Agenda and draft minutes

Councillor Seacome was duly elected as Chairman.

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BP Service Station, 80-86 Prestbury Road, Cheltenham

Phil Cooper, Licensing Officer introduced the report as circulated with the agenda.  An application had been received from Global Fuel (UK) Ltd in respect of BP Prestbury Road Service Station, located at 80-86 Prestbury Road, Cheltenham to vary their existing premises licence.

A copy of the application form is attached to Appendix A of the report.

The applicants have applied for a variation of their existing premises licence to extend the hours during which alcohol may be sold and to include the provision of late night refreshment.

The times and activities authorised by the existing premises licence are as follows;

Sale/supply of Alcohol          Monday to Saturday  08:00 – 23:00

Sunday                       10:00 –  22:30

The times and activities applied for by way of variation of the premises licence are as follows;

Sale/supply of Alcohol          Every day                   00:00 – 00:00 (24 hours)

Late night refreshment          Every day                   23:00 – 05:00

The applicants have stated the following steps to promote the four licensing objectives:

• Between 24:00 & 06:00 hours, unless there are two staff on duty in-store, then the entrance doors are to be locked and alcohol will only be sold via the night hatch, spirits located behind the counter.
• Appropriate staff alcohol sales training to be satisfactorily completed and records.  Written training records to be made available for inspection upon reasonable request be a relevant officer of a responsible authority.  Appropriate training manual utilised.
• Appropriately worded notices to be displayed prominently inside and outside the store requesting customers to leave the site quietly at night.
• Forecourt to be swept regularly.  Forecourt bins to be emptied regularly.

No representations have been received from responsible authorities. 

Valid representation have been received from 13 people on the grounds of public safety, the prevention of crime and disorder, the prevention of public nuisance and the protection of children from harm.  Points 4.2 – 4.16 of the report details the name and addresses of the objectors and their concerns.

Copies of all of the residents’ representations are attached to Appendix B of the report.

A petition in support of the application had been received, signed by 157 of the services station’s customers.  The petition showed 149 people (95%) indicated they were in support of the application, 5 signatories objected to the application and 3 entries were spoilt.  A copy of the petition is attached to Appendix C of the report.

Appendix D of the report shows the locations of the residents’ properties and that of the premises.

Appendix E of the report details an internal layout plan of the premises.

Mr Roy Light, Advocate for the applicant, Mr Richard Baker, Agent from RB Retail & Licensing Services Ltd and Mr Kris Narabatnam, applicant attended the committee and spoke in support of the application.

Mr Light referred the Committee to the extra bundle of papers and asked Members to look at page 26 of the agenda papers.  This detailed that the premises wanted to sell hot pies, savouries, soup and hot drinks for consumption off the premises.  Mr Light reassured  ...  view the full minutes text for item 4.