To receive Declarations of personal and prejudicial interest (if any) from members/ officers in accordance with the provisions of the Members Code of Conduct adopted by Council from the 1st September 2008.

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The Team Manager Licensing presented a report asking Members to consider and determine Objection Notices submitted by South Wales Police in response to 3 Temporary Event Notices served on the Licensing Authority.

Decision Notice

The Licensing Sub-Committee held a hearing on the 3^rd January 2024 to consider this application made by the Applicant. The hearing was attended by an Officer from South Wales Police namely Fiona Colwill, Mr Ewen Macgregor Solicitor on behalf of Mr Rasul, and the premises licence holder Mr Rasul.

Material Before the Sub-Committee

At the outset of the hearing, the Sub-Committee had before it a report from the Council’s Licensing Officer; the objection notice from the Police, additional information from the Police namely CCTV footage and 3 word documents.

Representations made by the Applicant.

There are three applications for Temporary event notices and they're all exactly the same.

Mr MacGregor informed the Committee that in essence, the applications covered the last three weekends of January to enable the premises to trade for an additional hour on Friday night and Saturday nights for the last three weekends. The applicants are applying for a very brief extension of hours, an additional hour on the Friday nights and Saturday nights on those three weekends.

There was a notice that was submitted for New Year's Eve, but following discussions with officers, that application was withdrawn because it was established that the existing premises licence for Bar 35 authorised the premises to stay open until the hours that they had requested.

Mr MacGregor referred to the review hearing of the premise licence for Eden and informed the members that there was a review on the 5^th October 2023.  For the purpose of these applications, it was confirmed that so far as these three Temporary Event Notices are concerned Eden would be closed for refurbishment during these events.

It was explained that the officer made a comment about attaching conditions to the Temporary Event Notices, and it was confirmed that Bar 35 will operate in line with their licence conditions and at last entry to the premises will be at 2:00 in the morning. Bar 35 will provide door security and at least 4 door security will be provided on Friday night and at least six door security will be provided on Saturday night and the provision of door security will of course be kept under review for the continuation of the three Temporary Event Notices.

The Sub-Committee were informed that previous Temporary Event Notices have been granted for these premises, they go back to 2022, but for the same hours that they were seeking today and there were no issues in relation to the operation of those Temporary Event Notices and indeed, there's no evidence  produced by the police to show that previous Temporary Event Notice granted to these premises have undermined the licensing objective

Insofar as the police counter notice is concerned, the applicant has been provided with some papers, some CCTV and then very late in the  ...  view the full minutes text for item 15.