Agenda and minutes

Licensing Panel - Tuesday 1 December 2015 7.00 pm

Venue: Committee Rooms 1 & 2, Harrow Civic Centre, Station Road, Harrow, HA1 2XY. View directions

Contact: Vishal Seegoolam  Tel: 020 8424 1883 E-mail:  vishal.seegoolam@harrow.gov.uk

Items
No. Item

37.

Appointment of Chair

To appoint a Chair for the purposes of this meeting.

Minutes:

RESOLVED:  That Councillor Kairul Kareema Marikar be appointed Chair of the Licensing Panel hearing.

38.

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 that there were no declarations of interest made by Members.

39.

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).

40.

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, Thursday

26 November 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.

41.

Licensing Procedures pdf icon PDF 64 KB

Procedure to be followed at an oral hearing.

Minutes:

The Chairman asked the Panel Members, officers 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

42.

Application for a new premises licence in respect of Mumbai Central, 328 High Road, Harrow, Middlesex, HA3 6HS pdf icon PDF 143 KB

Report of the Divisional Director, Commissioning Services.

Additional documents:

Minutes:

In attendance:

 

Legal Adviser:

Andrew Lucas, Lawyer

  

Democratic Services Officer:

Miriam Wearing, Senior Democratic Services Officer

  

Licensing Officer:

 

Maher Khan, Licensing Officer

Ash Waghela, Licensing Officer

  

Applicant:

Bharat Lakhani, Dine India

Rishi Lakhani, Director of Dine India

P Sivashanker, Compliance Direct Ltd

 

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

 

·                     Written and oral representations by all the parties

·                     The Licensing Act 2003

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

·                     Harrow Council’s Licensing Policy

·                     Human Rights Act 1998

 

the Panel agreed to GRANT the premises licence as sought subject to the following timings and conditions:

 

Licensable activities:

Licensable activities and hours open to public

 

Ground Floor

Hours open to the Public

Monday – Sunday 08.00 – 01.00 (the following morning)

Sale of retail alcohol

Monday – Sunday 10.00 – 0.00

Late Night refreshment

Monday – Sunday 23.00 – 0.00

 

Basement Floor

Hours open to the Public

Monday – Sunday 08.00 – 02.00 (the following morning)

Sale of retail alcohol

Monday – Sunday 10.00 – 01.00 (the following morning)

Late Night refreshment

Monday – Sunday 10.00 – 01.30 (the following morning)

Live music, performance of dance, performance of anything similar to live music, recorded music, the performance of dance

Monday – Sunday 10.00 – 01.00 (the following morning)

Recorded music

Monday – Sunday 10.00 – 01.00 (the following morning)

 

Both Floors

Hours open to the public

New Years Eve 08.00 – 04.00 (the following morning)

All licensable activities granted above permitted on both floors

New Years Eve 08.00 – 03.00 (the following morning)

 

Conditions

1.            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 and it will be made available to Council Officers and Metropolitan Police immediately on request.

 

2.            As per Mandatory Conditions – the Licensing Act 2003 (Mandatory Licensing Conditions) (Amendment) Order 2014 the age verification policy shall apply to persons who appear to be under the age of 21 years old (“Challenge 21 Policy”).  All staff shall receive training with regard to the Challenge 21 Policy.  The record will be made available to officers of the Metropolitan Police and the local authority immediately on request.

 

3.            A record of any incident that takes place at the premises which would undermine one or more of the four licensing objectives to be kept at the premises.  The record will be made available to officers of the Metropolitan Police and the local authority immediately on request.

 

4.            All staff will be trained to a suitable level to identify public safety matters and any such concerns will be recorded in the incident book.

 

5.            Prominent, clear and legible notices shall be displayed at the entrance/exit requesting patrons to respect the needs of local residents and to leave the premises and  ...  view the full minutes text for item 42.