Agenda and minutes

RESOLVED:  That Councillor Mrs Chika Amadi be appointed Chair of the Licensing Panel.

A potential conflict of interest was disclosed by Councillor Hinkley of the Panel in respect of how well he knew one of the Objectors.  The Applicant was content to proceed with the hearing following the disclosure of the specific nature of that interest.

[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 Chair 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 Chair and Members who took no part in the previous meeting’s proceedings. The process referred to at (1) above provides appropriate approval scrutiny].

Report of the Corporate Director, Community

RESOLVED:  That the premises licence in respect of MIR Food Centre 2, 88?92 High Street, Wealdstone, Harrow, Middlesex, HA3 7AH, be varied subject to the following timings and conditions:

Hours Open to the Public and for Licensable Activities

Hours open to the Public

Sale of retail alcohol

Conditions  (which will form Annex 3 of the Licence):

1.            An SIA licensed door supervisor must be present on the Premises between the hours of 12.00 am and 7.00 am, when the Premises is open during these hours, for a period of 12 months from the granting of this variation.  The officers of the Licensing Authority will review whether there remains a need for a door supervisor at the Premises at the expiration of the 12 month period and determine for what, if any, further period a door supervisor must be provided for.  The officers of the Licensing Authority will review whether there remains an ongoing need for a door supervisor at the end of each and every period of extension.   

2.            Deliveries of goods and collections of rubbish from the Premises are only permitted between the hours of 8.00 am and 8.00 pm.

3.            Any person loitering or consuming alcohol outside the front, rear, or flank wall of the Premises will be asked to move on by the staff of the Premises.

4.            At least one member of staff present on each shift must have received external training on conflict management.

REASONS:

The Panel 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 considerations in Section 17 of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998

The Panel heard that neither the Applicant nor the Objectors had received the additional witness statements circulated by the Police on the morning of 20 February 2017.  Copies were circulated at the meeting and the parties given time to read them.  The Applicant made an application for the witness statements to be excluded on the basis that they contained a substantial amount of information which the Applicant had not had the opportunity to prepare submissions in response to.  Given that none of the parties had seen the statements of PS Crown and PCSO Campbell the Panel resolved to exclude them from proceedings and they were not considered.

Although the Panel were sympathetic to the difficulties faced by residents in the Wealdstone area, the Panel resolved to grant the application as sought, albeit with further  ...  view the full minutes text for item 118.