Agenda and minutes

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Items
No. Item

1.

Declarations of interest, if any.

Minutes:

There were no declarations of interest made at the meeting.

 

2.

Minutes of the Licensing Sub-Committee Meeting held on 16th November, 2018. pdf icon PDF 56 KB

Minutes:

RESOLVED that the minutes of the meeting of the Licensing Sub-Committee held on Friday, 16th November, 2018 be approved as a correct record and signed by the Chair.

 

3.

Application for a Review of an Existing Premises Licence - Lila Mini Market, 7 Bass Terrace, Thorne Road, Doncaster DN1 2HZ. pdf icon PDF 483 KB

Additional documents:

Minutes:

The Sub-Committee considered an application for the review of an existing premises licence in respect of Lila Mini Market, 7 Bass Terrace, Thorne Road, Doncaster DN1 2HZ.  The procedure for considering the application was set out in Appendix A.

 

The Sub-Committee Members, the Applicant (the Trading Standards Service) the Premises Licence Holder, the Representative acting for the Premises Licence Holder and Responsible Authorities, had received the agenda prior to the meeting.

 

Representations from South Yorkshire Police in support of the review were attached at Appendix F to the report; the information therein was not for publication at it contained personal information protected by the Data Protection Legislation, which was not required to be published in accordance with the Licensing Act, 2003

 

Subsequent to the dispatch of the agenda papers, additional information from the Applicant had been circulated to Members of the Sub-Committee and the Responsible Authorities representative, prior to the hearing; the information therein was not for publication at it contained personal information protected by the Data Protection Legislation, which was not required to be published in accordance with the Licensing Act, 2003.

 

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

 

Representatives from the Trading Standards Service (the Applicant)were in attendance at the meeting.

 

The Premises Licence Holder and Representative acting for the Premises Licence Holder, were not in attendance at the meeting.

 

The Licensing Officer introduced the report and outlined the salient points.

Prior to further representations being made, the Licensing Officer also outlined that he had received a request from the Representative acting for the Premises Licence Holder, Mr Nick Semper from Semper Fidelis Consultancy, for the hearing to be adjourned to a future date to allow the Premises Licence Holder’s Representative adequate time to consider and assimilate the contents the documents served.

 

The Council’s Solicitor advising the Sub-Committee, made reference to the Council’s rules of procedure for Licensing Hearings and the Licensing Act 2003 (Hearings) Regulations 2005, and clarified the procedure and options available to the Sub-Committee.  Subsequently, the Sub-Committee

decided that it was not in the public interest to allow the hearing to proceed as the Premises Licence Holder’s Representative had not been given sufficient opportunity and notice to assimilate the contents of the documents served.  It was therefore Moved and Seconded that the Sub-Committee meeting stand adjourned until 9.30 a.m. on Monday, 7th January, 2019, to allow the Premises Licence Holder’s Representative the opportunity to prepare for the hearing.

 

RESOLVED that the meeting stand adjourned until 9.30 a.m. on Monday, 7th January, 2019.