Agenda and minutes

Councillor Chard was duly elected as Chair.

Councillor Lillywhite had given his apologies and Councillor Payne was attending as his substitute.

None.

Hanover Street, Cheltenham

The Licensing and Business Support Team Leader, Louis Krog, introduced the report as circulated with the agenda. A Temporary Event Notice (TEN) had been served on the authority on 13 July 2015 for a proposed outdoor event at the junction of St Pauls Road and Hanover Street.  A copy of the TEN was attached at Appendix A.

The TEN was served by Miss Nicola Morrison for the following proposed events on Saturday, 15 August 2015 and for the hours of 14:00 to 22:00.

•           The sale by retail of alcohol; and

•           The performance of regulated entertainment.

Section 104 of the 2003 Act (as amended by section 112 of the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011) permits both the Chief Officer of Police and the council’s Environmental Protection team to serve an objection notice to a TEN on the basis of an adverse effect on any of the licensing objectives.

Objection notices were submitted by Gloucestershire Constabulary and the council’s Environmental Health Department responsible for noise nuisance.  Copies of the objection notices were attached at Appendix B.

The committee was asked to consider the objection notices in relation to the TEN and decide whether to serve a counter notice to the TEN.

In response to a question, the licensing officer confirmed that there had been complaints after similar events in previous years at this location and the environmental health officer would be able to give details later in the meeting.

The applicant, Miss Nicola Morrison, was invited to speak in support of her application. She explained that she had been running the pub for seven and a half years and during that time had turned it round to be a safe haven for the local community and crime in the local area had dropped.  She had started this event in 2010 and to her knowledge there had been no issues with any of the events to date.  She had always had very good relationships with the previous Police Licensing Officer and environmental health officers at the council and had always been very willing to adopt their advice on staging, safety and sound. For example environmental health officers had recommended that earplugs should be made available and she had adopted this three years ago and now offered free earplugs. In her view the complaints this time were from people she had barred from the pub in the past. Her aim was to run this event safely for charity and she had a complement of sound engineers, fire wardens and security staff to ensure this. She was open to advice on how it could be made a safer event. She concluded that the event was important to herself and the local community and there was very strong support for it from local people.

In response to questions from members, the applicant gave the following responses:

•           there were no significant differences to the arrangements for this event compared with previous years apart from being for a different charity and a general  ...  view the full minutes text for item 4.