Agenda and decisions

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The Committee has considered an application for a new premises licence under the Licensing Act 2003 (“the Application”)

In summary, the Committee has decided, after taking into account all of the individual circumstances of this case and the promotion of the four licensing objectives to:

Grant the application in full with the agreed conditions with the Health and Safety Team and the revised conditions as listed in updated supplementary agenda with the additional modification to the following conditions:

1.    Modify condition 10 to now read as “Town Radio Link shall be in operation in the restaurant, where available, during the times that licensable activities are taking place.”

2.    Modify Condition 25 to add an additional requirement at point (iii) that customers do not park their cars or eat in the residential streets behind the premises

3.    Modify Condition 27 to include litter collection to now include the rear of the premises on Sterne Street

4.    Modify condition 30 – to now add the words, “no waste collection shall take place at the rear of the premises but only the front on Uxbridge Road”.

5.    To reduce the hours of provision of Late Night Refreshment both indoors and outdoors between Thursday and Saturday from 3 am to 2 am. 

6.    To add an additional condition that the door to the rear of the premises onto Sterne Street shall only be used as a fire exit and in emergencies

1. A copy of this Committee’s full decision including its reasons [and the full text of the conditions added to the licence] will be sent to the parties in due course.

2. If any of the parties are unhappy with the decision they are entitled to appeal to the magistrates’ court within 21 days from the date of notification of the full decision