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 declarations 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 CJ’s Snooker Club and Bar, 2 The Crescent, Selby, YO8 4PU.  The hearing had been necessitated by representations which had been received from seven members of the public.

The Sub-Committee heard that the application was to permit the sale of alcohol and regulated entertainment, namely, live and recorded music; the performance of dance and late-night refreshment at the designated premises, on any day of the week, between the times as detailed within the report.

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. Additionally, Environmental Health and the applicant had agreed to the removal of the mention of a beer garden from the conditions, as there was no beer garden. The necessary amendments had been incorporated into the operating schedule following these representations and formed the conditions of any granted licence.

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.

Members noted that the seven people who had made representations against the application had all objected on the grounds of the prevention of public nuisance objective.

In response to a Member query regarding the maximum number of patrons allowed in the premises at any one time, the Licensing Manager explained that this aspect was regulated by, and onus placed upon, the Fire Authority rather than the licensing authority and was therefore not part of the consideration for the Licensing Committee.

Further questions were asked regarding the possible removal of the railings to the front of the premises on New Street, and the perceived parking of cars on double yellow lines to the rear of the premises in Park Row, the Chairman advised the representors that neither matter was part of the consideration for the Licensing Sub-Committee, as they fell under the remit of North Yorkshire Highways.

The Sub-Committee listened to evidence from the applicant, Mr Yazicioglu, and evidence in support of the relevant representations from two members of the public. 

Mr Yazicioglustated that he had perused the individual representations received by the Council from local residents and, in his opinion, the main concerns related to parked cars and the use of the exit door to the rear of the premises.  As had been previously highlighted, car parking was not a consideration in the application, and in terms of the rear exit door, it was confirmed that this would be used, by patrons, for  ...  view the full minutes text for item 15.