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Items
No. Item

LIC9

Apologies for Absence and Declarations of Interest

To receive any apologies for absence and declarations of interest.

Minutes:

There were no apologies for absence.

 

Councillor Freeman declared a non-pecuniary interest as a resident living in close proximity to the premises.

 

Councillors Freeman, Pepper and Smith declared personal, non-prejudicial interests due to one of the objectors being a fellow Council Member.

 

LIC10

Application for a Premises Licence pdf icon PDF 89 KB

To consider the application for a premises licence for Chater`s General Store and Aperitivo Bar, Church Street, Saffron Walden.

Additional documents:

Minutes:

The Panel and Officers present introduced themselves to the applicant.

 

The Senior Licensing and Compliance Officer gave a summary of his report which requested that Members determine the application.

 

He clarified the specific address of the premises and the licensing hours of the proposed premises, both of which differed slightly from that specified on the application.

 

The Police District Licensing Officer noted their concern of potential of noise nuisance as a result of customers utilising the outside area. She confirmed that they had negotiated with the applicant and that conditions prevented the provision of outside furniture.

 

Mr Eke, in his capacity as a member of the public detailed his concerns and noted that the Senior Licensing and Compliance Officer had addressed some but not all of his concerns. These included:

  • The large size of the warehouse and whether the lease covered the whole building or just the area proposed for use
  • Whether the lease would allow expansion into the whole warehouse
  • The safety of the building which was asbestos and cement clad
  • The location of the mezzanine
  • The potential risk of fire
  • The emergency access limitations of having only one access down a three metre wide lane
  • The absence of the vault distillery from the application
  • The potential for noise nuisance with music permitted from 9:00am to 11:00pm
  • The presence of five licensed premises within a two hundred metre radius of the premises
  • Parking issues already existed on Church Street, particularly at weekends
  • Protection of children that are not required to be accompanied by an adult when attending the licensed premises during the day.

 

The Senior Licensing and Compliance Officer confirmed that the vault distillery required a separate specialist license.

 

The Applicant explained that he and his family had moved to Saffron Walden in 2021 and hoped to move their aperitivo bar business from London to Saffron Walden and become part of the local community.

 

He said that:

  • The lease did not apply to the whole warehouse
  • The vault distillery was a small area for workshops and tastings for a maximum of ten people. It was housed in a fireproof cabinet and had a separate risk assessment
  • The rotary evaporators distil under vacuum at forty degrees
  • They had provided seating for twenty five customers, and would not offer service at the bar
  • They would not over-serve and would not offer discounts
  • The access and escape route limited maximum numbers to fifty customers
  • They have installed a second exit, which was a rolling shutter door mainly used for deliveries
  • The distillery was located at the front side, not on the resident side of the building
  • An external wall was being erected to contain the business
  • Child safety was a key objective
  • The license times were in place to enable customers to purchase items to take away for future consumption and to enable the online element of the business to operate. It was not intended to serve alcohol from 9:00am
  • The business would operate as a café during the day and as  ...  view the full minutes text for item LIC10