Agenda and minutes

To elect a Chairman for the meeting and the Chairman to present and explain the procedure for the meeting.

Proposed by Cllr Bown, seconded by Cllr Monks.

Decision: that Cllr Williams elected as Chair for the duration of the meeting.

To receive any apologies for absence.

An apology for absence was received from Cllr Jane Somper.

To disclose any pecuniary, other registrable or non-registrable interests as set out in the adopted Code of Conduct. In making their disclosure councillors are asked to state the agenda item, the nature of the interest and any action they propose to take as part of their declaration.

If required, further advice should be sought from the Monitoring Officer in advance of the meeting.

No declarations of disclosable pecuniary interests were made at the meeting.

An application has been made to review the club premises certificate for the Royal British Legion, Corfe Mullen, Dorset. The application has been out to public consultation and representations have been received. A Licensing Sub-Committee must consider the application and representations at a public hearing. 

The Licensing Team Leader addressed the Sub-Committee. The application was to review the premises licence which brought before the Committee due to noise and mainly due to soundchecks and post event dispersal. Both Parties last week reached a position, and a set of conditions was agreed by both parties and published as supplementary information. She covered the agreed conditions, and she explained the effect of a temporary event notice (TEN) and the circumstances in which conditions could be added to a TEN, namely that a representation would first have to be made by the Police or Environmental Protection.

Professor Roy Light, Counsel for the applicant addressed the Sub-Committee. He was delighted that an agreement had been reached.[AP1]  In negotiating the agreement, they had looked at the Council’s policy which required the impacts on local residents, the licence holder and users of the premises to be considered and they had worked really hard to get that balance right.  He said that the applicants recognised the Club was a valuable community asset and did not want it to be closed or for the Licence to be taken away but for a balance to be struck around late night/early morning opening.  He said that they considered that the proposed conditions were appropriate and reasonable in accordance with the licencing objectives.

Philip Day, Solicitor for the Club, addressed the Sub-Committee. He said the Club was relieved that an agreement had been reached on this long running matter.  He said the majority of proposed conditions had already been implemented by the Club and the agreement reached would formalise those.  He said there had been a couple of sticking points towards the end of last week and was grateful to the Licensing Team Leader for her help in resolving those.

In response to questions, the senior lawyer advised that the Sub-committee was not bound to follow the agreement reached by the parties but if it was minded to reach a different decision it should seek the parties view on other options it was considering.

Decision: To VARY the times when Qualifying Club Activities can take place to:

Exhibition of films (indoors)

Monday – Sunday 0800 – 2300 hours and

New Year’s Eve 0800 – 0100 hours (on 1 January)

Indoor sporting events

Monday – Sunday 0800 – 2300 hours and

New Year’s Eve 0800 – 0100 hours (on 1 January)

Performance of live music (indoors)

Monday – Sunday 0800 – 2300 hours and

New Year’s Eve 0800 – 0100 hours (on 1 January)

Playing of recorded music (indoors)

Monday – Sunday 0800 – 2300 hours and

New Year’s Eve 0800 – 0100 hours (on 1 January)

Performance of dance (indoors)

Monday – Sunday 0800 – 2300 hours and

New Year’s Eve 0800 – 0100 hours (on 1 January)

Entertainment of a similar description to the above (indoors)

Monday – Sunday 0800 – 2300 hours and

New Year’s Eve 0800 – 0100 hours (on 1 January)

Provision of facilities for making music (indoors)

Monday – Sunday  ...  view the full minutes text for item 4.

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.

There were no urgent items.

There is no exempt business.

There was no exempt business.