Agenda and draft minutes

Councillor Seacome was elected as the Chairman.

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Bath Road Market, 252 Bath Road, Cheltenham, GL53 7NB.

The applicants were not present at the start of the meeting and the Chairman made a decision to determine the application in their absence.  A phone call was made and a message was left for the applicant.  The meeting started at 10.10am.

Phil Cooper, Licensing officer introduced the report as circulated with the agenda.  He explained that an application had been received from Bath Road Market Ltd in respect of Bath Road Market, 252 Bath Road, Cheltenham, GL53 7NB. 

Appendix A of the report provided a copy of the application.

Appendix B and C of the report showed location and site plans.

Point 1.2 of the report detailed the applicants requested premises licence permissions.

Point 2.4 of the report identified the applicant’s steps to promote the four licensing objectives.

Point 3 of the report detailed additional conditions to be applied to the licence, if granted, in agreement with Gloucestershire Constabulary and the applicant.  No representations were received from the other responsible authorities.

Representations had been received from seven people residing in the vicinity of the premises.  Those representations were attached to Appendix D of the report.

Point 7.1 of the report detailed the four licensing objectives.

Phil Cooper referred Members to 7.9 of the report which referred to Mr Siddall’s representation.  Members were advised to note that Health and Safety was not a licensing objective and should not be considered relevant.

Mr Paul Siddall and Mrs Julia Chandler attended the meeting.  Both had submitted representations against the application and copies of their representations were attached to Appendix D of the report.

Mr Siddall confirmed that he lived in Langdon Road and overlooked the premises. He explained that the premises had been operating under a Temporary Event Notice during the last few weeks.  Mr Siddall stated he had been at home during the first days opening but had been away for the last few weeks.

He explained that an event was being advertised on the internet for the 11 December 2011 for local beer tasting.  It was confirmed that a Temporary Event Notice was not yet in place for this event but this type of licence could be applied for at very short notice.

Mr Siddall stated that the previous premises used the outside open space as a garden nursery and felt that the proposed application would cause more disruption.  He explained that parking issues had already occurred during the opening of the premises and Mr Siddall said he had taken some photographs of illegal parking and had forwarded them to the relevant authority.

Mr Siddall said that noise was the biggest issue at present as the outside space is separated by a low wall and wire mesh which resulted in sound coming straight out of the outside area.  Mr Siddall confirmed there is very little space between the outside space and his property.  Noise is already made when the Market is operating and Mr Siddall said he felt this noise would increase if there were people  ...  view the full minutes text for item 4.