Agenda and minutes

There were no declarations of interest made at the meeting.

RESOLVED that the minutes of the Licensing Sub-Committee meeting held on 16th October 2017, be approved as a correct record and signed by the Chair.

The Sub-Committee considered an application for a new premises licence in respect of Bawtry Hall, South Parade, Bawtry, Doncaster, DN10 6JH. 

The premises concerned related to a stately home.  The application was for a new premises licence to allow the premises to carry out licensable activities between the hours, as detailed in the report.   A summary of the application was attached as Appendix B to the report.

Following discussions with the Environmental Health department, the applicant had asked for additional conditions to form part of his application. These conditions were also shown at Appendix B and relevant correspondence is reproduced at Appendix F.

Representations regarding the application had been received from nearby residents, copies of which were attached at Appendix E of the report.  A copy of the application had been sent to each of the Responsible Authorities. Details of the application have been published on the Council website.

One of the persons, who had made written representations, had indicated that the premises were located in an area that was subject to a Cumulative Impact Policy, namely Area 3, Bawtry Town Centre (Section 7 of Doncaster Council’s Statement of Licensing Policy 2016 - Licensing Act 2003).  Doncaster Council’s Highways Network Management Team had confirmed that the premises address is South Parade, which was not subject to the Cumulative Impact Policy.

Subsequently, the Licensing Authority had contacted the Planning Department to seek clarification regarding the use of the entrance onto South Parade as referred to in the written representations. A copy of the response received was attached to the report at Appendix G.

It was noted that the Senior Planning Officer had advised that the existing permitted uses for the site includes a wedding venue, restaurant/café, offices and residential uses.  Planning has an application to convert the restaurant/café area to a wedding venue/function area/conferencing area including gardens.  The Highways team have been consulted and have assessed the accesses.

The existing permitted uses for the site were only allowed to use the Pemberton Grove access and could operate now within the uses they have planning for including, taxi’s down Pemberton Grove and could be a similar intensity as the proposed use.  The access from South Parade had never been allowed in any planning applications due to the Highway safety risk of traffic backing up and accessing the site near the junction.  It has only ever been allowed to be used for pedestrians.  The Planning department does not support the use of the South Parade access for more than two wedding vehicles a day for the above reasons and the planning application will be restricted to this. 

The Sub-Committee Members, the Applicant, Responsible Authorities and persons who had made representations, had received the agenda prior to the meeting.

At the commencement of the meeting, the Chair made introductions and outlined the procedure to be followed.

Subsequent to the despatch of the agenda papers, David Smith, Licensing Officer in presenting the report,drew Members’ attention to a drafting error in paragraph 4  ...  view the full minutes text for item 3.