trade or noise pollution.  His clients were happy to negotiate, however, by way of a compromise. Responding to queries concerning noise escape from live and recorded music, Mr Phipps informed the Panel that the music was controlled by the Manager, who could adjust noise levels when required. Further, the Panel was told that live music was not a regular occurrence and that background music was usually played in the garden.

RESOLVED:  That the variation to the licence as per the application be granted with the existing conditions and the amended conditions set out in the operating schedule, as detailed below:

EXISTING CONDITIONS (to appear on the converted licence)

PERMITTED HOURS

Alcohol shall not be sold or supplied except during permitted hours. In this condition, permitted hours means:

a.  On weekdays, other than Christmas Day, Good Friday or New Year’s Eve, 10 am to 11pm.

b.  On Sundays, other than Christmas Day or New Year’s Eve, 12 noon to 10.30 pm.

c.  On Good Friday, 12 noon to 10.30 pm.

d.  On Christmas Day, 12 noon to 3 pm and 7 pm to 10.30 pm.

e.  On New Year’s Eve, except on a Sunday, 10 am to 11 pm.

f.    On New Year’s Eve on a Sunday, 12 noon to 10.30 pm.

g.   On New Year’s Eve from the end of permitted hours on New Year’s Eve to the start of permitted hours on the following day (or, if there are no permitted hours on the following day, midnight on 31 December).

The above restrictions do not prohibit:

(a)  during the first twenty minutes after the above hours the consumption of the alcohol on the premises;

(b) during the first twenty minutes after the above hours, the taking of the alcohol from the premises unless the alcohol is supplied or taken in an  ...  view the full minutes text for item 35.