Agenda item
Application to Vary the Premises Licence for the Rising Sun, Wimborne
An application has been made to vary the premises licence for the Rising Sun in Wimborne. The application has been out to public consultation and has attracted a relevant representation. A Licensing Sub-Committee must consider the application and representations at a public hearing.
Minutes:
The sub-committee considered an application to vary the premises
licence for the Rising Sun in Wimborne which had attracted relevant
representations following public consultation.
The Licensing Team Leader outlined the application to vary
the licence in order to increase the size of the external area. No changes were
proposed to the existing times or conditions.
The sub-committee asked whether there had been any
complaints and she confirmed that the Environmental Health team were currently
dealing with a complaint, but apart from this, there had been no complaints
received since 2018.
Mr Phillip Day, Solicitor for the applicant, presented the
application which had originated as a result of a routine police visit when it
was noted that the servery in the Sunset Room was outside the area licensed for
the sale of alcohol. Following
consultation with the Dorset Council Licensing Team, a full rather than a minor
variation application had been submitted.
Mr Day referred to some photographs that he had taken the
previous day in response to photographs submitted by the objector. Both sets of
photographs had been circulated to the sub-committee the day before the
meeting.
He highlighted that some objections had been written under
the misapprehension that the application related to a change to the licensing
hours which was not a part of this application.
He highlighted that the existing licence permitted longer hours than was
understood by some objectors or used by the manager who had chosen not to trade
beyond 11pm. He acknowledged that the
premises had a poor reputation before the current manager, Mr Steve Matthews,
took up position and began to make changes that included discontinuing the
Friday and Saturday discos.
Mr Day explained that the effect of including all of the hatched area on the plan (contained in the
report) within the licensed area meant that all of the conditions that applied
to the license would also apply to the external area. This included a condition
to prevent the external licensed area being used for the consumption of alcohol
after midnight.
The car park was no longer open to the public apart from use
of a disabled parking space which meant that neighbours would no longer suffer
from people slamming car doors at night.
The sub-committee asked questions of Mr Day and Mr Matthews
and in response were informed that there would be occasional live music, for
example folk music on a Sunday afternoon, or noise from a large tv screen, but
no discos.
Julia Herbert presented her objection to the application on
behalf of a residents’ group. She stated
that there had been problems with the pub in the past and that residents living
in its vicinity experienced noise and unreasonable behaviour. She felt that
doubling the outside capacity would lead to increased noise nuisance and that
as much as the landlord was trying to make improvements, it would remain
difficult to control customers who left the premises, creating a mess or
urinating in the street.
The sub-committee asked Ms Herbert whether there was regular
noise disturbance at night and she advised that
although not every day, Fridays and Saturdays were particularly noisy. She confirmed that the residents’ group had
raised complaints that were taken forward by people active on the group.
The sub-committee stressed the need for collaboration should
the application be successful and that it would be beneficial for the
residents’ group to have regular meetings with Mr Matthews.
There were no further questions of the parties present.
The Sub-Committee retired to make its decision.
Decision:
To GRANT
the variation application to include within the Premises Licence the
external area shown on the plan marked ‘External Garden Scheme’, submitted with
the application and outlined and hatched in red with the addition of the new
condition as set out below:
New Additional Condition:
A direct telephone number and an email address for the manager at the premises shall be publicly available at all times the premises is open. This telephone number and email address are to be made available to residents in the vicinity.
Supporting documents:
- Application to Vary the Premises Licence for the Rising Sun, Wimborne, item 50. PDF 333 KB
- Appendix 1 - Premises Licence Redacted, item 50. PDF 798 KB
- Appendix 2 - Application Redacted, item 50. PDF 222 KB
- Appendix 3 - Representations Redacted, item 50. PDF 290 KB