Agenda and minutes

RESOLVED that Councillor Hetherton be appointed Chair for the hearing.

There were no apologies for absence.

There were no declarations of interest.

To consider an application to vary a premises licence in respect of Tiki Hut, 52b Earlsdon Street, Coventry.

Note: The applicant and their representative have been invited to attend the

  hearing.

  Persons who have made representations have been invited to attend.

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The Licensing and Regulatory Sub-Committee considered an application to vary the Premises License in respect of Tiki Hut, 52b Earlsdon Street, Coventry. The Application sought to extend the licensable activities for the sale of alcohol, recorded music and late night refreshment by one hour on a Thursday-Saturday only.  This being a change from 00:00hrs to 01:00hrs on the said days. Objections had been received from Other Persons who were residents.

Mr Charambilides presented the case for the Applicant.  It was confirmed that the Applicant had been operating since 1994 had various establishments and further that there had been no issues no reviews and no complaints about him.  He had personally put his own name to this application/premises and it was confirmed that the establishment would be run by him with his son as General Manager who was also present.

In terms of the Licensing Objectives and addressing the objections made; it was indicated that these had been addressed and met.  Conditions had been negotiated with the Police and Environmental Protection and further the representations made by the residents were either general or insufficient to show that the issues emanated from the Tiki Hut.  It was further indicated that the area was not a residential area and that other licensed premises in the area were open for longer extended hours.  It was also noted that this was not an area subject to a cumulative impact assessment. This was in particular given as one of the reason for the Thursday night request for the additional hour.

Questions were asked in respect of Challenge 25 and the negotiated conditions with the Police and Environmental Protection with a focus on Challenge 25 and the draft Policies for Dispersal and Drugs.  The Applicant provided the draft policies in this regard.

In respect of Dispersal a procedure was in place to slow down the music 30 minutes before the end of service.  It was noted the front doors would be attended to by 2 SIA trained staff and that the 2 SIA trained staff members at 00:00 hrs would start to go through the building and politely ask clients to finish their drinks and encouraged them to leave the premises.  SIA staff would be on site from 8pm. The outside area was further unavailable after 9pm except for smoking.

When queried that the front doors would be left unattended, the Applicant confirmed that one SIA staff member would remain on the front doors and thereafter the 2^nd SIA staff member would do the walk through with the Applicant’s son present.

In particular to the direct incident on 30^th January 2018 (Page 62 of the Agenda pack), the Applicant could not give an account as was unaware of the incident and assumed this was general and not related to the premises.  It was indicated that they had tried a student night on a Monday night which finished in February 2018 as they were in effect not working.

The Sub Committee was reminded that if there  ...  view the full minutes text for item 4.

To consider any other items of business which the Chair decides to take as a matter of urgency because of the special circumstances involved.

There were no other items of business.