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Proposal:     Temporary Event Notice – 01^st December 2012

Location:      Fever Club Rooms, Market Place, Nekwbury, RG14 5AA

Applicant:    Mr Jeremy Wilkinson

The Sub-Committee considered a report (Agenda Item 2(1)) concerning Licensing Application 12/01771/LKB in respect of a Temporary Event Notice for the Fever Club Rooms, 17A Market Place, Newbury RG14 5EN.

In accordance with the Council’s Constitution, Emilia Matheou (Licensing Officer, West Berkshire Council), Mr Andrew Woods (Solicitors for the Bar Fever Group - Applicant) and Suzanne McLaughlin (Senior Environmental Health Officer, West Berkshire Council) addressed the Sub-Committee on this application.

Ms Matheou, in addressing the Sub-Committee, raised the following points:

West Berkshire Council Licensing received notice on 05 November 2012 from the premises user Jeremy Wilkinson for a temporary event to be held at the premises Fever Club Rooms, Market Place, Newbury RG14 5EN.

The standard notice was given proposing the provision of regulated entertainment and the sale by retail of alcohol from 01 December 2012 to 02 December 2012 from 21:30pm to 04:00am for a maximum of 399 people.

Representation was received from Suzanne McLaughlin – Senior Environmental Health Officer exercising environmental health functions gave an objection notice to the Licensing authority on 07 November 2012.  The nature of the representation was on the grounds of prevention of public nuisance.  There was no evidence that mediation had taken place.

Mr Andrew Woods (Solicitor for the Bar Fever Group), in addressing the Sub-Committee, raised the following points:

The application to extend the operating hours from 03:00am – 04:00am for the 02December 2012 was made in the usual way.  He commented that we were all here today because of one objection and that objection was around historical noise complaints and the possible likelihood of public nuisance occurring.  The decision should be based on evidence and therefore the decision of the sub-committee should be that the application is approved.

Up to 12 temporary event notices can be applied for each year and this was the first application applied for this year.  The Police had raised no objections.  In 2010 there had been issues of noise which led to a noise complaint.  The Fever Club Rooms back onto flats and the directors of Fever Club Rooms liaised with Environmental Health Officers.  Work took place and no further record of any further noise complaints had been received by Fever Club Rooms since 2010.  No notification of any noise complaints either inside the Club or outside had been received.  On two occasions in 2011 Temporary Event Notices until 04:00am had been approved, no notification of any noise issues either inside or outside the Club had been notified to Fever Club Rooms, one was on New Years Eve.  Other premises in the Market Place were open until 04:00am and one until 05:30am, also the premises known as Liquids had recently been granted a licence until 04:00am.  It was envisaged that with a 04:00am close time it would spread the leavers.  No suggestion had been received from the Police regarding any problems.  Nowhere in the representation from Environmental Health did it state the dates, times and frequency of actual complaints which did  ...  view the full minutes text for item 2.