Councillor DW Greenow was elected as Chairman for the Regulatory Sub-Committee hearing.

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

To consider an application for a new premises licence in respect of The Royal Oak Hotel, South Street, Leominster, HR6 8JA.

Members of the Council’s Regulatory Sub Committee considered the above application, full details of which appeared before the Members in their agenda.

Prior to making their decision the Members heard from Mr Fred Spriggs, Licensing Officer for Herefordshire Council and Ms Charmaine Brookes, the applicant.

Having carefully considered those matters brought before them and in reaching their decision, the Members had full regard to both the provisions of the Licensing Act 2003, the Guidance Issued under Section 182 of the Licensing Act 2003 and the Council’s Licensing Policy. 

The Licensing officer confirmed that all requested certificates and documents requested at the Regulatory subcommittee of 14 December 2015 have now been provided to the satisfaction of the Licensing Officer.

The applicant confirmed that a new licenced security company was now in place in respect of the premises and that documents were available if required.

The subcommittee retired to make their decision and returned deliver the following decision.

DECISION:

This Regulatory Sub-Committee has heard an application for a new Premises licence made in respect of the Royal Oak Hotel Leominster.

 It has referred and given weight to the appropriate statutory provision, best practice and evidence put before it by all parties.

This is the decision of the Regulatory Sub-Committee made in respect of an application for a new premises in respect of the Royal Oak Hotel, South Street, Leominster (the premises).

The Sub-Committee has carefully considered the application in line with the 4 Licensing Objectives and has referred to its last decision dated 14 December 2015. It is satisfied that the requirements made by it on this date have been met having been assured by the Licensing Officer.

The application is therefore granted that the premises should be licensed for those parts  which are shown edged in pink on the plans which shall be attached to the Decision Notice and marked FS1 ‘A’ and FS1 ‘B’ – subject to the agreed conditions.

AGREED CONDITIONS

PREVENTION OF CRIME

1.         A terminal hour for all licensable activities of midnight other than on Bank Holidays, Christmas Eve, Boxing Day and New Year’s Eve when the terminal hours shall be 0100 hours.

2.         All licensable areas shall be vacated within 30 minutes of the end of licensable activities.

3.         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 in recordable media format, a authorised Herefordshire Trading Standards Officer or the Local Authority on  ...  view the full minutes text for item 14.

To consider an application for a new premises licence in respect of Co-operative Food, (The Former Overross Garage, Overross Street, Ross on Wye, HR9 7AS.

The Licensing officer confirmed that all conditions had been agreed with the applicant and therefore the application was not required to be considered by the committee today.

RESOLVED: That under section 100 (A)(4) of the Local Government Act 1972, the

public be excluded from the meeting for the following item of business on the grounds

that it involved the likely disclosure of exempt information as defined in Schedule 12(A)

of the Act, as indicated below.

1 Information relating to any individual.

2 Information which is likely to reveal the identity of an individual.

SUMMARY OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF EXEMPT INFORMATION

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

Prior to making their decision the Members heard from the applicant and Fred Spriggs, representing the Licensing Authority.

Having carefully considered those matters brought before them, the Sub-Committee were of the opinion that the application be allowed as follows.

RESOLVED

It is the decision of the Sub-Committee that the application be allowed.

The Committee confirmed that a written copy of the decision would be issued to the applicant by the Licensing Authority

This concluded the meeting