Agenda and minutes

Licensing Panel - Wednesday 2 March 2016 7.00 pm

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

Contact: Krusha Cholera, Electoral & Democratic Services Assistant  Tel: 020 8424 1810 E-mail:  krusha.cholera@harrow.gov.uk

Items
No. Item

50.

Appointment of Chair

To appoint a Chair for the purposes of this meeting.

Minutes:

That Councillor Adam Swersky be appointed Chair of the Licensing Panel Hearing.

51.

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 interests made by Members.

52.

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).

53.

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, Friday   26th February 2016. 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.

54.

Licensing Procedures pdf icon PDF 65 KB

Procedure to be followed at an oral hearing.

Additional documents:

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

55.

Application for a new premises licence in respect of 'Pami News, 21 Kenton Park Parade, Kenton Road, Harrow, Middlesex, HA3 8DQ' pdf icon PDF 185 KB

Report of the Corporate Director – Community.

 

Additional documents:

Minutes:

In attendance:

 

Legal Adviser:

Rochelle White

Licensing Officers:

 

Jeffrey Leib   (Principal Licensing Officer

Ash Waghela (Licensing Officer)

Applicant:

 

SinnathuraiRasaratnam

Applicant’s agent:

Suresh Kanapathi

Petitioners Representative:

Chunilal Shah

 

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 to GRANT the premises licence as sought subject to the following timings and the conditions contained in Annex 2 with amendment to condition 8 as below.

 

Hours Open to the Public and Licensable Activities

Hours open to the Public

Sunday to Thursday 06.00-00.00

Friday to Saturday 06.00-02.00

Sale of retail alcohol

 

Amendment to condition 8

8.         The premises licence holder shall ensure that all CCTV recordings shall be stored for a minimum period of 31 days with the date and time stamping.  Recordings shall be made available following the reasonable request of Police or authorised officers of the Licensing Authority under the Data Protection Act 1998 throughout the preceding 28 day period.

 

Reasons:  The Panel considered that the measures taken above were appropriate and proportionate in the circumstances to promote all the licensing objectives.

 

Right of appeal:  Any party aggrieved with the decision of the Licensing Panel on one or more of the grounds set out in schedule 5 of the Licensing Act 2003 may appeal to the Magistrates’ court within 21 days of notification of the decision.