Agenda and minutes

Review of Altitude 360, Twenty Eighth Floor, Millbank Tower, 21-24 Millbank, SW1 (“The Premises”)

16/02038/LIREVP

The application for review was submitted by the Metropolitan Police on the grounds of the prevention of crime and disorder and public safety.   PC Janes was the presenting Officer on behalf of the Police and shall be referred throughout this decision as (“The Police”). The Police, when addressing the Sub-Committee at the hearing, referred to a number of incidents of crime and disorder having taken place on the 28^th floor at Millbank Tower on the 26 - 27 March 2016.  Several people had been seriously assaulted inside the premises.  Consequently, the Police were seeking revocation of the Premises licences for the Twenty Eighth and Twenty Ninth floors due to the seriousness of the incidents forming part of the review application, the lack of effective management displayed by the applicant on the night in question, in terms of their ability to control and manage the premises in accordance with their licence conditions and failure to uphold the promotion of the licensing objectives, in particular the prevention of crime and disorder and public safety.  The Police made the point that had they been made aware of the nature of the incidents initially by the applicant, they would have submitted an expedited review.  The Police had only become aware of the full seriousness when they had viewed CCTV and carried out further investigations into the incidents.  The Sub-Committee was advised that the venue had following the incidents given undertakings that it would not operate events in the short term after midnight. 

The Police provided the Sub-Committee with some background information on the venue location.  It was stated that Millbank Tower is a thirty three floor building which has predominantly office use.  The 28^th floor has a large ‘U’ shaped event space which had a bar in the middle for the event on 27 March.  Access to the venue via the ground floor was via the Reels Cafe through double doors past electronic barriers to the lifts.  It was submitted by the Police that the building layout was unsuitable for late nightclub style events.  The event had been booked by Paravana Project which the Police described as an internationally known promotions company.  The event was advertised as starting at 14:00 on Saturday 26 March and running until 04:00 on Sunday 27 March with the final two hours having been applied for separately under a Temporary Event Notice as part  ...  view the full minutes text for item 1.

Review of Altitude 360, Twenty Ninth Floor, Millbank Tower, 21-24 Millbank, SW1 (“The Premises”)

16/04072/LIREVP

The application for review was submitted by the Metropolitan Police on the grounds of the prevention of crime and disorder and public safety.   PC Janes, was the presenting Officer on behalf of the Police and shall be referred throughout this decision as the (“The Police”)when addressing the Sub-Committee at the hearing, referred to a number of incidents of crime and disorder having taken place on the 28^th floor at Millbank Tower on the 26 - 27 March 2016.  Several people had been seriously assaulted inside the Premises. 

Consequently, the Police were seeking revocation of the Premises licences for the 28^th and 29^th floors.  The 29^th floor had the same Licence Holder and whilst there was the ability for the two floors to be used as separate venues, they could also be used collectively for an event.  When used either as a single floor venue or collectively there was a capacity of 600 people.  The Police were also keen that the premises licences for both floors were revoked as they did not believe the Licence Holder’s operations should be allowed to transfer to the 29^th floor in the event of the 28^th floor licence being revoked.

The Police stated that had they been made aware as to the true nature of the incidents on 26-27 March initially by the applicant, they would have submitted an expedited review.  The Police had only become aware of the full seriousness when they had viewed CCTV and carried out further investigations into the incidents.  The Sub-Committee was advised that the venue had following the incidents given undertakings that it would not operate events in the short term after midnight. 

The Police provided some background information on the venue location.  It was stated that Millbank Tower is a thirty three floor building which has predominantly office use.  The 28^th floor has a large ‘U’ shaped event space which had a bar in the middle for the event on 27 March.  Access to the venue via the ground floor was via the Reels Cafe through double doors past electronic barriers to the lifts.  It was submitted by the Police that the building layout was unsuitable for late nightclub style events.  The event had been booked by Paravana Project which the Police described as an internationally known promotions company.  The event was advertised as starting at 14:00 on  ...  view the full minutes text for item 2.