Agenda and minutes

Councillor Gawthrope was elected as Chair for the meeting.

No interests were declared.

All parties noted the hearing procedure.

The Assistant Licensing Officer presented the report and outlined the application for the Premises Licence under section 17 of the Licensing Act 2003 in respect of The Old Bicycle Shop, 104 Regent Street, Cambridge, CB2 1DP.

In response to Members’ questions the Licensing & Enforcement Manager stated:

i.             Paragraph 1.3 of the Officers’ report contained the conditions proposed by the Applicant.   Further conditions were agreed between the Police and the Applicant, some conditions were re-worded and the Police Licensing Officer confirmed he was happy with the re-worded conditions as detailed in paragraph 1.5 of the Officer’s report. 

ii.            Members could ask for conditions that were not contained within paragraph 1.3 or 1.5 of the Officer’s report.

iii.           Once members had heard from all parties, the discussion regarding the fire escape may be relevant in terms of public safety.

Applicant’s Representative

Mr McCann made the following points on behalf of the Applicant:

i.             A meeting took place between the Applicant, the Police and Environmental Health regarding the roof terrace, photographs of the roof terrace were circulated during the meeting. 

ii.            The roof terrace would not be used for drinking and would not cause a nuisance as it was well shielded and covered by trees.

iii.           Regrettably the noise nuisance report was not available for the meeting today.

iv.          The statement of case should provide reassurance to Members as an additional condition was proposed that if the Environmental Health Officer was not satisfied with the independent noise nuisance report then they could veto the use of the roof terrace.

v.           If the fire escape was built as per the specification on the plans then there should be no problems with the fire escape.  If members granted permission today and the Applicant could not implement the fire escape then the permission was useless.

vi.          The nature of the proposed operation was not a large brewhouse.

vii.         In relation to the cumulative impact, the Applicant was happy to include the additional conditions proposed by the Police and the additional condition proposed in the statement of case.

Members Questions:  

In response to Members’ questions, the Applicant’s Representative made the following statements:

i.             A premises licence and planning permission would need to be in place before the premises could open.

ii.            The beer garden was a small space surrounded by 8 foot walls, this was an area for smokers to keep them off the pavement.

iii.           If the Applicant did not obtain permission to build the fire exit the licence would not be able to be used in its current form. The Applicant would have to go back to the architect and apply for a licence variation.  Other alternatives were available, this was plan A.

iv.          The roof terrace was currently not fit to be used as a roof terrace and would need to go through the planning process.

Environmental Health Representative:

Daniel Bayles made the following points:

i.             People who smoke need to be kept away from the pavement so that they do not  ...  view the full minutes text for item 8.