Agenda and draft minutes

To elect a Member to act as Chair of the meeting.

It was proposed, and seconded, that Councillor Richard Sweeting be elected as Chair for this meeting.

RESOLVED:

To appoint Councillor Richard Sweeting as Chair for this meeting.

There were no apologies for absence.

A copy of the Register of Interest for each Selby District Councillor is available for inspection at www.selby.gov.uk.

Councillors should declare to the meeting any disclosable pecuniary interest in any item of business on this agenda which is not already entered in their Register of Interests. Councillors should leave the meeting and take no further part in the consideration, discussion or vote on any matter in which they have a disclosable pecuniary interest.

Councillors should also declare any other interests. Having made the declaration, provided the other interest is not a disclosable pecuniary interest, the Councillor may stay in the meeting, speak and vote on that item of business.

If in doubt, Councillors are advised to seek advice from the Monitoring Officer.

There were no disclosures of interest.

To confirm the procedure to be followed at the meeting.

The Committee noted the Licensing hearing procedure.

To receive the report from the Licensing Manager, which asks Members to determine an application for a premises licence, which has been made under the Licensing Act 2003.

The Chair introduced all the parties present at the meeting and summarised the Licensing hearing procedure which had been circulated as part of the agenda pack. All parties confirmed that they had received a copy of the hearing procedure.

The Licensing Manager presented the report which outlined the details of the application for the determination of a premises licence for Eighty 1 Café Ltd, 81 Brook Street, Selby, YO8 4AT.  Members were made aware of an error on page one of the report, the address of the premises was 81 Brook Street, and not 8 Brook Street, as stated.  The hearing had been necessitated by a representation which had been received from a member of the public.  

The Sub-Committee heard that the application was to permit the sale of alcohol at the designated premises, on any day of the week, between the times as detailed within the report, with no seasonal variations.

The Licensing Manager informed Members that conditions had been agreed between North Yorkshire Police and the applicant and Environmental Health and the applicant following representations made by the responsible authorities. The necessary amendments had been incorporated into the operating schedule following these representations and formed the conditions of any granted licence.

Members noted that the person who had made the representation against the application had objected on the grounds of the prevention of public nuisance objective.  It was further noted that letters and a petition in support of the application had also been received and were contained within the agenda pack.

It was confirmed that a consultation had been carried out by the applicant in accordance with the Act and the Licensing Act 2003 (Premises Licences and Club Premises Certificates) Regulations 2005, and that the applicant had complied with all the statutory requirements.

The Sub-Committee listened to evidence from the applicant, Mr Wright, and evidence in support of the relevant representation from a member of the public.

Mr Wright advised Members that he had held a personal liquor licence for a period of twenty years and, during this time, had managed six venues within the Selby area, and clarified that although he had operated live music establishments in the past, this was not the intention for this premises.

Mr Wright confirmed that the aim of the application for the premises licence was to provide a café and lounge bar with a small outside seating area to create a relaxed, European café environment, which would serve alcohol through the day with food, and open on a Friday and Saturday evening.  It was explained that the intention was to appeal to customers walking from the Brayton area of Selby in the early evening, to encourage people to stop and take refreshments at the premises on the way into Selby town.

The Sub-Committee heard that no food or drink would be served in the outside seating area after 9.00 pm, at this time the area would only be used by customers as a smoking area, last time for  ...  view the full minutes text for item 10.