The Sub-Committee will elect its Chairman for the meeting.

It was moved by Councillor V E Guglielmi, seconded by Councillor J Henderson and:-

RESOLVED - that Councillor Cossens be elected Chairman for the meeting.

The Committee is asked to note any apologies for absence and substitutions received from Members.

There were no apologies for absence or substitutions.

To confirm and sign as correct records, the minutes of the last meeting of the Premises/Personal Licences Sub-Committee A, held on 14 August 2017 and the last meeting of the Premises/Personal Licences Sub-Committee C, held on 20 November 2017.

The minutes of the following meetings were approved as correct records and signed by the Chairman:-

(1)    last meeting of the Premises/Personal Licences Sub-Committee ‘A’ held on 14 August 2017; and

(2)     last meeting of the Premises/Personal Licences Sub-Committee ‘B’ held on 20 November 2017.

Councillors are invited to declare any Disclosable Pecuniary Interests or Personal Interest, and the nature of it, in relation to any item on the agenda.

There were no declarations of interest.

The Sub-Committee will consider an application for the grant of a Premises Licence in respect of the above premises.

The Chairman (Councillor Cossens) welcomed everyone to the meeting, made introductory remarks and stated that he wished to give an equal amount of time to both the applicants and the objectors to make their cases. He proposed 30 minutes for each side.

There was then short period of time where the list of objectors who wished to speak was compiled and it was also agreed by the Chairman that Councillor S A Honeywood, a local Ward Member would speak on behalf of all Tendring District Councillors who were present in the public gallery.

The Council’s Licensing Manager (Karen Townshend) then gave a verbal summary of the written report and advised that the Sub-Committee had before it, for its consideration, as set out in item A.1 of the Report of the Corporate Director (Operational Services), an application for the Grant of a Premises Licence at Holland Football Club, The Clubhouse, Dulwich Road, Holland-on-Sea.

Section 2.2 of the written report set out the original proposed opening hours for the premises which were:-

Mondays to Thursdays – 1000 to 0030 hours

Fridays and Saturdays – 1000 to 0230 hours

Sundays – 1000 to 0130 hours

However, following concerns raised, on the application as a whole, by the Council’s Environmental Services, being a Responsible Authority, Mr Sorrell, the Chairman of Holland Football Club had agreed to make the following amendments to the application (as set out in Section 2.3 of the report):-

Regulated Entertainment for the Outside Areas

Mondays to Thursdays – 1100 to 2200 hours

Fridays and Saturdays – 1100 to 2300 hours

Sundays – 1100 to 2200 hours

Premises Closing Times

Mondays to Thursdays – 0030 hours

Fridays and Saturdays – 0130 hours

Sundays – 0030 hours

The Council’s Environmental Services section had confirmed that they would have no objection to those amended hours.

The Licensing Manager made the Sub-Committee aware that, since the aforementioned agreement with Environmental Services, Mr Sorrell had further revised the proposed opening hours after taking into consideration the objections raised by local residents. Those further amended opening hours were as follows:-

Mondays to Thursdays – 1100 to 2300 hours

Fridays and Saturdays – 1100 to 0000 hours

Sundays – 1100 to 2300 hours

The Licensing Manager then reported that the proposed licensable activities applied for by the applicant were before Members in Sections 3.1 to 3.5 of the written report.

The applicant had stated the steps that they proposed to take to promote the statutory Licensing Objectives within her Operating Schedule and these were detailed in Sections 4.1 to 4.5 inclusive.

The Sub-Committee was informed that a petition had been submitted by Holland Football Club showing 320 persons in support of the application and that 17 individual letters of support had been received in relation to this application.

Members were further informed that 147 letters of representation/objection had been received in relation to this application.

It was reported that no other Responsible Authorities had made representations on the application.

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