Agenda item

Nagomi, 4 Blenheim Street, W1

App

No

Ward /

Cumulative Impact Area

Site Name and Address

Application

Licensing Reference Number

2.

West End Ward /

Not in cumulative impact area

Nagomi, 4 Blenheim Street, W1

Variation of a Premises Licence

17/08686/LIPV

 

 

Minutes:

LICENSING SUB-COMMITTEE No. 4

Monday 9th October 2017

 

Membership:              Councillor Jean Paul Floru (Chairman), Councillor Melvyn Caplan and Councillor Karen Scarborough

 

Legal Adviser:             Horatio Chance

Policy Adviser:            Chris Wroe

Committee Officer:     Sarah Craddock

Presenting Officer:     Heidi Lawrance

 

Relevant Representations:         Environmental Health, The Metropolitan Police and One Local Resident.

 

Present: Rising Sun UK Limited (Applicants), Thomas and Thomas Partners LLP (Agent), Mrs Sally Fabbricatore (Environmental Health) and PC Bryan Lewis (Metropolitan Police)

 

Nagomi, 4 Blenheim Street, London W1S 1LD

17/08686/LIPV (“The Premises”)

1.

Late Night Refreshments:

Monday to Wednesday: 23:00 to 00:30

Thursday to Saturday: 23:00 to 00:30

 

 

Amendments to application advised at hearing:

 

None.

 

 

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

 

The Sub-Committee considered an application by Rising Sun UK (“The Applicant”) Limited for a variation of a Premises licence in respect of 4 Blenheim Street, London, W1S 1LD.

 

The Licensing Officer provided an outline of the application to the Sub-Committee.  She confirmed that representations had been made from the Police, Environmental Health and one local resident, although no further correspondence had been received from the local resident.  The Premises was 

not located in the Council’s designated cumulative impact areas. 

 

All parties were invited to make representations to the Sub-Committee in relation to the application.  The parties responded to the Sub-Committee’s  questions and were given an opportunity to ask questions of each other.

 

The Applicant’s Representative advised they wished to change the layout of the Premises, extend the hour for the sale of retail of alcohol and add off sales on Monday to Saturday from 12:00 until 00:00 and on Sunday until 23:00, add Late Night Refreshment Monday to Saturday 23:00 to 00:30 and extend the opening hours.   She further advised that following the take over and refurbishment of the Premises the owners wished to extend the licensing hours to allow them to be on a level playing field with other Premises in the area that had longer opening and licensable hours. 

 

The Applicant’s Representative stated that this was a small restaurant with 28 covers on the upper floor and 6 covers in the basement area of the Premises.  The Premises were not located in the Council’s designated cumulative impact areas and because of this the  Sub-Committee considered that the extension of hours would not have an adverse impact on public nuisance, especially as the  restaurant condition was attached to the licence in any event.  It was stated  that all conditions had been agreed with the Police and Environmental Health and that only alcohol purchased on the Premises with a table meal would be allowed to be taken off the Premises.

 

PC Bryan Lewis, representing the Metropolitan Police, confirmed that their representation was maintained as the application was outside of the Core Hours Policy.  He further confirmed that there were no crime and disorder issues at these Premises.  PC Bryan did request that the old CCTV condition be replaced by the new updated CCTV condition on the Premises licence.

 

Mrs Sally Fabbricatore, representing Environmental Health, (EH) confirmed that EH did not have any nuisance issues with this Premises or indeed with the extension of the licence to midnight.  EH  did advise the Sub-Committee that they would like Model Conditions MC16 and MC17, as well as the capacity condition to be added to the licence.

 

The Sub-Committee noted that conditions had been agreed with the Police and Environmental Health, that the Premises was situated outside of the Council’s designated cumulative impact areas and that there was no crime and disorder issues at the Premises. The Sub-Committee decided to grant the application with amended hours on Sunday from 12:00 to 22:30 and additional conditions one of which was ‘that there shall be no consumption of alcohol after midnight Monday to Saturday and after 10.30pm on Sunday’.

 

2.

Sale by Retail of Alcohol – On and Off

 

Current:

Monday to Saturday: 12:00 to 15:00 and 18:00 to 22:45

Sunday:12:00 to 15:00 and 18:00 to 22:15

 

Proposed Hours:

Monday to Saturday: 12:00 to 00:00

Sunday 12:00 to 23:30

 

Amendments to application advised at hearing:

 

None.

