Councillor A Seldon was elected as Chairman for the Regulatory Sub-Committee hearing.

To receive apologies for absence.

To receive any details of Members nominated to attend the meeting in place of a Member of the committee.

To receive any declarations of interest by Members in respect of items on the agenda.

Members of the Licensing Panel of the Council’s Regulatory Sub-Committee considered the above application, full details of which appeared before the Members in their agenda and the background papers.

Prior to making their decision the Members heard from Adrienne Poole, representing the Licensing Authority, Fred Spriggs, presenting the Licensing Authority’s representation, Jim Mooney, presenting West Mercia Police representation, Elisabeth Laughland, presenting  the Environmental Health representation and Mr Heath Thomas representing on behalf of the applicant.

Having carefully considered those matters brought before them, the Sub-Committee determined the application as follows, with a view to promoting the licensing objective, namely the prevention of, the prevention of public nuisance, as set out in the guidance issued under Section 182 of the Licensing Act 2003, and the Council’s Licensing Policy:

The Licensing Panel of the Council’s Regulatory Sub-Committee are mindful to approve the application given  that the Sub-Committee believe that the application would not add to issues of Public Disorder and that the applicants have demonstrated this to the satisfaction of the Sub-Committee.

The Sub-Committee considered that the refusal of the application would be disproportionate (case of Thwaites plc v Wirral Borough Magistrates’ Court).

The Sub –Committee have decided that the licensing objective, is best promoted by granting the Application subject to the following conditions which we consider appropriate.

Conditions:-

1. CCTV will be provided in the form of a recordable system, capable of providing pictures of EVIDENTIAL QUALITY in all lighting conditions particularly facial recognition.

Cameras shall encompass all ingress and egress to the premises, fire exits, outside areas, and all areas where the sale/ supply of alcohol occurs.

Equipment MUST be maintained in good working order, be correctly time and date stamped , recordings MUST be kept in date order, numbered sequentially and kept for a period of 31 days and handed to Police on demand.

The Premises Licence Holder must ensure at all times a DPS or appointed member of staff is capable and competent at downloading CCTV footage onto recordable media which shall be handed to the Police, an authorised Herefordshire Trading Standards Officer or the Local Authority on demand.

The Recording equipment and tapes/discs shall be kept in a secure environment under the control of the DPS or other responsible named individual.

In the event of technical failure of the CCTV equipment the Premises Licence holder/DPS MUST report the failure to the Police on contact number '101' immediately.

2. The DPS will employ SIA doorstaff at times when risk assessment dictates door supervision to be necessary.

3. The Premises Licence Holder or DPS or a person nominated by them in writing for the purpose, shall maintain a register of door supervisors which shall be kept on the premises showing the names and addresses of the door supervisors, their badge numbers and shall be signed by the door supervisors as they commence and conclude duty. The register shall be made available on demand for inspection by an ‘authorised person’ (as defined by Section 13 of the Licensing Act 2003),  ...  view the full minutes text for item 12.