Agenda and minutes

Venue: Civic Hall, Leeds

Contact: Governance Services  Copies of the full report with appendices are available on request from the clerk. For details of the new premises licence please contact Entertainment Licensing on 0113 2474095 after the hearing.

Items
No. Item

1.

Election of the Chair

Minutes:

RESOLVED – That Councillor B Selby be elected as Chair for the meeting.

 

 

2.

Late Items

To identify any applications as late items of business which have been admitted to the agenda for consideration

 

 (the special circumstances shall be identified in the minutes)

 

Minutes:

There were no late items.  Additional information had been submitted with regard to the Application to vary the premises licence at Roland’s, Call Lane, Leeds.

 

 

3.

Declarations of Disclosable Pecuniary Interests

To disclose or draw attention to any disclosable pecuniary interests for the purposes of Section 31 of the Localism Act 2011 and paragraphs 13-16 of the Members’ Code of Conduct.

 

Minutes:

There were no declarations of disclosable pecuniary interests.

 

 

4.

Application to vary a premises licence held by Rolands 39 Call Lane, Leeds, LS1 7BT pdf icon PDF 99 KB

To receive and consider the attached report of the Head of Elections, Licensing and Registration regarding an application to vary a premises licence held by Rolands 39 Call Lane, Leeds, LS1 7BT

 

Additional documents:

Minutes:

The report of the Head of Elections, Licensing and Registration presented an application to vary a premises licence held at Roland’s, 39 Call Lane, Leeds.

 

The application was to:

 

·  Extend the terminal hour for the sale of alcohol until 02:00 every day.

·  Extend the terminal hour for late night refreshment, films, live music & recorded music and opening hour until 02:30 every day.

·  Amend condition 49 under Annex 2 to read “There shall be no admission of new customers after 01:00am”. The condition currently reads “There shall be no admission of new customers after 23:00 hours”.

·  Remove the following conditions condition 75 under Annex 2 which reads “The PLH/DPS will adopt a cooling down period to draw the evening to a close where no entrants will be allowed after 23:00”.

·  Addition of a further four conditions to be added to the operating schedule as below

1.  After midnight the maximum occupancy of the premises will be 60 customers.

2.  After midnight a minimum of 40 seats will always be provided whenever the premises are conducting licensable activities.

3.  After midnight waiter/waitress service will be available to customers.

4.  After midnight substantial refreshment will be available to customers and menus will be placed at the bar and on the tables.

·  To add an additional hour to the standard and non-standard timings on the day when British Summertime commences for alcohol, all licensable activities and opening hours.

Prior to the commencement of the hearing, the Applicant’s representative suggested that the Sub-Committee may find a visit to the premises to be of benefit before considering and determining the application.  Following an adjournment to consider this, it was reported that it was not felt that a visit to the premises at 10.30am would be beneficial as it would not show the issues that the area faced at midnight or later, and the applicant was advised that they would be given further time when presenting their case to highlight matters relating to the location and layout of the premises.

 

The Applicant’s representative addressed the sub-committee.  Issues highlighted included the following:

 

·  An amendment to the variation applied for was made.  It was requested that the varied hours and conditions applied for are only to apply on Thursday to Saturday and that the variation to extend the terminal hour for late night refreshment, films, live music & recorded music and opening hour until 02:30 be removed altogether.

·  It was further proposed to increase the condition of a minimum of seats from 40 to 46.

·  The Sub-committee was informed that an application had been made to transfer the Premises Licence from Leven Leisure Ltd. to Mr Alexander Neill.  This would take effect if the application was granted and a condition was offered that would link the amended hours to the new Premises Licence Holder.

·  Roland’s was a family run bar and the smallest bar on Call Lane.  The bar offered a different style of operation to other premises in the area and attracted young professional people, mainly in the 25  ...  view the full minutes text for item 4.