 

 

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

 

The application was granted, the reason for the decision is detailed in section 1.

3.

Hours Premises are Open to the Public

 

Current:

Monday to Saturday: 12:00 to 15:00 and 18:00 to 22:45

Sunday:12:00 to 15:00 and 18:00 to 22:15

 

Proposed Hours:

Monday to Sunday: 12:00 to 00:30

Sunday: 12:00 to 23:00

 

Amendments to application advised at hearing:

 

None.

 

 

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

 

The application was granted, the reason for the decision is detailed in section 1.

 

 

Conditions attached to the Licence

 

Mandatory:

 

1.         No supply of alcohol may be made at a time when there is no designated premises supervisor in respect of this licence.

 

2.         No supply of alcohol may be made at a time when the designated premises supervisor does not hold a personal licence or the personal licence is suspended.

 

3.         Every supply of alcohol under this licence must be made or authorised by a person who holds a personal licence.

 

4.          (1)      The responsible person must ensure that staff on relevant premises do not carry out, arrange or participate in any irresponsible promotions in relation to the premises.

 

(2)        In this paragraph, an irresponsible promotion means any one or more of the following activities, or substantially similar activities, carried on for the purpose of encouraging the sale or supply of alcohol for consumption on the premises—

 

(a)        games or other activities which require or encourage, or are designed to require or encourage, individuals to;

 

(i)         drink a quantity of alcohol within a time limit (other than to drink alcohol sold or supplied on the premises before the cessation of the period in which the responsible person is authorised to sell or supply alcohol), or

(ii)        drink as much alcohol as possible (whether within a time limit or otherwise);

 

(b)        provision of unlimited or unspecified quantities of alcohol free or for a fixed or discounted fee to the public or to a group defined by a particular characteristic in a manner which carries a significant risk of undermining a licensing objective;

 

(c)        provision of free or discounted alcohol or any other thing as a prize to encourage or reward the purchase and consumption of alcohol over a period of 24 hours or less in a manner which carries a significant risk of undermining a licensing objective;

 

(d)        selling or supplying alcohol in association with promotional posters or flyers on, or in the vicinity of, the premises which can reasonably be considered to condone, encourage or glamorise anti-social behaviour or to refer to the effects of drunkenness in any favourable manner;

 

 (e)       dispensing alcohol directly by one person into the mouth of another (other than where that other person is unable to drink without assistance by reason of a disability).

 

5.         The responsible person must ensure that free potable water is provided on request to customers where it is reasonably available.

 

6.          (1)      The premises licence holder or club premises certificate holder must ensure that an age verification policy is adopted in respect of the premises in relation to the sale or supply of alcohol.

 

(2)        The designated premises supervisor in relation to the premises licence must ensure that the supply of alcohol at the premises is carried on in accordance with the age verification policy.

 

(3)        The policy must require individuals who appear to the responsible person to be under 18 years of age (or such older age as may be specified in the policy) to produce on request, before being served alcohol, identification bearing their photograph, date of birth and either—

 (a)       a holographic mark, or

 (b)       an ultraviolet feature.

 

7.         The responsible person must ensure that—

(a)        where any of the following alcoholic drinks is sold or supplied for consumption on the premises (other than alcoholic drinks sold or supplied having been made up in advance ready for sale or supply in a securely closed container) it is available to customers in the following measures—

            (i)         beer or cider: ½ pint;  

(ii)        gin, rum, vodka or whisky: 25 ml or 35 ml; and

                        (iii)       still wine in a glass: 125 ml;

 

(b)        these measures are displayed in a menu, price list or other printed material which is available to customers on the premises; and

 

 

(c)        where a customer does not in relation to a sale of alcohol specify the quantity of alcohol to be sold, the customer is made aware that these measures are available.

 

A responsible person in relation to a licensed premises means the holder of the premise licence in respect of the premises, the designated premises supervisor (if any) or any individual aged 18 or over who is authorised by either the licence holder or designated premises supervisor.  For premises with a club premises certificate, any member or officer of the club present on the premises in a capacity that which enables him to prevent the supply of alcohol.

