The Business Partner (Litigation/Licensing)
welcomed all present to the Hearing, reported that no declarations
of interest had been received and introductions to all parties were
made. He also drew attention to the
procedure for the conduct of the Hearing as attached to the
agenda.
The following parties were present at the
Hearing:
(a)
Applicant
(i)
Thomas Janes, Director, HiFields Limited
(b)
Interested Parties
(i)
Henry Hopking, Chair of Nowton Parish Council (objector)
(ii)
Brian Wilson, Neighbourhood Watch (speaking on representations made
in objection to the application)
(iii)
Ian Bowers, local resident (objector)
(iv)
Pat Lees, local resident (objector)
(v)
Julie Morrison, local resident (objector)
(vi)
Prof. Gillian Schofield, local resident (objector)
The Licensing Officer presented the report
which explained that an application had been made by HiFields
Limited, for the grant of a premises license to run events at
Nowton Park, Bury St Edmunds where they currently held events under
a Temporary Event Notice. However, for
the premises licence application HiFields Limited had included
weekdays for flexibility in case new events were added to the
calendar. A copy of the application was
attached at Appendix A to Report number LSC/WS/22/007 together with
a site plan and event management plan at Appendix B and C.
The licensable activities being proposed under
the license were:
-
Supply of Alcohol
(Supply of alcohol (on sales))
Monday – Sunday 11:00 -
00:00
-
Provision of Recorded Music
(Outdoors)
Monday – Sunday 11:00 –
00:00
-
Provision of Live Music
(Outdoors)
Monday – Sunday 11:00 –
00:00
-
Provision of Films
(Outdoors)
Monday – Sunday 11:00 –
00:00
-
Provision of Performance and
Dance (Outdoors)
Monday – Sunday 11:00 –
00:00
The Licensing Officer referred to paragraph
1.5 on page 2 of the report and advised that an error had been made
relating to the consultation period.
She confirmed that the paragraph 1.5 should read as follows:
“A statutory
28-day consultation period started on 17 May 2022 16 June
2022 and ended on 28 June 2022 13 July
2022…”
The application had been served on all
Responsible Authorities. No comments
had been received. However, the officer reported that discussions
had been held between the Council’s Environmental Health Team
with the applicant and certain conditions had been agreed (attached
at Appendix E) which satisfied the Environmental Health Team under
the Licensing Objective of Public Nuisance, which included limiting
the number of events to 10 per year.
A total of 31 valid representations had been
received from “other persons” in the statutory time
frame objecting to the application and the details of these
representations were attached at Appendix F. The Sub-Committee was advised that contained
within the representations were a number of issues which did not
fall within the criteria of the Licensing objectives.
In making their decision, the Sub-Committee
was advised that they should seek to focus on the steps considered
appropriate to promote the particular licence objectives or
objectives that had given rise to the specific representations and
avoid straying into undisputed areas.
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