Agenda and minutes

To appoint a Chair for the purposes of this meeting.

RESOLVED:  That Councillor Ramji Chauhan be appointed Chair of the Licensing Panel Hearing.

To receive declarations of disclosable pecuniary or non pecuniary interests, arising from business to be transacted at this meeting, from all Members present.

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

Procedure to be followed at an oral hearing.

The Chair asked the Panel Members, officers, Responsible Authorities 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 Acting Strategic Director of Culture, Environment and Economy.

Notification of decision following a licensing panel hearing to determine an application for a variation of a premises licence

pursuant to s.34 Licensing Act 2003

PREMISES:  IZZY FOOD CENTRE, 380 Kenton Road, Harrow, HA3 8DP

TO:     The applicant, CB Market Ltd

           All persons who made representations

TAKE NOTICE THAT following a hearing before the Licensing and General Purposes Sub Committee (the “Licensing Panel” or “Panel”) on 8th October 2024

HARROW COUNCIL, as the Licensing Authority for the Premises

RESOLVED AS FOLLOWS:

1.              The Licensing Panel convened on 8^th October 2024 to determine an application to vary an existing premises licence for the IZZY FOOD CENTRE, 380 Kenton Road, Harrow HA3 8DP (the “Premises”).

2.              The Premises are currently licensed for the sale of alcohol for Monday to Sunday 06:00 to 23:00 and are open Monday to Sunday 00:00 to 23:59 (the “Existing Licence”).  A copy of the Existing Licence, which includes licence conditions, is shown in Appendix 1, at pages 11-17 of the Agenda.

3.              The Applicant seeks to vary the licence to vary the hours of the sale of alcohol to match the opening hours, namely Monday to Sunday 00:00 to 23:59 the following day (the “Application”). 

4.              As part of the consultation, the Licensing Authority received a representation from one councillor, understood to be acting on behalf of various residents (“the Objector”). The Objector, Councillor Rabadia provided a petition confirming a request from the residents to lodge objections on their behalf for this Premises which is shown at pages 31 to 33 of the Agenda. The representation submitted by Councillor Rabadia is shown at pages 35 to 37 of the Agenda along with correspondence from the Licensing Team requesting the list of residents whom the petition was submitted on behalf of. The representation reflects concerns with the upholding of the four licencing objectives focussing on the possible risk of increased antisocial behaviour, street drinking, noise nuisance and general unlawful behaviour.

5.              The Panel Members also received a Supplemental Agenda, in which the Applicant submitted a document making reference to crime statistics and data against the residents addresses of whom signed the petition. A further statement rebutting these statistics was submitted by the Objector less than 2 hours before the scheduled start time of the hearing. With this further information received at such a late stage, in accordance with regulation 18 of the Licensing Act 2003 (Hearings) Regulations 2005, the consent of all the other parties at the hearing was sought before the Panel considered this information. The Applicant confirmed they were happy for the Objector to submit the majority of the document produced save for two pages which were accordingly removed.

6.              The Licensing panel 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 Statutory Guidance issued under section 182 of the Licensing Act  ...  view the full minutes text for item 4.