 

8(i)       A relevant person shall ensure that no alcohol is sold or supplied for consumption on or off the premises for a price which is less than the permitted price.

 

8(ii)      For the purposes of the condition set out in paragraph 8(i) above -

 

(a)        "duty" is to be construed in accordance with the Alcoholic Liquor Duties Act 1979;

 

(b)        "permitted price" is the price found by applying the formula -

 

P = D+(DxV)

 

Where -

           

(i)         P is the permitted price,

(ii)        D is the amount of duty chargeable in relation to the alcohol as if the duty     were charged on the date of the sale or supply of the alcohol, and

(iii)       V is the rate of value added tax chargeable in relation to the alcohol as if the value added tax were charged on the date of the sale or supply of the alcohol;

 

(c)        "relevant person" means, in relation to premises in respect of which there is in force a premises licence -

                       

(i)         the holder of the premises licence,

(ii)        the designated premises supervisor (if any) in respect of such a licence, or

(iii)       the personal licence holder who makes or authorises a supply of    alcohol under such a licence;

 

(d)        "relevant person" means, in relation to premises in respect of which there is in force a club premises certificate, any member or officer of the club present on the premises in a capacity which enables the member or officer to prevent the supply in question; and

 

(e)        "value added tax" means value added tax charged in accordance with the Value Added Tax Act 1994.

 

8(iii).    Where the permitted price given by Paragraph 8(ii)(b) above would (apart from this paragraph) not be a whole number of pennies, the price given by that sub-paragraph shall be taken to be the price actually given by that sub-paragraph rounded up to the nearest penny.

 

8(iv).     (1)      Sub-paragraph 8(iv)(2) below applies where the permitted price given by Paragraph 8(ii)(b) above on a day ("the first day") would be different from the permitted price on the next day ("the second day") as a result of a change to the rate of duty or value added tax.

(2)        The permitted price which would apply on the first day applies to sales or supplies of alcohol which take place before the expiry of the period of 14 days beginning on the second day.

 

Annex 2 – Conditions consistent with the operating Schedule

 

9.         The sale of alcohol 'On' the premises shall only be to persons taking a table meal there and consumption by such person as ancillary to their meal.

 

10.     That there shall be no consumption of alcohol after midnight Monday to Saturday and after 10.30pm on Sunday.

 

11.       The supply of alcohol shall be by waiter/waitress only.

 

12.       Non-intoxicating beverages, including drinking water, shall be available throughout the permitted hours in all parts of the premises where alcohol is sold or supplied for consumption on the premises.

 

13.      The premises shall install and maintain a comprehensive CCTV system as per the minimum requirements of the Westminster Police Licensing Team. All entry and exit points will be covered enabling frontal identification of every person entering in any light condition. The outside table area shall also be covered by external CCTV. The CCTV system shall continually record whilst the premises is open for licensable activities and during all times when customers remain on the premises. All recordings shall be stored for a minimum period of 31 days with date and time stamping. Viewing of recordings shall be made available immediately upon the request of Police or authorised officer throughout the preceding 31 day period.

 

14.      A staff member from the premises who is conversant with the operation ofthe CCTV system shall be on the premises at all times when the premises are open. This staff member must be able to provide a Police or authorised council officer copies of recent CCTV images or data with the absolute minimum of delay when requested

 

15.      An incident log shall be kept at the premises, and made available on request to an authorised officer of the City Council or the Police. It must be completed within 24 hours of the incident and will record the following:

           (a) all crimes reported to the venue

           (b) all ejections of patrons

           (c) any complaints received concerning crime and disorder

           (d) any incidents of disorder

           (e) all seizures of drugs or offensive weapons

           (f) any faults in the CCTV system, searching equipment or scanning

              equipment

           (g) any refusal of the sale of alcohol

           (h) any visit by a relevant authority or emergency service.

 

16.      All refuse will be paid, properly presented and place on the street 30 minutes before any agreed collection time.

 

17.      Customers are permitted to take from the premises part consumed and resealed bottles of alcohol supplied ancillary to their meal.

 

18.      The maximum number of persons permitted on the premises at any one time (excluding staff) shall not exceed 28 covers on the upper floor and 6 covers in the basement area. 

 

 

 

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