Agenda and minutes

Councillor Snow was appointed as Chair for this meeting.

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.

No declarations of interest were made by Members.

It is considered unlikely that the Committee would wish to exclude the press and public during consideration of the items on this agenda.  If, however, the Committee were to exclude the press and public, a resolution in the following form should be passed:

“RECOMMENDED that, under Section 100A (4) of the Local Government Act 1972, the press and public be excluded from the meeting for the particular item(s) on the grounds that it (they) involve the likely disclosure of exempt information as defined in paragraph(s) of Part I of Schedule 12A of the Act.”

To pass the following resolution:

RESOLVED that, under Section 100A (4) of the Local Government Act 1972, the press and public be excluded from the meeting for items and on the grounds that if involves the likely disclosure of exempt information as defined in paragraphs 1 and 2 of Part I of Schedule 12A of the Act.

RESOLVED that, under Section 100A (4) of the Local Government Act 1972, the press and public be excluded from the meeting for the consideration of the following items on the grounds that they involved the likely disclosure of exempt information as defined in Paragraph 1 of Part I, Schedule 12A of the Act.

To consider the report of the Service Lead - Environmental Health & Community Safety.

The Chair introduced the Members of the Licensing Sub-Committee together with the Legal Advisor, Apprentice Solicitor, Principal Licensing Officer and Democratic Services Officer. The Legal Advisor set out the hearing procedure and the Applicant, who was in attendance, agreed that the procedure was understood.

The Licensing Officer presented the application to seek the granting of a premises licence for Stripes Pizza at 30 South Street, Exeter as set out in the report.

The application included a plan of the proposed new licensable area and the Applicant had included additional conditions in the application to promote the Licensing Objectives.  It was confirmed that the application had been advertised on the premises and in the local newspaper in accordance with the requirements of the Licensing Act 2003, with the last date for representations being 14 June 2024.

It was confirmed that six representations objecting to the Application relating to all four Licensing Objectives were received.  The representations were from Environmental Health, Planning and four residents.  The representations were listed in an appendix to the report.

The Applicant spoke in support of their application and responded to questions from Members and the Legal team.

Representations were made by both Environmental Services and the public against the application.

All parties present were advised that a decision notice would be issued within five workings days of the hearing.

The meeting was closed so that the Members could determine the application.

RESOLVED that the application be granted as applied for, subject to conditions for the reasons set out in the formal decision notice attached.