Agenda and minutes

To appoint a Chairman for the purposes of this meeting.

RESOLVED: That Councillor Thaya Idaikkadar be appointed Chairman of the Licensing Panel Hearing.

To receive declarations of personal or prejudicial interests, arising from business to be transacted at this meeting, from:

(a)               all Members of the Committee, Sub Committee, Panel or Forum;

(b)               all other Members present in any part of the room or chamber.

RESOLVED: To note that there were no declarations of interests made.

[Note:  Licensing Panel minutes are:-

(1)               approved following each meeting by the Members serving on that particular occasion and signed as a correct record by the Chairman for that meeting;

(2)               not submitted to the next panel meeting for approval.

Reasons: The Licensing Panel is constituted from a pooled membership. Consequently, a subsequent Panel meeting is likely to comprise a different Chairman and Members who took no part in the previous meeting’s proceedings. The process referred to at (1) above provides appropriate approval scrutiny].

(See Note at conclusion of these minutes).

To receive any questions, petitions or deputations (if any), under the provisions of Committee Procedure Rules 17, 15 and 16 (Part 4B) of the Constitution respectively.

[Note: These items are qualified by the requirements of the licensing legislation and will not be applicable to applications on the current agenda.]

RESOLVED:  To note that no public questions were put, or petitions or deputations received at this meeting under the provisions of Committee Procedure Rules 19, 16 and 17 (Part 4B of the Constitution) respectively.

Procedure to be followed at an oral hearing.

The Chairman asked the Panel Members, officer/s, Responsible Authority/ies and other attendees at the meeting to introduce themselves and then outlined the procedure for the conduct of an oral hearing, which was set out in the agenda.

Report of the Corporate Director, Community & Environment.

In attendance:

Following introductions and presentation of the report by the Licensing officers, the licence holder’s representative, Mr Hopkins, objected to Councillor Bond, Headstone North Ward Councillor, making representations on behalf of his constituents, the Stockwells, on the ground that no such notification had been received by his client.

In response, the Licensing Officer and the Council’s Legal Adviser stated that the legislation allowed Ward Councillors to make representations on behalf of their constituents and no advance notification was required.

Following the hearing of representations from all parties present and the receipt of a record sheet entitled ‘Harrow Council – Out of Hours Noise Investigation’, photographs showing the number of patrons/public outside JDs Lounge taken from a mobile phone by one of the two Environmental Health Officers who were acting as witnesses at the Panel hearing, an email from Mr Graham Hopkins to Sergeants Davis and Crump setting out various draft conditions on which the Panel sought clarification during its deliberations, it was

RESOLVED:  That, having taken into account the provisions of the Licensing Act 2003, guidance issued under Section 182 of the Licensing Act, 2003, the Licensing objectives, Harrow Council’s Licensing Policy, the Human Rights Act, 1998, Section 17 of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998, the principals of natural justice, and having considered all representations, the Panel have decided to modify the premises licence hours of opening and conditions as follows:

All licensable activities to cease half an hour before the above closing times.

Conditions

·                     Condition 1, Annex 2 of the agenda, be amended to read as follows:

‘The CCTV system to be maintained and operated in good order and to the satisfaction of the Metropolitan Police’s reasonable requests as documented in the Harrow Police Security Recommendations document.  The medium upon which the images are recorded will be clearly identifiable, stored securely, retained for a period of not less than 31 days if analogue and not less than 14 days if digital, and will be made available to Council and Police Officers on request.’

·                     Condition 2, Annex 2 of the agenda, be retained.

·                     Condition 3, Annex 2 of the agenda, be  ...  view the full minutes text for item 66.