Agenda item

Report of the Director of Markets and Consumer Protection.

N.B. This Item is to be read in conjunction with the non-public appendix at Item No. 17.

The Committee received a report of the Director of Markets and Consumer Protection detailing the premises licences, and variations to premises licences, granted under the Licensing Act 2003 by the Licensing Service from 1 October 2016 to 31 December 2016.

A Member requested that instead of stating that there was ‘no action possible’ with regard to a complaint, future reports should record where complaints were deemed to be unjustified or unsubstantiated. The Port Health & Public Protection Director stated that he would instruct the Environmental Health Pollution Team to add this detail to all future reports.

With regard to the list of conditions applied to Licences granted by way of Delegated Authority, the Deputy Chairman expressed concern at the fact that the Police Licensing Team were able to insist on a condition whereby no promoted events could be held at a premises save for where prior written agreement had been obtained from them without any Member consultation or formal hearing. She went on to state that she felt that it would also now be timely for the Committee to review its Model Condition regarding promoted events including its definition of promoted events. The Chairman agreed that this should be brought to the Committee for future, formal consideration.

The City of London Police stated that they tended to look at the likely offerings of any premises and negotiate any appropriate conditions based on this. The Committee were reminded that promoted events were significant for the Police in that they tended to result in the most violent incidents they had to deal with and that adequate control of these was crucial to the control of disorder in the City as a whole.

The Deputy Chairman went on to propose that the Committee should seek to undertake a review of all of its current Model Conditions as a whole rather than looking at the condition regarding promoted events in isolation. She stated that it was good practice to review this document cyclically. The Chairman called for a formal vote on this to ascertain how many Members would be supportive of the Committee reviewing the Model Licensing Conditions in their entirety. The results of the vote were as follows:

            FOR:  1 vote

            AGAINST:  9 votes

RECEIVED.