Agenda for Licensing Sub-Committee on Wednesday, 16th December, 2015, 10.00 am

Agenda and minutes

Venue: Council Chamber, Civic Centre, Silver Street, Enfield, EN1 3XA

Contact: Jane Creer 0208 379 4093 Email: jane.creer@enfield.gov.uk 

Items
No. Item

318.

WELCOME AND APOLOGIES FOR ABSENCE

Minutes:

NOTED that Councillor Bond was unable to attend the meeting and that as a reserve member Councillor Derek Levy as Chair welcomed all those present and explained the order of the meeting.

319.

DECLARATION OF INTERESTS

Members are asked to declare any disclosable pecuniary, other pecuniary or non pecuniary interests relating to items on the agenda.

 

Minutes:

NOTED that there were no declarations of interest in respect of items on the agenda.

320.

ROYAL VENUE, 1 JUTE LANE, ENFIELD, EN3 7PJ (REPORT NO. 147) pdf icon PDF 4 MB

Application for a new premises licence.

Minutes:

RECEIVED the application made by Mr Agron Xhauri for a new Premises Licence at the premises known as and situated at Royal Venue, 1 Jute Lane, Enfield, EN3 7PJ.

 

NOTED

 

1.    The introductory statement of Ellie Green, Principal Licensing Officer, including the following points:

a.  She advised that there were now three different applications to be determined for the same venue, Royal Venue, 1 Jute Lane, Enfield, EN3 7PJ, which was previously known as Club Zeros.

b.  The application for a new premises licence was set out in Report No. 147 in the original agenda. This application had been submitted on 18 October 2015 and was subject to representations from the Police and the Licensing Authority. The Licensing Authority had objected to the hours sought and had proposed reduced hours and additional conditions. The applicant had agreed to the Licensing Authority’s proposed conditions in full and to the proposed hours in part. The Police objected to the new premises licence application in its entirety, but if the sub-committee were minded to grant a licence had requested a number of conditions as set out in Annex 06 of the agenda. The applicant had not indicated if he was in agreement with the proposed conditions.

c.  On the previous afternoon, 15 December 2015, the solicitor for the applicant had sent a list of revised conditions. It was understood that the Police had examined these conditions and were not in agreement, and noted that these conditions were already in the operating schedule, or that the conditions proposed by the Police were stronger.

d.  The second application was for a Temporary Event Notice (TEN) and was set out in Report No. 149 in the supplementary agenda. This notice was for the provision of late night refreshment, supply of alcohol and regulated entertainment in respect of a proposed event at the premises from 20:00 on Thursday 24 December 2015 to 03:30 on Friday 25 December 2015.

e.  A third application was received late yesterday for TEN in respect of a proposed event on New Year’s Eve, from 00:00 to 03:30 on 1 January 2016.

f.  Objections had been received to both of those TENs from the Police and from the Licensing Authority.

g.  Ellie Green advised that the applicant was already aware of the objections to the new premises licence application in November, yet these TENs were submitted in December.

h.  There was a significant licensing history at this premises, as set out on page 1 of the agenda.

 

2.    The statement of Mr Richard Wormald of 3 Raymond Buildings, Barrister on behalf of the Metropolitan Police Service, including the following points:

a.  The Police representations were well set out in the agenda papers.

b.  This was a bad venue. Historically it had suffered a number of problems. The location was problematic: on one side was warehousing, on the other side of the tracks were residential streets. This had led to complaints in the past relating to disorder and noise from people leaving late at  ...  view the full minutes text for item 320.

321.

ROYAL VENUE, 1 JUTE LANE, ENFIELD, EN3 7PJ - GIVING A TEMPORARY EVENT NOTICE (REPORT NO. 149) pdf icon PDF 81 KB

Application for a Temporary Event Notice (TEN).

Additional documents:

Minutes:

Notice was given by Mr Agron Xhauri to use the premises known as and situated at Royal Venue, 1 Jute Lane, Enfield, EN3 7PJ for licensable activities at a proposed event at the premises from 20:00 on Thursday 24 December 2015 to 03:30 on Friday 25 December 2015.

 

NOTED that the Temporary Event Notice was withdrawn at the hearing.

322.

ROYAL VENUE, 1 JUTE LANE, ENFIELD, EN3 7PJ - GIVING A TEMPORARY EVENT NOTICE

Minutes:

Notice was given by Mr Agron Xhauri to use the premises known as and situated at Royal Venue, 1 Jute Lane, Enfield, EN3 7PJ for licensable activities at a proposed event at the premises from 00:00 to 03:30 on Friday 1 January 2016.

 

NOTED that the Temporary Event Notice was considered in parallel with the application for a new premises licence.

 

RESOLVED that

 

1.         In accordance with the principles of Section 100(a) of the Local Government Act 1972 to exclude the press and public from the meeting for this item of business on the grounds that it involves the likely disclosure of exempt information as defined in Paragraph 7 of Part 1 of Schedule 12A to the Act.

 

The Panel retired, with the legal representative and committee administrator, to consider the application further and then the meeting reconvened in public.

 

2.         The Chairman made the following statement:

 

“The application for what, at the hearing, became a single Temporary Event Notice, was rejected on the basis:

(a)  that it was incoherent and provided no details of what the event was to be, and how it was going to run in a way that satisfied the sub-committee that the licensing objectives would be promoted;

(b)  that the reasons given for refusing the application for a new premises licence at the same venue all pertain.”

 

3.         The Licensing Sub-Committee resolved that it is appropriate, for the promotion of the licensing objectives, to give Mr Xhauri a counter notice for the event.

323.

MINUTES OF PREVIOUS MEETING pdf icon PDF 103 KB

To receive and agree the minutes of the meeting held on Wednesday 25 November 2015.

Minutes:

RECEIVED the minutes of the meeting held on Wednesday 25 November 2015.

 

AGREED that the minutes of the meeting held on 25 November 2015 be confirmed and signed as a correct record.