Agenda and minutes

Licensing Sub-Committee (4) - Thursday 21st July, 2016 10.00 am

Venue: Rooms 5, 6 & 7 - 17th Floor, Westminster City Hall, 64 Victoria Street, London, SW1E 6 QP. View directions

Contact: Jonathan Deacon  Email:  jdeacon@westminster.gov.uk Tel: 020 7641 2783

Items
No. Item

1.

Membership

To report any changes to the membership.

Minutes:

1.1       There were no changes to the membership.

2.

Declarations of Interest

To receive declarations by Members and Officers of any personal or prejudicial interests in matters on this agenda.

Minutes:

2.1       Mr Wroe, Policy Adviser, declared that he had attended joint Council business meetings at the premises in the last 12 months, however he did not consider that he had a prejudicial interest in the application and remained present at the hearing.

3.

SMITH & WOLLENSKY, THE ADELPHI, 1-11 JOHN ADAM STREET, WC2 pdf icon PDF 14 MB

App

No

Ward /

Cumulative

Impact Area

Site Name and Address

Application

Licensing Reference Number

1.

St James’s / not in cumulative impact area

Smith & Wollensky,

The Adelphi,

1-11 John Adam Street,

WC2

Variation

16/03451/LIPV

 

 

Minutes:

LICENSING SUB-COMMITTEE No. 4

Thursday 21st July 2016

 

Membership:            Councillor Jean-Paul Floru (Chairman), Councillor Jan Prendergast and Councillor Shamim Talukder.

 

Legal Adviser:           Barry Panto

Policy Officer:           Chris Wroe

Committee Officer:   Toby Howes

Presenting Officer:  Heidi Lawrance

 

Relevant Representations: Environmental Health and 19 local residents.

 

Present:  Mr James Rankin (Barrister, representing the Applicant Company), Mr Nathan Evans (Operations Director and Designated Premises Superviser,, Applicant Company), Mr Richard Brown (Solicitor, Citizens Advice Bureau Licensing Advice Project, representing local residents Dr V Bhalla, Ms Malu Halasa, Mr Luke Hughes, Mr Alun Jones, Ms Jane Jones, Ms Sue Mahony, Ms Caroline Nuttall, Mr John Nuttall, Mr Gordon Sutherland, Mr Russell Taylor and Mr Kenneth Tyrrell) and Ms Malu Halasa (local resident).

 

Declarations of Interest: Mr Wroe, Policy Adviser, declared that he had attended joint Council business meetings at the premises in the last 12 months, however he did not consider that he had a prejudicial interest in the application and remained present at the hearing.

 

 

Smith & Wollensky, The Adelphi, 1-11 John Adam Street WC2

16/03451/LIPV

 

1.

 

Variation of Condition

 

 

 

To delete condition 31 attached to the premises licence and replace it with:

 

“Notwithstanding condition 18, alcohol may be supplied and consumed in the basement bar area (designated on the plan) to a maximum of 40 patrons at any time between the hours of 17:00 and 20:00 on Mondays to Saturdays only.”

 

 

 

Amendments to application advised at hearing:

 

During the course of the hearing, Mr Rankin indicated that the intention was to actually retain condition 31 which allowed alcohol to be supplied and consumed prior to their meal in the ground floor bar area by up to a maximum at any one time, of 14 persons dining at the premises. This application was to seek a further concession in the basement bar area which would allow alcohol to be consumed by up to 40 patrons without the need for that to be ancillary to any food or table meal.

 

 

Decision (including reasons if different from those set out in report):

 

The Sub-Committee was informed that Mr Sutherland, a local resident, had requested an adjournment of the application on the morning of the hearing as he was not able to attend. The Chairman sought further clarification for the reasons for the adjournment request. Mr Brown, Solicitor, Citizens Advice Bureau and representing a number of local residents, explained that Mr Sutherland had requested the adjournment as he and a number of other residents could not attend the hearing due to work commitments or because they were on their summer holidays. In reply to a question from Mr Panto, Legal Adviser to the Sub-Committee, Mr Brown stated that the adjournment request had not been made earlier as it had taken a while to ascertain that a number of residents who had made representations would not be able to attend the hearing. Further to a question from the Chairman, Mr Brown confirmed that he was representing Dr V Bhalla, Ms Malu Halasa, Mr Luke Hughes, Mr Alun Jones,  ...  view the full minutes text for item 3.