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Tesco, Hills Road, Hearing Report PDF 455 KB Additional documents:
Minutes: The Licensing Enforcement Officer presented the report and outlined
the application. In response to Member’s questions the Senior Technical Officer confirmed
that no complaints had been made to the Licensing Authority regarding the Tesco
store on Hills Road. Applicant Mr Bark made the following points: i.
He would talk about what Tesco was about, go
through the policies Tesco had in place and then summarise his points. ii.
He referred to the Cumulative Impact Policy and the
test which was contained within paragraph 5.10. He explained that this was in
fact a two stage test. iii.
Each application should be judged on its own
merits. iv.
The existing premises licence was one of the old
converted Magistrates issued licences. v.
The store’s opening hours were 6am until 11pm, the
application sought to align the ability to sell alcohol with the store’s opening
hours. vi.
Tesco Express was a convenience store, alcohol
sales equated to 7-9% across the country. vii.
95% of sales of alcohol were linked to other goods. viii.
The customers for this store were people who worked
or lived in the area. ix.
During 6-7am less than 0.1% of customers purchased
alcohol during this time period. The application was about flexibility. x.
To a certain extent the Police were the guardians
of the Cumulative Impact Policy (as they had requested the policy). There were
no objections from the Police to the variation application. xi.
Tesco wanted to be at the forefront of best
practice: a)
they had a good neighbour policy b)
there had been no incidents logged by the Council
since the premises opened in 2005. c)
They had a think 25 policy, they were the first
company to introduce the policy back in 1999 (at that time it was a think 21
policy). xii.
If an age restricted product was scanned at the
till, it required a member of staff to override this either by confirming that
ID was shown or that the person was clearly over 25. The till would also
display the date of birth for a person would be 18 on that date, so that it was
easy for staff to carry out an ID check.
xiii.
Tesco undertook their own mystery shopping checks,
using 18/19 year olds. They cannot use children younger than 18 as only Trading
Standards and the Police have powers to do so. These checks were undertaken
monthly. xiv.
Safe and Legal checks were carried our quarterly,
this included checking premises were complying with their conditions and this
would be signed off by Store Mangers. xv.
Tesco had more people in senior / middle management
roles from people who started working on the shop floor than other
companies. xvi.
All staff members received training on age
restricted products this was refreshed yearly and at busy periods during the
year. xvii.
All Managers had conflict training so they had the
right tools to deal with situations involving conflict. xviii. Tesco operated a ‘you say no, we say no’ policy to ... view the full minutes text for item 18/4/Lic |