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Declarations of interest To receive any declarations
of interest. Minutes: No declarations of disclosable pecuniary interests were made at the meeting. |
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Welcome and introductions Minutes: Cllr Beer was the Chairman of the Sub-Committee, he welcomed everyone and introductions by all parties were made. The Chairman outlined the procedure to be followed for the meeting and the order of addressing the councillors present. |
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To consider a report of the
Licensing Officer. Additional documents:
Minutes: The Licensing Team Leader set out the report for a Temporary
Event Notice (TEN) highlighting the differences between the Premises Licence
and the TEN that had been submitted, she
explained that the TEN was a notice of an event served on the authority by the
applicant, the authority was only obliged to intervene if there was an
objection from the Local Police or Environmental Health. She re-iterated the three decision options for the committee which were detailed within the report and that a TEN sat on top of a Premises Licence so the committee could impose any of the conditions detailed in the Premises Licence into the TEN. There was some conflicting information relating to timings within the TEN application which was also slightly more restrictive than the Premises Licence which covered the same piece of land, there had been one Police objection to the TEN. The Applicant explained that he had applied for the Premises
Licence in case they decided to expand the events business. They had not operated from one before and
sought the security of a TEN because they had operated this way for the past 5
years, this is what they felt comfortable with. They had already secured a TEN for their May
and August events and wished to continue using this method. Environmental Health had advised them to
apply for a Premises Licence. The Police Licensing Officer addressed the committee, he
advised that if the Police Authority was not comfortable with a TEN they could
ask for conditions to be attached to it, it was not usually possible to get
conditions attached to a TEN if there was no Premises Licence in place. As there was a Premises Licence in place for
this venue it was within the committee’s gift to decide which of the conditions
from the Premises Licence could be attached to the TEN The EH Manager
advised that there had been a number of events held at the site and a number of
noise complaints, an Abatement Notice had been served which was appealed to the Magistrates Court to try and reach an
arrangement to continue with the events without causing inconvenience to
neighbours, however the Authority had still received some complaints and still
had concerns The Licensing Team Leader reminded the committee that the decision was for them to decide which conditions they felt appropriate to be added to the TEN. The Applicant told the committee that the venue had been
monitored over a number of events, and he had been working with a member of the
Environmental Health Team to reduce the noise levels, however there was a
history to the complaints. He had
offered mediation which had been
refused, he had put an earth bund up and
incorporated other measures to reduce the effect of sound, this was just a
small family event with approximately 400 tickets sold. In response to a member question the Applicant re-iterated that as he had always run the events with a TEN in ... view the full minutes text for item 18. |
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Urgent items To consider any items of
business which the Chairman has had prior notification and considers to be
urgent pursuant to section 100B (4) b) of the Local Government Act 1972. The
reason for the urgency shall be recorded in the minutes. Minutes: There were no urgent items. |
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Exempt Business To move the exclusion of the press and the public
for the following item in view of the likely disclosure of exempt information
within the meaning of paragraph 3 of schedule 12 A to the Local Government Act
1972 (as amended). The public and the press will be asked to leave the
meeting whilst the item of business is considered. There is no scheduled exempt business for this
meeting Minutes: There was no exempt business. |