Agenda and draft minutes

Purpose

To consider an application to vary the existing premises licence.

Recommendation

That the panel considers the application and the relevant representations and decide whether to:

a) grant the application as applied for,

b) grant the application with modified conditions, or

c) reject the application in whole or in part.

Attendance

The hearing is open to the public.

Only the applicant, his representatives, local authority officers and those who wrote to the licensing authority (interested parties) during the consultation period may speak to the licensing panel.

Date issued: 24 September 2013

Reason for Hearing

To determine the application for a variation to the premises licence for The Square, 10 Market Place, Henley on Thames (4337) made under section 34 of the Licensing Act 2003 (the Act). 

Decision

The Panel[1] grants the application for variation to the premises licence for The Square, 10 Market Place, Henley on Thames for the area shown on the submitted plans and with hours and conditions as set out below: 

Opening hours of the premises:

Sunday to Thursday                0900 to 0000

Friday and Saturday    0900 to 0200 the following day

Sale of alcohol (on the premises)

Sunday to Thursday                1100 to 2330

Friday and Saturday    1100 to 0130 the following day

Sale of alcohol (off the premises)

Sunday to Saturday                1100 to 2200

See condition 20

Late night refreshment (indoors only)

Sunday to Thursday                2300 to 2330

Friday and Saturday    2300 to 0130 the following day

Recorded music, and anything of a similar description to live and recorded music and performances of dance (noting that on the application, this is listed as recorded music only)

Sunday to Thursday                1100 to 0000

Friday and Saturday    1100 to 0200 the following day

Non standard timings:

During Regatta week (Monday to Sunday), and on Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve: one hour later than the normal finishing time for each permitted activity.

Conditions are attached:

Mandatory conditions as required by the licensing authority.

The conditions proposed by Environmental Protection and agreed by the applicant:

1.             To avoid nuisance to residential premises, noise emanating from the licensed premises as a result of regulated entertainment shall not be clearly audible at the external boundary of any residential premises.  If it is possible to determine where the noise is coming from and speech, lyrics, melody or bass components are distinguishable at the monitoring point (the external boundary of any residential premises) then the noise will be considered to be clearly audible.

2.             No regulated entertainment shall take place until the front door lobby and glazing to the front of the premises has been installed in accordance with the details specified in  the acoustic report described prepared by Clement Acoustics, ref 8076-NIA-01 RevA, dated 9 May 2013.

3.             At least one of the two lobby doors to be installed in compliance with condition 2 above must be closed at all times when live or amplified music is being played.

4.             A sound limiting device shall be fitted to the amplification system and shall be located in a separate lockable cabinet which is remote from the volume control, set at a level determined by the local authority.  The operational Panel of the noise limiter shall then be secured to the satisfaction of an authorised officer and access to  ...  view the full minutes text for item 3.