Agenda and minutes

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

Councillor Savva also apologised for the delay to the start of the meeting which convened at 10:30am.

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 22 February 2023.

AGREED the minutes of the meetings held on Wednesday 22 February 2023 as a correct record.

Review Application

Received the application made by Enfield Council’s Licensing Authority for a review of the Premises Licence (LN/202100333) held by Mr Mazlum Demir at the premises known as and situated at Skewd Kitchen, 113-115 Cockfosters Road, Barnet, EN4 0DA.

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 Skewd Kitchen, 113-115 Cockfosters Road, Barnet, EN4 0DA.

b.    Mr Mazlum Demir is both the Premises Licence Holder (PLH) and the Designated Premises Supervisor (DPS). The licence application was granted/issued by officers on the 8 November 2021 and has only been used as a licence since October 2022 as that is when the premises is thought to have opened.

c.    The review hearing was submitted by the Licensing Enforcement Team on behalf of the Licensing Authority, and they seek to amend conditions of the premises licence in order to support the prevention of public nuisance licensing objective.

This is in response to a number of complaints that the PLH has been unable to control from the noise and music, namely a DJ and statutory noise nuisances have been witnessed.

d.    Local residents have reported that they have been greatly affected by the loud music throughout the week since the premises opened.

e.    There are various conditions which are sought by the Licensing Authority and since been offered by the PLH. But it appears that no final position has been agreed. So, the conditions that are up for discussion at this hearing are presented in Appendix F (from page 165) and it is those new conditions that are not agreed between the parties that require the LSC to make a decision on. These are detailed from Annex 3 & Appendix F (from page 165) of the bundle.

f.     There are no changes being sought to the licensable hours or activities on the current licence. So, the full review application can be seen at Appendix A (Pages 19), Appendix E (Page 159) & Appendix I (Page 193) of the report.

g.    The review attracted representations supporting the review application from the Council’s Commercial Noise Team and from 5 local residents who all live in Braemore Court, which are the residential flats above the commercial parade and above the commercial premises. Those representations are detailed at Appendices C, G & H from pages 95 -171 of the report including the Supplementary report.

h.    The PLH did respond to the review and has submitted a written representation including a noise acoustic report detailed at Appendix D from page 113 of the report.

i.      The existing premises licence does not specify any music as a licensable activity, however due to regulatory changes and later amendments to the Licensing Act 2003, live & recorded music can be provided to an audience of no more than 500 at any one time at any premises licensed for on sales of alcohol between the hours of 08:00am and 11:00pm without being required to be a licensable activity on the  ...  view the full minutes text for item 4.