The Committee will appoint a Chair and Vice-Chair for this particular meeting.

Agreed that Councillors Mrs Bowyer was appointed as Chair and Councillor Gordon was appointed as Vice Chair for this meeting.

Members will be asked to make any declarations of interest in respect of items on this Agenda.

There were no declarations of interest in accordance with the code of conduct.

To receive reports on business which, in the opinion of the Chair, should be brought forward for urgent consideration.

There were no items of Chair’s Urgent Business.

The Director for Community Services will submit a report on the variation of a premises licence.

The Committee having –

Agreed that having listened to what was said by all parties Members acknowledged that all applications must be dealt with on their own merits. However Members considered that the application should be adjourned pending the outcome of the appeal of the Bac Bar which was in the same area as Open Air and where substantially the same representations had been raised.  The committee was advised that the issues on which the Court was likely to determine in that appeal may have a bearing on this application.  For this reason the adjournment was considered to be in the public interest in accordance with Plymouth City Council’s hearing regulations. It was not possible to set a date for the hearing of this application as no court date for the appeal had been provided, however authority to set a new hearing date was delegated to the Licensing Officer once a final appeal date was known.

To consider passing a resolution under Section 100A(4) of the Local Government Act 1972 to exclude the press and public from the meeting for the following item(s) of business on the grounds that it (they) involve(s) the likely disclosure of exempt information as defined in paragraph(s) 7 of Part 1 of Schedule 12A of the Act, as amended by the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

There were no items of exempt business.

The Director for Community Services will submit a report on the variation of a premises licence.

Minute 15 refers.