Agenda item

Ms Heidi Titcombe presented the report and explained that the council had dealt with two appeals in the previous calendar year. The first was regarding a review for the Pelican which had been requested by residents.  The Council had been able to reach a settlement whereby the operators had agreed to add a few more conditions to the licence to address issues raised by the residents by allowing 20 customers to sit outside each side of the premises as opposed to having 40 customers in All Saints Road. The Chair clarified that had there been better diagrams for the premises at the hearing it could have resolved at the hearing. Ms Titcombe concluded by informing the Committee that £31,000 had been paid to the council in costs by the operator.

It was explained that the other appeal was ongoing and related to Ricco Lounge which had been sought by the police. The Committee were told that there had been at least one and potentially four shots, and this had led to the request for the review of the licence. At the interim steps hearing, the licence was suspended with the consent of the premises, and this had not been appealed by the operator, but the decision in the full review hearing had been to revoke the licence and continue the suspension agreed at the interim steps hearing, and it was the revocation that had been appealed. The directions for the appeal hearing had been given a week prior, and in October the appeal hearing would take place where evidence would be provided by all parties. The police had applied to be added as a party to that hearing given the serious nature of the review, which emphasised the importance of the revocation. The decision of the appeal court would typically be given to the parties a month after the hearing.

The Committee noted the report for information.