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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:

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 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 Chairman explained the procedure for the meeting including that a guideline time limit of twenty minutes had been allocated for all parties.

4.

Application for the Review of a Premises Licence- Ali's Takeaway pdf icon PDF 66 KB

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

 

b. DETERMINATION OF THE APPLICATION FOR THE REVIEW OF A PREMISES LICENCE- Ali’s Takeaway

 

c. ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE DECISION FOR THE APPLICATION FOR THE REVIEW OF A PREMISES LICENCE- Ali’s Takeaway

 

 

Additional documents:

Minutes:

The Licensing Panel considered an application submitted by the Licensing Authority to review the Premises Licence in respect of Ali’s Takeaway, 136 Central Drive.

 

Mr M Marshall, Licensing Authority, was in attendance and outlined the evidence submitted and the concerns raised by the Licensing Authority.  With this consent of the Licence Holder further additional evidence

 

The Licence Holder, Mr M Anwar, accompanied by his son was in attendance and made representations regarding the Review Application.

 

The Panel were not satisfied with Mr Anwar’s explanation regarding the incident with the suspected illegal immigrant on his premises and believed that he had sought to frustrate the further investigation of this incident.

 

The Panel considered that the Licence Holder’s conduct and actions therefore undermined the Licensing Objectives and that the only way to promote them in the future was to revoke the Premises Licence.

 

Resolved:

 

That the Premises Licence in respect of Ali’s Takeaway, 136 Central Drive, be revoked.