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Note: Please note that any member of the press and public may follow the public part of the proceedings at this ‘virtual’ meeting via a weblink which will be set out below ahead of the meeting.
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Apologies for absence Minutes: There were none. |
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Election of the Chairman The Panel is requested to elect a Chairman for the hearing in line with rules agreed by the Licensing and Safety Committee. Minutes: Councillor Mrs Diane Chambers was elected Chairman for this meeting. |
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Record of the meeting To agree that the Chairman, after consultation with the other members of the Panel, sign the record of this meeting outside the meeting. Minutes: It was agreed that the Chairman, after consultation with the other members of the Panel, would sign the record of this meeting outside the meeting. |
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Urgent matters by reason of special circumstances The Chairman will announce any late items which do not appear on the main agenda but which he/she has agreed should be considered by reason of special circumstances to be specified in the report. Minutes: There were none. |
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Declarations of Disclosable Pecuniary Interests and Other Significant Interests PDF 371 KB Members are invited to disclose any Disclosable Pecuniary Interests or Other Significant Interests in accordance with the Member Code of Conduct. Guidance on this is set out in agenda item 5.
Minutes: Disclosable pecuniary interests
There were none.
Other significant interests (OSIs)
There were none.
Other interests
There were none. |
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An application has been received from Kent Police for an Expedited Review of the premises licence at Fleur De Lis, 46 Gillingham Road, Gillingham, Kent, ME7 4RR. The Act requires expedited premises licence review applications to be considered within 48 hours, pending a full hearing of the issues within 28 days of the date that the application was served. In this case, the interim steps were agreed at a hearing held on 22 July 2020 where it was determined that the premises licence for Fleur De Lis be suspended, pending the full review hearing, which is the matter before the Panel. Additional documents: Minutes:
The Chairman asked the Licensing Manager to outline the matter before the Panel. The Licensing Manager stated that, in accordance with the Licensing Act 2003, the Council had received an application for an expedited review from Kent Police in relation to the premises licence for Fleur De Lis, 46 Gillingham Road, Gillingham, Kent, ME7 4RR, as the premises had been associated with serious crime and disorder. She explained that the Licensing Act 2003 required expedited premises licence review applications to be considered within 48 hours to consider what interim steps should be taken, pending a full review hearing within 28 days of the date that the application was served.
The Licensing Manager stated that the interim steps had been agreed at a hearing held on 22 July 2020, where it was determined that the premises licence for Fleur De Lis be suspended, pending the full review hearing, which was the matter before the Panel. The steps that the Panel could consider taking were:
(a) the modification of the conditions of the premises licence; (b) the exclusion of licensable activities from the scope of the licence; (c) the removal of the designated premises supervisor from the licence; (d) the suspension of the licence; (e) the revocation of the licence.
The following documents were included in the main agenda pack: -
A supplementary agenda had been published on 7 August 2020, which included the following documents:
PC Hill explained that an incident of serious crime and disorder had occurred at the premises on Sunday 19 July for which there was an ongoing investigation. A list of previous incidents at the premises notified to Kent Police was included in the supplementary evidence pack.
The Panel resolved to exclude the press and public from the hearing to enable CCTV footage of the incidents on 19 July 2020 to be shown. Two offences were being investigated in relation to the incident, the first being an assault occasioning actual bodily harm (ABH) and the second more serious assault occasioning grievous bodily harm (GBH). In addition, the crime scene had been cleaned following the incidents, although since the previous hearing it ... view the full minutes text for item 161. |
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Exclusion of the press and public PDF 96 KB It is recommended that the Panel exclude the press and public from the meeting during consideration of the exempt appendices and the decision-making process for the reasons set out in the report. Additional documents:
Minutes: Decision:
The press and public were excluded from the meeting during consideration of the exempt appendices to enable the Panel to view CCTV and also during the Panel’s deliberations and decision making in respect of agenda item6, because consideration of this matter in public would disclose information falling within paragraphs 1, 5, and 7 of Part 1 of Schedule 12A to the Local Government Act 1972, as specified in agenda item 7 (Exclusion of the Press and Public) and, in all the circumstances of the case, the Panel considered that the public interest in maintaining the exemption outweighed the public interest in disclosing the information. |