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Agenda and minutes

Venue: Committee Room A, Town Hall, Blackpool

Contact: Lennox Beattie  Executive and Regulatory Manager

Items
No. Item

1.

APPOINTMENT OF CHAIRMAN

To appoint a Chairman for the meeting.

Minutes:

The Licensing Panel considered the appointment of a Chairman for the meeting.

 

Resolved:

 

That Councillor Hutton be appointed Chairman for the meeting.

2.

DECLARATION OF INTEREST - LICENSING

Members are asked to declare any interests in the items under consideration and in doing so state:-

 

(1) the type of interest concerned

 

(2) the nature of the interest concerned; and

 

(3) whether they have or have not sat on a Planning Committee which has previously considered a planning application in respect of a licensed premises which is also subject to consideration for a premises licence as part of the agenda for this meeting.

 

If any Member requires advice on declarations of interests, they are advised to contact the Head of Democratic Governance in advance of the meeting.

 

(Members are asked to also pay particular attention to the guidance sheet on interests supplied with the agenda).

Minutes:

There were no declarations of interest on this occasion.

3.

PROCEDURE FOR THE MEETING

The Chairman of the Panel will summarise the procedure and announce the equal maximum amount of time for each party to speak for the hearing.

 

A.         Items 1 and 4 (b) will be undertaken in private session by the Panel and not in the Meeting Room.

B.         Items 2, 3, 4(a) and 4(c) will be recommended to the Panel to be held in public.

C.         The Panel may decide to exclude the public from all or part of a hearing where it considers that the public interest in so doing outweighs the public interest in the hearing, or that part of the hearing, taking place in public. (This includes a party and any person assisting or representing a party)

Minutes:

The Licensing Panel considered the procedure for the meeting including that an equal time limit of ten minutes had been allocated for all parties.

4.

APPLICATION FOR THE REVIEW OF A PREMISES LICENCE- PALM BEACH HOTEL pdf icon PDF 373 KB

a. APPLICATION AND REPRESENTATIONS SUBMITTED. To consider the attached report

 

b. DETERMINATION OF THE APPLICATION FOR THE REVIEW OF A PREMISES LICENCE- PALM BEACH HOTEL

 

c. ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE DECISION FOR THE REVIEW OF A PREMISES LICENCE- PALM BEACH HOTEL

 

Additional documents:

Minutes:

The Licensing Panel considered an application for the review of the Premises Licence in respect of the Palm Beach Hotel, 595-601 South Promenade.

 

Mr Marshall, Head of Licensing Services, made representations. He emphasised that the licence had been suspended for non-payment of the annual fee for many years and on further inspection it was clear that the premises had now been demolished.

He explained that hold a licence suspended in his view undermined the Licensing Objectives

 

The Licence Holder was not in attendance and made no representations.

 

Resolved:

 

That the Premises Licence for the Palm Beach Hotel, 595-601 South Promenade, be revoked