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The Licensing Authority has received an application for a new premises licence for a premises at 561 Christchurch Road, Boscombe, Bournemouth.

As the Licensing Authority has received representations this matter is brought before the Licensing Sub Committee for determination.

Attendance:

BCP Council:

Tania Jardim – Licensing Officer

Johanne McNamara – Legal Advisor to the Sub-Committee

Jill Holyoake – Clerk to the Sub-Committee

The Chair made introductions and explained the procedure for the hearing, which was agreed by all parties.

The Licensing Officer presented the report, a copy of which had been circulated and a copy of which appears as Appendix A to these minutes in the Minute Book. The Sub Committee was asked to consider an application for a new premises licence for 561 Christchurch Road, Bournemouth, BH1 4AH, to permit Late Night Refreshment Friday and Saturday 23:00 to 02:00 and the Supply of Alcohol (off sales only) on Sunday to Thursday 06:00hrs to 23:00hrs and Friday and Saturday 06:00hrs to 02:00hrs.

The application had resulted in ten representations from Other Persons on the grounds that the licence if granted would undermine the prevention of crime and disorder, prevention of public nuisance, public safety and protection of children from harm licensing objectives. Dorset Police had also made a representation under the prevention of crime and disorder and public safety licensing objectives but had subsequently withdrawn their representation having agreed conditions with the applicant through mediation. A copy of the proposed conditions had been circulated and appears as Appendix B to these minutes in the Minute Book.

Prior to the hearing the applicant’s representative submitted supplementary information questioning the validity of some of the representations received. A copy of this submission had been circulated and appears as Appendix C to these minutes in the Minute Book.

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

Applicant:

Gill Sherratt – Applicant’s representative

Thyagaraju Sankarapu – Applicant

Other Persons:

Martha Covell, BCP Bournemouth Towns Fund Programme Manager on behalf of Better Boscombe Regeneration Hub

Lee Hall

The Sub Committee asked various questions and were grateful for the responses received. All parties were given the opportunity to ask questions and were invited to sum up before the Sub-Committee retired to make its decision.

RESOLVED that the application for a new premises licence for 561 Christchurch Road, Bournemouth, BH1 4AH, to permit Late Night Refreshment Friday and Saturday 23:00 to 02:00 and the Supply of Alcohol (off sales only) on Sunday to Thursday 06:00hrs to 23:00hrs and Friday and Saturday 06:00hrs to 02:00hrs, be GRANTED, subject to the following additional conditions:

Conditions agreed through mediation with Dorset Police:

• All staff working at the premises concerned with the sale of alcohol shall be trained on the law relating to sale of alcohol, the age verification policy adopted by the premises and the conditions attached to the premises licence. Refresher training shall be provided at least annually. In the case of paper records, the record shall be maintained of all staff training and that record shall be signed by the person receiving the training and the trainer. The records shall be kept for a minimum of 12 months and made available for inspection by  ...  view the full minutes text for item 31