Agenda and draft minutes

To appoint a Chair for the Licensing (Hearings) Sub-Committee meeting.

The Sub-Committee unanimously agreed that Councillor Neil Dallen be appointed as Chair of the meeting.

To receive declarations of any Disclosable Pecuniary Interests or other registrable or non-registrable interests from Members in respect of any item to be considered at the meeting.

No declarations of any disclosable pecuniary interests or other registrable or non-registrable interests were made by Members in response of any items considered at the meeting.

Members are requested to determine an application for a premises licence where the authority has received relevant representation.

The Sub-Committee received a report to determine an application for a premises licence for 182 Kingston Road, Epsom KT19 0SF, and where the authority had received relevant representation.

The Principal Licensing Officer introduced the report.  Within his introduction he stated the following:

a)    He stated that the hours requested within the application was for serving refreshments both indoors and outdoors from 11pm to 1am on Sunday to Thursday and until 1.30am on Fridays and Saturdays as well as Christmas and New Year’s Eve.

b)    Page 31 of the agenda pack shows the applicant’s proposals for promoting the licencing objectives and these would be made into enforceable conditions if application was granted.

c)    One objection had been received and although the objector was not in attendance the sub-committee must consider this objection in their deliberations.

d)    The Applicant had submitted further evidence following agenda publication which had been shared with the sub-committee.  This included a letter of support from a local resident and because this had been received outside of the timescale for representations the supporter had not been invited to speak today.

e)    The Applicant has confirmed they would provide a food delivery service using their own drivers.  The Applicant had also confirmed that the seating area as shown on plans would be used for waiting customers as well as drivers waiting for deliveries.

The Sub-Committee invited other parties to ask questions of the Principal Licensing Officer. 

a)    No parties had any questions to ask of the Principal Licensing Officer.

The Sub-Committee asked questions of the Principal Licensing Officer.

a)    The sub-committee asked if there had been any formal complaints of noise or disturbance in that area.  It was confirmed that neither Licensing nor Environmental Health had received any complaints against the premises.

b)    The sub-committee asked for clarification on the outdoors provision.  It was confirmed that this was a takeaway and outdoors related to the delivery service only. No provision was made for eating indoors or outdoors.

The Sub-Committee invited the Applicant to make an opening submission.  The Licensing Consultant (Applicant’s representative) provided an opening submission on behalf of the Applicant.

a)    The Applicant’s representative explained that Pizza GoGo which is located beside this premises had a late license.  He also stated that a letter of support from the resident above the premises was submitted and could not understand why the other resident had objected.

The Licensing Consultant responded to questions and comments from the Sub-Committee on behalf of the Applicant.

a)    There were no questions from the sub-committee to the Applicant’s Representative.

The Sub-Committee invited other parties to ask questions of the Applicant. 

a)    There were no other parties.

The Licensing Consultant responded to questions from the Sub-Committee’s Legal Advisor on behalf of the applicant:

a)    In respect of the objector’s statement of a noisy fan and noisy youths outside the Licensing Consultant confirmed that there was little noise from this premises, and the resident upstairs had not indicated this was an issue. He also stated that a  ...  view the full minutes text for item 9.