Agenda and minutes

Licensing Panel - Thursday 16 April 2015 10.30 am

Venue: Committee Room 5, Harrow Civic Centre, Station Road, Harrow, HA1 2XY. View directions

Contact: Maria Farrell, Democratic & Electoral Services Officer  Tel: 020 8416 8050 E-mail:  maria.farrell@harrow.gov.uk

Items
No. Item

19.

Appointment of Chair

To appoint a Chair for the purposes of this meeting.

Minutes:

RESOLVED:  That Councillor Varsha Parmar be appointed Chair of the Licensing Panel hearing.

20.

Declarations of Interest

To receive declarations of disclosable pecuniary or non pecuniary interests, arising from business to be transacted at this meeting, from:

 

(a)               all Members of the Panel;

(b)               all other Members present.

Minutes:

RESOLVED:  To note there were no declarations of interest made by Members.

21.

Minutes

 

[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].

Minutes:

(See Note at conclusion of these minutes).

22.

Public Questions, Petitions and Deputations

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.

 

Questions will be asked in the order notice of them was received and there be a time limit of 15 minutes.

 

[The deadline for receipt of public questions is 3.00 pm, Monday 13 April 2015.  Questions should be sent to publicquestions@harrow.gov.uk  

No person may submit more than one question].

 

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

Minutes:

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.

23.

Licensing Procedures pdf icon PDF 66 KB

Procedure to be followed at a review hearing.

Minutes:

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.

RESOLVED ITEMS

24.

Application for a Review of the Premises Licence Held in Respect of Food and Wine Convenience Store, 120 High Street, Wealdstone, Harrow, Middlesex, HA3 7AL pdf icon PDF 124 KB

Report of the Corporate Director of Environment and Enterprise.

Additional documents:

Minutes:

In attendance:

 

Legal Adviser:

Harinder Dhaliwal

Democratic Services Officer:

Maria Farrell

Licensing Officer:

 

Peter Coates

Ash Waghela

Relevant Representations:

Rory Clarke

Applicant for Review:

PC Jasvinder Virdi – Metropolitan Police

Licensee:

Janani Sritharan

Licensee Representative:

Graham Hopkins, GT Licensing Consultants

SinnathambySritharan

 

RESOLVED: That, having carefully considered all the relevant information including:

 

·                     written and oral representations by all the parties

·                     the Licensing Act 2003 and the steps that are appropriate to promote the licensing objectives

·                     the Guidance issued under section 182 of the Licensing Act 2003

·                     Harrow Council’s Licensing Policy

·                     Human Rights Act 1998

 

the Panel agreed that the License be revoked.

 

Reasons: The Panel considered that the decision promoted the licensing objectives of the prevention of crime and disorder, public safety and the protection of children from harm.