Agenda and minutes

Councillor Taylor as Vice Chair welcomed all attendees to the meeting and explained the order of the meeting.

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

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

To receive and agree the minutes of the meetings held on Wednesday 14 December 2022 and Wednesday 4 January 2023.

AGREED the minutes of the meetings held on Wednesday 14^th December 2022 and Wednesday 4 January 2023 as a correct record.

Review Application

Due to the Chair (Councillor Esin Gunes), who was unable to attend the hearing, it was not possible to consider this review application. Ellie Green (Principal Licensing Officer) apologised and explained that the hearing could not take place with only 2 Members of the Licensing Sub-Committee. Ellie Green thanked all parties for giving up their time this morning and that the review hearing would be adjourned and that a new date for the Skewd Kitchen review hearing would be arranged.

Review Application

RECEIVED the application made by Licensing Authority for a review of the Premises Licence (LN/201500538) held by Mr Shadov Zomorodian at the premises known as and situated at Late Night Food off Licence, 87 Silver Street, Edmonton, N18 1RP.

NOTED

1.    The introduction by Ellie Green, Principal Licensing Officer, including:

a.    The application was for a review of the premises licence for premises known as Late Night Food off Licence, 87 Silver Street, Edmonton, N18 1RP.

a.    The Premises Licence Holder for this premises is Mr Shadov Zomorodian officially since 6 May 2020. and he also become the Designated Premises Supervisor, referred to as DPS, since 31 October 2022.

b.    The review application for Late Night Food off Licencehas been submitted as the Licensing Authority believes that Mr Shadov Zomorodian is not promoting the prevention of crime and disorder licensing objectives. A wide range of unlawful activity has taken place whilst Mr Zomorodian has been the premises licence holder, despite advice to prevent such activity having been provided by the Council previously. The unlawful activity includes:

·         illicit tobacco has been found on the premises on three occasions.

·         breaches of licence conditions.

c.    The review application and supporting documents can be found from page 189 of the agenda. No other representations were made.

d.    The review application seeks to revoke the premises licence in its entirety. Should the Licensing Committee decide not to revoke the licence in its entirety, the Licensing Authority has proposed one additional condition be added to the premises licence, as detailed at Annex 4 (Page 263) of the agenda pack.

2.    The statement on behalf of Charlotte Palmer (Senior Licensing Enforcement Officer) by Amanda Butler (Senior Fair-Trading Officer).

a.   This review application is to revoke the premises licence of Mr Shadov Zomorodian, Premises Licence Holder (PLH) and Designated Premises Supervisor (DPS) of Late-Night Food Off Licence, 87 Silver Street, London, N18 1RP.

b.  The Licensing Review is based on the prevention of crime and disorder licence objective and is the result of non-duty paid tobacco being found at the retail premises on 4 October 2022, 24 November 2022 and an alleged sale of illegal cigarettes purchased from the retail premises on 13 October 2022. The PLH has also failed to demonstrate compliance with many of the licence conditions.

c.   The premises licence fee had not been paid for 3 years and the named DPS no longer worked there. These matters had since been rectified. When the current PLH (Shadov Zomorodian) took over the premises (since 6 May 2020), it already had premises licence conditions attached to it to prevent the sale of non-duty paid tobacco, as detailed at pages 183-184 (points 14-18) of the agenda.

d.  An enquiry was received by the Council’s Trading Standards Department (TSD) in September 2021 regarding the alleged sale of cigarettes and vapes to underaged persons. A similar enquiry was made in August 2022 alleging that the premises were selling foreign cigarettes for £6 a packet.  ...  view the full minutes text for item 5.