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405.

Notification of Chairman and Outline of Procedure

Minutes:

The Chair welcomed everyone to the meeting and asked those present to introduce themselves.

406.

Declarations of Interest

Councillors should not act or take decisions in order to gain financial or other material benefits for themselves, their families or friends.

 

The Chair will ask Members if they have any disclosable pecuniary interests (DPIs) or disclosable non-pecuniary interests (DNPIs) to declare in respect of items on the agenda. Members with a DPI in an item must leave the room for that item and may not participate in the debate or vote. 

 

Aside from disclosable interests, where a fair-minded and informed observer would think there was a real possibility that a Member might be biased or predetermined on an item, the Member should declare this and leave the room while that item is considered.

 

Members who are in any doubt about interests, bias or predetermination should contact the monitoring officer for advice prior to the meeting.

 

Minutes:

No interests were declared.

407.

Application for variation of hours on a premises licence - The Old Wine Vaults, 75 Preston Street, Faversham pdf icon PDF 129 KB

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Minutes:

Swale Borough Council’s (SBC) Licensing Team Leader introduced the report which asked Members to consider an application for the variation of hours on an existing premises licence under the Licensing Act 2003 at The Old Wine Vaults, 75 Preston Street, Faversham.  She outlined the proposed changes to the application as set-out in paragraph 3.2 on page 4 of the report.  

 

The Licensing Team Leader reported that the applicant had submitted additional conditions, however due to an error they had not been included in the report.  She stated that the additional conditions had now been circulated to Members and interested parties.  The Licensing Team Leader explained that during the 28-day consultation period no representations had been received by the responsible authorities, but the Police had requested the amendment of existing conditions under the operations schedule as set-out in paragraph 4.2 on page 5 of the report, and the applicant had agreed those amendments. 

 

The Licensing Team Leader reported that representations against the application had been received from members of the public as set-out in Appendix III of the report.  Objection No. 3 was made by one resident on behalf of six others.  The Licensing Team had contacted those named and five had confirmed that their representation was to be considered/made on their behalf.  The Licensing Team Leader reported that representations had been made on two of the licensing objectives: The Prevention of Crime and Disorder; and the Prevention of Public Nuisance. 

 

The Chair invited the applicant to present their case.

 

Alex Green, solicitor on behalf of the applicant, said that Craft Union Pub Company were very experienced and responsible for approximately 450 premises in the UK.  Mr Green said that The Old Wine Vaults was located within the commercial town centre of Faversham outside of the residential area.   He said that the premises had previously had a mixed reputation, however the current operator and her partner had turned things around nicely and had over 40 years of relevant experience between them.  Mr Green reported that following discussion with the Police, the applicant had agreed to the conditions they had requested namely, that there be compulsory door staff at weekends; comprehensive CCTV to be installed; and no entry or re-entry after 23:30 hours. 

 

Mr Green noted that no representations had been received from any of the responsible authorities.  He drew attention to the representations against the application set-out at Appendix III of the report.  Speaking on Objection No. 1, Mr Green said that with regard to noise, music, and nuisance the Council’s Environmental Health Team raised no objection and the licence already required that the beer garden be closed from 22:30 hours, all doors and windows to be closed by 23:30 hours and recorded music to be reduced to background level 30 minutes prior to licensable hours.  He noted that no complaints about noise from the premises had been made to SBC’s Environmental Health.  Mr Green confirmed that the application had been advertised correctly.  He said that there was no evidence that  ...  view the full minutes text for item 407.

Appendix I - Decision Notice pdf icon PDF 4 MB