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Membership
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Declarations of Interest
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Odeon Cinema, 24-27 Leicester Square, London, WC2H 7LE PDF 1 MB
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Cumulative Impact Area
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Site Name
and Address
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Application
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Licensing
Reference Number
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St
James’s Ward/ West End Cumulative Impact Area
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Odeon
Cinema
24-27
Leicester Square
London
WC2H
7LE
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New
Premises Licence
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18/11604/LIPN
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Minutes:
LICENSING SUB-COMMITTEE No. 5
Thursday
15th November 2018
Membership:
Councillor Murad Gassanly (Chairman), Councillor Jacqui Wilkinson
and Councillor Aicha Less.
Legal
Adviser:
Horatio Chance
Committee Officer: Toby
Howes
Presenting Officer: Michelle
Steward
Relevant Representations: Environmental Health,
Metropolitan Police and the Licensing Authority.
Present: Suzanne Davies (Licensing
Consultant, representing the Applicant), Tessa Street (General
Manager, Applicant), Peter Ford (Risk Management Director,
Applicant), Roxsana Haq (Licensing Authority), PC Bryan Lewis
(Metropolitan Police) and Dave Nevitt (Environmental
Health).
Odeon
Cinema, 24-27 Leicester Square, London, WC2H 7LE
18/11604/LIPN (“The Premises”)
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Sale
by Retail of Alcohol: On Sales
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Monday to Sunday: 09:00 to
01:00
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Amendments to application
advised at hearing:
None.
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Decision (including reasons if
different from those set out in report):
Suzanne Davies (Licensing Consultant, representing the
Applicant) began by stating that the Premises already had an
existing premises licence. The Premises was currently closed and
undergoing an extensive refurbishment involving significant
investment to provide an enhanced cinema experience for customers.
Ms Davies stated that the rationale for submitting the application
for a new premises licence was so that irrelevant conditions would
be removed, add additional ones and update existing conditions to
more accurately reflect how the Premises would operate when it
re-opened, whilst
also retaining many existing conditions to replicate the
existing licence where appropriate. One of the main proposals was
to extend the terminal hour for the sale of alcohol by one hour
each day in order to extend the customer offer and also so that
customers had the opportunity to purchase alcohol when they were
going to late viewings where films commenced after midnight. Ms
Davies advised that the Applicant had agreed a condition proposed
by the Police stating that only persons with tickets for a
performance could be sold alcohol after 22:00hrs. The Applicant
also intended to hold afternoon tea events with champagne available
in the future for customers.
Ms
Davies stated that the Applicant’s plans for the cinema were
very ambitious and the intention was to make it one of the
World’s finest cinemas. The refurbishment represented the
restoration of a heritage facility, whilst there would also be
state of the art facilities, including Dolby technology, and the
seats would be larger with recliners, which would sufficiently
reduce capacity. Ms Davies advised that the Applicant had held a
pre-application meeting with Environmental Health and had taken on
board their advice. The Sub-Committee heard that no increases in
bar facilities were proposed. However, the capacity would be
reduced from 1,922 persons to 1,413 persons, and a further
reduction to 953 persons during the terminal hour. This represented reductions of over 26% and over 50%
respectively. Ms Davies referred to the plans and explained that
customers would be greeted by staff on entering the Premises in
order to provide an enhanced customer experience. CCTV would be
monitoring the Premises throughout and all staff would be radio
linked. W/C provision would also be enhanced. Ms Davies advised
that the Premises already had a tables and chairs licence, however
the external ...
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