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

Agreed that Councillor Mahony was appointed Chair, and Councillor Morris as Vice Chair for this meeting. Councillor Loveridge acted as fourth member.

To receive apologies for non-attendance submitted by Committee Members.

No apologies received.

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 of Public Health will submit a report in relation to the application for the grant of a premises licence from Smileys Grocers 95 Mayflower Street, Plymouth, PL11SD for the Grant of a premises licence under Section 17 of the Licensing Act 2003.

Application for the Grant of a premises Licence – Smileys Grocers, 95 Mayflower Street, Plymouth

The Committee

a) Considered the report from the Director of Public Health

b) Heard from the applicant as follows:

The application is for the supply of Alcohol for consumption off the premises at:

Monday to Friday 09:00am  to 11.00pm

Saturday 11.00am to 11.00pm

Sunday Midday to 11.00pm

Hours the premises are open to the public are:

Monday to Friday 9.00am to 11.00am

Saturday 11.00am to 11.00pm

Sunday Midday to 11.00pm

Written representation from the applicant:

•the applicant is the designated premises supervisor (DPS) of Smileys Grocers,  and is a law abiding citizen and of good management skills. The business enterprise is fully aware of factors to always consider about it’s location and aim to do business in way that discourages anti-social behaviours but promote the four Licensing objectives. Similarly to Iceland supermarket that is in matching location with Smileys Grocers premises, we intend to sell alcohol off premises on a minimal scale compared to other items and will put measures such as follows in place:

a)no sales of cheap and high alcoholic drinks such as  Frosty Jack cider, Tennent’s Super  beer and so on.

b)no selling to anyone perceived as drunk or allow them inside premises

c)to always abide to any conditions of the license outlined by sub-committee 

d)clear challenge 25 information to prevent the supply of alcohol to underage drinkers

•for experimentation, the applicant obtained a licence for temporary event with (off the premises) alcohol sales in the recent festive and busy times of the year between 11am -9pm from 23rd December to 29th December 2017. The outcome was positive without any trouble and planned to have another temporary event before the set 13th of February 2018 Licensing Sub-Committee hearing date.

•it was observed that, the held temporary event good outcomes link to factor such as the type of alcohol products been sold, management and hours of operation.  At the moment our hours of operation is between 11am – 6pm Monday to Saturday with no immediate plan of extension. However, 2 or 3 hours (i.e. to close 8pm or 9pm) might be added to premises closing hour in future if need be.

At the committee meeting the applicant made the following additional representations:

•that the primary business is to supply a multi-cultural community;

•the shop is a UPS access point;

•that the applicant will work in an ethical way with the government bodies to promote the licensing objectives to provide something safe for the society;

•that in reply to the police representations but anti-social behaviour the applicant believes it is important to tackle anti-social behaviour but is not sure that not granting the licence will solve the anti-social behaviour in the area and believes this should be tackled by working in a collective way with the authorities and within the licensing objectives;

•that the sale of alcohol will be on a very small scale;

•will not be selling alcohol to attract street  ...  view the full minutes text for item 53.

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) ? 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.