Meeting documents

Licensing Committee
Thursday, 15th January, 2004 10.00 am

Licensing Minutes

Date:
Wednesday, 19th November, 2003
Time:
10.00am
Place:
Civic Centre, Civic Suite
 

Attendance Details

ItemDescriptionResolution
Part I
809 Apologies and substitutions.
 Apologies for absence were received from Councillor Mrs Horrigan (Substitute Councillor Brown).
810 Declarations of interest.
 No interests were declared at the meeting.
811 Chairman's Announcement
Business for item 811
 
812 Minutes of the Meeting held on Wednesday, 22nd October, 2003
  • Minutes
Resolved:

That the Minutes of the meeting held on Wednesday, 22 October 2003 be received, confirmed as a correct record and signed.
813 The Cliff Public House, Hamlet Road, Southend-on-Sea, Essex - Application for the Grant of a Provisional Public Entertainment Licence
Business for item 813
Resolved:

The the application be granted subject to the following conditions:

1. Prior to the licence being made final the applicant shall:

(a) employ the services of a competent person to carry out an acoustic assessment of the Ground and First floor of the premises and to recommend such works as necessary to ensure inaudibility in noise-sensitive property at all times, based on a realistic assessment of future sound levels within the premises. The assessment should pay particular regard to:

(i) structure-borne noise through the party wall including sound insulation testing by an approved method of the party wall;

(ii) sound insulation to the existing ventilation extracts and any new ventilation system which may be installed to achieve the required ventilation standard;

(iii) the construction and design of the entrance/exit doors to limit sound transmission;

(iv) sound transmission through glazed structures; and

(v) measures to control internal sound levels.

(A ‘competent person' is considered for this purpose to be a member of the Institute of Acoustics or Association of Noise Consultants or other similarly qualified person with experience in carrying out environmental noise surveys.)

(b) The acoustic report shall be submitted for approval to the Group Manager - Environmental Health with full details of the acoustic measurements and calculations in support of the reports recommendations. The recommendations detailed in the acoustic report shall be completed to the satisfaction of Environmental Health to ensure inaudibility in noise-sensitive properties.

(c) Carry out all works as detailed in the schedule of work dated 29th July 2003 for the ground floor of the property and the schedule to be produced for the first floor function room, to the satisfaction of Group Manager - Environmental Health

2. The licensee shall take all reasonable steps to ensure that bottles or drinking vessels are not taken from the premises by departing patrons. (The term premises shall be taken to include all external areas under the control of the licencee(s)). The licensee(s) shall provide and maintain a suitable bin at the exit(s) for items collected in compliance with this clause.

3. Before any licence is granted, the licensee shall put in place appropriate managerial measures designed to reduce so far as is reasonably practicable disturbance to residential occupiers, in accordance with a scheme to be submitted to and approved by the Group Manager - Environmental Health. (In the absence of such approval, the matter to be referred back to the Licensing Committee for decision).
10.15 a.m./10.50 a.m.

Attendance Details

Present:
Councillor D J Jarvis (Chairman),
Councillors Mrs M F Evans (Vice-Chairman), N M Baker, R A H Brown*, R F Copley, M S C Foster & Mrs T M Merrison
(*Substitute in accordance with Council Procedure Rule 31B(2))
In attendance:
E Buchan, D Krieger, P Bradwell, M Peek & T Row

Business

ItemBusiness
811The Committee was informed that Mr Dave Pickup, former Chairman of the Southend Taxi Drivers' Association, had sadly passed away. Members commended his assistance and contributions when addressing the Committee and requested that a letter of condolence be forwarded to his family.

813The Committee received a report of the Director of Technical & Environmental Services concerning an application by the owners of The Cliff Public House for the grant of a provisional annual Public Entertainment Licence. A visit to view the premises to which the application referred was undertaken prior to the meeting. Mr Kinghorn, the applicant, Mr Coxwell, Area Manager, and Miss Stevenson, their legal representative were in attendance at the meeting.

The Committee noted that, should it minded to grant the application, the applicant would agree take appropriate action to prevent the benches located outside the premises being accessible after the the terminal hour as part of the scheme of management measures as set out in recommendation 2.1.3 of the report.

 

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