Agenda and minutes

The Chair welcomed everyone to the meeting and introductions were made.  Apologies were given for the late start of the meeting due to technical difficulties with the audio visual equipment which would be used to present CCTV footage during the meeting.

The Senior Licensing Officer outlined the purpose of the hearing, stating that on 27 June 2013 an application for a review of the premises licence for Lost, 8 St Peters Square, Northampton NN1 1PS was submitted by Northamptonshire Police on the grounds of the Prevention of Crime and Disorder and Public Safety.  Notices of the review had been displayed as statutorily required.  He detailed the procedure that would be used during the meeting.

Application for the Review

PC Bryan, before presenting the application for the review, stated that the Police would be requesting that under regulation 14(2) and 14(3) of the Licensing Act 2003 (Hearing) Regulations 2005 part of their presentation be made following the exclusion of the public.  This request related to two pieces of CCTV footage relating to criminal investigation which would be shown to the Sub-Committee during the meeting.  A further piece of CCTV footage was not the subject of criminal investigation and could be shown when the public were present at the meeting.

The Sub-Committee agreed to the request that two pieces of CCTV footage be shown after the public had been excluded from the meeting on the basis that it considered the public interest in doing so outweighed the public interest in the hearing, or that part of the hearing, taking place in public and in these circumstances a representative of the respondent would be treated as a member of the public.

PC Bryan stated that the review of the premises licence for Lost had been called by the police under the Licensing Objectives of the Prevention of Crime and Disorder and Public Safety. He gave a brief overview of the premises, stating that Mr David Randle had been granted a premises licence for Lost on 24 November 2005 and had been named as the DPS for the premises.  There had been changes to the DPS on the following dates:

19 April 2007 – Jonathan Barnes

25 February 2008 – David Randle

16 July 2010 – Barry Hunt

7 October 2011 – Jason Kelly

10 December 2012 – Johnny Simpson

David Randle had remained as the Premises Licence Holder throughout all the changes of DPS.  The premises had not been always been trading throughout this period, as Mr Randle would be able to confirm.

On 10 December 2012 a variation of the premises licence was made which allowed the premises to remain open until 5:00am Monday-Thursday and Sunday and 6:00am on Friday and Saturday.  Additional conditions had been agreed between the Premises Licence Holder and Northamptonshire Police and applied to the premises licence that:

• No admissions to the premises be allowed after 03:00 hours;
• On Fridays and Saturdays from 23:00 hours until the close of business at least two SIA registered door supervisors be  ...  view the full minutes text for item 1.