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Items
No. Item

53.

Application for a Premises Licence pdf icon PDF 95 KB

To determine an application for a premises licence.

Additional documents:

Minutes:

The applicant, Mr Nazmul Islam Tapadar, had not arrived by 10am.

 

The Licensing Team Leader left the room to call Mr Tapadar to ascertain his arrival time.

 

On her return to the room, she said Mr Tapadar had not answered her call.

 

The Chairman began proceedings at 10.10am.

 

The Chairman explained procedure and introduced the panel to the police officers present.

 

The meeting was adjourned at 10.17am to allow the Enforcement Officer to leave the meeting to check if Mr Tapadar had arrived. On his return, he said Mr Tapadar had not arrived.

 

The meeting was re-convened at 10.20am.

 

The Licensing Team Leader presented her report to the panel and gave a summary of the new application for a Premises Licence to be granted to Radhuni restaurant, Newport.

 

A previous premises licence had been held by Radhuni restaurant under a different holder but had been revoked by the Licensing & Environmental Health Committee on 6 December 2017. This was on the basis that ‘the prevention of crime and disorder’ licensing objective, as defined in the Licensing Act 2003, had been breached due to illegal workers being found on site by Immigration Officers in September 2017.

 

A new application for Radhuni restaurant had now been made in the name of Mr Nazmul Islam Tapadar. The Licensing Authority served copies of this application to all of the statutory bodies. Representations were made by the Home Office (Immigration Enforcement) and Essex Police based on the crime and disorder objective. For this reason the application had been referred to the Committee for determination.

 

At 10.27am, the Chairman adjourned the meeting and requested that the Licensing Team Leader call Mr Tapadar again. On her return, she said there had been no answer, although she had left a message for him.

 

The Chairman re-convened the meeting at 10.33am.

 

The Solicitor said the application before Members had to be judged on its own merits in accordance with the Council’s licensing policy and the Licensing Act 2003. She said ample opportunity had been given to the applicant to attend the meeting and was satisfied he had received notice.

 

The Chairman invited Ms Powell to present her report to the panel.

 

Ms Powell said she had concerns regarding the application, particularly because it was received so soon after the revocation of the previous licence, and evidence suggested this was an attempt to re-licence Radhuni restaurant ‘through the back door’.

 

She said the new application presented itself as a separate business entity, although in reality Mr Tapadar was the ‘silent’ business partner of the previous applicant, Mr Ahmed. Internet searches had found that Mr Tapadar and Mr Ahmed were dissolved officers of the same company (Radhuni UK Ltd inc 13/07/2005), and that Mr Tapadar was Director of Curryworld London Ltd, a company that was registered to the same address as Radhuni restaurant, as of 19/09/17.

 

Ms Powell said this showed the new application was not for a separate business, and in reality no change of management had occurred at  ...  view the full minutes text for item 53.