Agenda and minutes

Licensing Committee - Wednesday 26th February 2014 5.30 pm

Venue: Rennes Room, Civic Centre, Paris Street, Exeter. View directions

Contact: Howard Bassett, Democratic Services Manager (Committees)  Telephone 01392 265107 or email  howard.bassett@exeter.gov.uk

Items
No. Item

1.

Minutes

To sign the minutes of the meeting held on 19 November 2013.

 

Minutes:

The minutes of the meeting held on 19 November 2013 were taken as read and signed by the Chair as a correct record.

 

2.

Declarations of Interest

Councillors are reminded of the need to declare any disclosable pecuniary interests that relate to business on the agenda and which have not already been included in the register of interests, before any discussion takes place on the item. Unless the interest is sensitive, you must also disclose the nature of the interest. In accordance with the Council's Code of Conduct, you must then leave the room and must not participate in any further discussion of the item.  Councillors requiring clarification should seek the advice of the Monitoring Officer prior to the day of the meeting.

Minutes:

No declarations of discloseable pecuniary interest were made by Members.

LOCAL GOVERNMENT (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) ACT 1982

3.

Application for the Grant of a Sex Entertainment Venue Licence - EX4 - Eden Lounge, 162-163 Fore Street, Exeter pdf icon PDF 92 KB

To consider the report of the Assistant Director Environment.

(Copies of the appendices are available on request).  

 

 

Additional documents:

Minutes:

At 6.15pm Councillor Macdonald withdrew from the meeting. 

 

The Assistant Director Environment and Licensing Solicitor presented the report on the application by Valley Wood Resources Ltd (the Applicant) in respect of the premises Eden Lounge at 162-163 Fore Street, Exeter for the grant of a licence for a sexual entertainment venue (SEV) under the provisions of the above legislation. Kyriacos Kimitri, the Managing Director of the Applicant company was not in attendance. The Applicant was represented by Kitsons Solicitors of Torquay, and David Campbell, Barrister was instructed to attend from that firm.

 

An objector also attended the meeting.

 

The Notice of Determination is attached.

 

RESOLVED that, an exception to the Exeter City Council Policy on Sex Establishment Licences is found, in that there is a locality in Exeter, in which it would be appropriate to licence a Sex Entertainment Venue, and that this premises falls within this one such locality, consent for the application be granted subject to the conditions set out in the Notice of Determination.