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BCP Council has made an application to vary the premises licence to enable outdoor pop up catering sites across the Seafront to enhance the existing offering for the main season and therefore use the area for events other than beach weddings.

The application has requested the following:-

·       To add the sale of alcohol every April – September from 10:00 to 22:00.

·       To increase the live and recorded music timings to 10:00 to 22:00.

·       To apply for plays, films, indoor sporting events and the performance of dance.

Out of the proposed times the site will continue to be a beach wedding area.

The application is brought before the Licensing Committee for determination.

The following persons attended the hearing:

Sarah Rogers, BCP Senior Licensing Officer

Nananka Randle – BCP Licensing Manager

Tanya Coulter, BCP Legal Advisor to the Committee

Michelle Cutler, BCP Clerk to the Committee

The following persons attended the Hearing and addressed the Committee to expand on the points made in their written submissions:

Helen Wildman - BCP Council Events Manager – Representing the Applicant

Noel Oliver – BCP Council Seafront Contracts Manager – Representing the Applicant

Mathew Taylor – BCP, Senior Environmental Health Officer-Objector

Sergeant Gareth Gosling   - Dorset Police - Objector

Members of the public who made representations and requested to speak:

Peter Chadwick

Peter Wulwik

The Chairman made introductions and explained the procedure for the Hearing which was agreed by all parties.

The Senior Licensing Officer presented a report, a copy of which had been circulated, along with other relevant papers for the meeting, and a copy of which appears as Appendix A to these minutes in the Minute Book.

The Committee was asked to consider an application for a variation to the existing premises licence for the Beach Wedding Area, West Undercliff, Bournemouth. The area currently licensed was identified on the Plan attached to the current premises licence and included with the Committee papers. The application was to vary the current licence to allow the following licensable activities to take place during the requested times:

·       the supply of alcohol with food, on the premises only, daily, between the hours of 10:00hrs and 22:00hrs, between the months of April to September,

·       the performance of plays, both indoors and outdoors, daily, between 10:00hrs and 22:00hrs,

·       the exhibition of films, both indoors and outdoors, daily, between 10:00hrs and 22:00hrs,

·       indoor sporting events daily between 10:00hrs and 22:00hrs,

·       live and recorded music, both indoors and outdoors, daily, between 10:00hrs and 22:00rs; and

·       the performance of dance both indoors and outdoors, daily, between 10:00hrs and 22:00hrs,

The application was brought before the Licensing Committee for determination further to the requirements of the Council’s Constitution as the applicant was BCP Council.

Following this, the officers from the Council’s Events Team presented their application and case. They clarified that the plan attached to the current premises licence, as set out in Appendix 2 of the Committee Report, was the correct and relevant plan for the purposes of this application. The plan attached to the variation application showed a larger area of the beach, and the officers presenting the case made it clear that this was in error and the variation application was to vary activities within the current licensed area only. They also clarified that there was no current contract for beach weddings due to the Covid 19 situation. It was not re-tendered last year and so there would be no beach weddings taking place in all likelihood this year.

The Dorset Police represented, then presented, the Police position and advised the Committee that the Police had been in discussion with the Applicant who had agreed to a total of 24 conditions to  ...  view the full minutes text for item 51