Agenda and minutes

Apologies for absence were received from Councillors’ Chivers, Vic Kerr, Rowlands and Russell for this meeting only.

Members are asked to declare an interest in matters for consideration at the meeting.

None declared.

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Deferred to next meeting.

Report CSL004 by the Community Safety and Licensing Service Manager.

(Enclosure)

Decision:

That the application for a premise licence for Cost Cutters, 23/15 Springfield Road, Grantham be approved as applied for with the change of hours as agreed with the applicant from 6:00am to 23:00pm and the removal of regulatory entertainment and late night refreshment.  A condition is to be attached to the licence about regular litter picking by the Cost Cutter staff outside the premises, the wording of a precise condition to be confirmed with the Licensing Officers.

The Solicitor to the Committee introduced those present and confirmed the names of those wishing to speak.

-         Mr Suresh on behalf of Cost Cutters the applicant

-        Mr I James operations manager, Cost Cutters

-        Councillor Adam Stokes ward representative

-        Mr J Bishop resident

-        Mr D Atkins resident

-        Mrs C Leivers resident

The procedure which would be followed was explained and the parties indicated their understanding of the process

The Licensing Officer submitted report CSL004 which concerned a premises licence for the premises known as Cost Cutters, 13/15 Springfield Road, Grantham for the sale of alcohol, opening 24 hours a day and late night refreshment between 23.00 and 5.00am seven days a week.   Following objections received the applicant had amended the application to reduce the opening hours.  The application for recorded music had been made in error and therefore was no longer part of the application and the applicant also indicated that they no longer wished to apply for late night refreshment.  Five representations from interested parties had been received together with a petition. The Committee members were reminded about the relevance of representations. The representations received covered all four licensing objectives.

The Licensing Officer then referred to the representation received from Mr Bishop and explained a paragraph within the letter stating that the premises was already classed as A1 use and planning permission was therefore not required.  Also the Council did not have a cumulative impact policy.

Mr Bishop then asked for clarity concerning the hours asked for and the late night refreshment license together with the recorded music.  Mr Suresh, on behalf of Cost Cutters responded by stating that there would be no cooking on the premises and they were therefore not going to apply for a late night refreshment licence.  Mr Harrison indicated that the recorded music that would be played would be incidental music and therefore not part of the licence required.

Mr Suresh then presented his case stating that following the objections received from the residents in the area a reduction of hours had been requested as the neighbourhood was important.  A question was asked by a resident about how familiar Mr Suresh was with the premises and its location to which Mr Surest replied.

The interested parties then each presented their cases to the Committee.  There representations covered the following points:

-        Concern over public safety due to the location of the premises

-        Concern over the opening hours due to the residential area

-        Noise and nuisance from the location of  ...  view the full minutes text for item 43.

The meeting closed at 11.07am.