To consider an application for the Grant of a premises licence in respect of Luminescence.

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 Ms C Corfield, Licensing Team Manager Herefordshire Council, Mr J Mooney representing West Mercia Police;  Mr N Coulson representing the applicant and Ms Lauren Waring 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 (as amended by the Violent Crime Reduction Act 2006), the Guidance Issued under Section 182 and the guidance issued under Section 53A of the Licensing Act 2003 as amended and the Council’s Licensing Policy. 

DECISION

It is the decision of the Regulatory Sub Committee that:

The Regulatory Sub Committee has considered the application for a new premises licence at 25 Widemarsh Street, Hereford.

1. The Committee grants this application – it having been persuaded that notwithstanding the premises are located within the Hereford Cumulative Impact Zone the presumption that the application be refused has been rebutted successfully by the applicant and her representative.

2. The sub-committee has considered carefully the conditions as offered by the applicant on pages 34 – 39 of our bundle as commented upon and recommended in part by both the police (at page 51) and the Trading Standards Officers ( pages 53 and 54).

      The committee requires the Licensing manager to prepare a full schedule of            conditions reflecting all of the above. The Committee however proposes that           police condition 11 be extended from 23:30hrs to midnight.

3. Subject to the above, the sub-committee stresses, for the avoidance of doubt, that as offered by the applicant (at point 8 on page36) no admission of customers will be allowed onto the premises after 0130hrs on all seven days of the week. It also requires that this condition be sufficiently enforced.