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Chief Officer of Police Representation in relation to an application for grant of premises licence made under Part 3 Section 17 Licensing Act 2003 (S18 Licensing Act 2003)

 

Details of person making representation

Name of Chief Officer of Police

Chief INSP Ray Quiller

Postal Address:

(Area Headquarters)

 

 

Maidstone Police Station

Palace Avenue

Maidstone

ME15 6NF

E-mail address

 

Telephone Number:

 

 

Details of premises representation is about

Name of Premises:

The Cavendish

Address of premises:

8 Cavendish Way

Bearsted

Maidstone

Kent

ME15 8PW

Date application received by police

11/09/2019

Date representation sent to Licensing Authority

 

 

Must be within 28 days of receipt –

The Licensing Act 2003 (Premises Licences and Club Premises Certificates) Regulations 2005. Part 4 Reg. 22.

 

The Chief Officer of Police has received an application for the grant of a premises licence made under the provisions of Section 17 Licensing Act 2003, and under Section 18 of that Act, asks the Licensing Authority to consider these representations in respect of: -

Please tick one or more of the licensing objectives that the representation relates to:

Prevention of crime and disorder

X

Public Safety

X

Prevention of public nuisance

X

Protection of children from harm

X

 

Is this a representation regarding the Designation of Premises Supervisor under S18 (9) Licensing Act 2003?                                NO

If yes, complete the following statement: -

The relevant representation within the meaning of S.18(6) of the Licensing Act satisfy the requirements of S.18(9) of that Act and are as follows

 

 

 

Please use separate sheets where necessary

 

The relevant representations within the meaning of S.18(6) of the Licensing Act satisfy the requirements of S.18(7) of that Act and are as follows:

 

Please give the reason for the representation and detail the evidence supporting it:

Kent Police make these representations in respect of a new license application for the “THE CAVENDISH” which is going to be located Cavendish Way, Bearsted, Maidstone, ME15 8PW.

 

The application is for a ground floor property with a front patio and small car park to the rear. There will be no more than 100 persons at one time on the premises. The requested hours of operation for the premises will be 08:00hrs and 23:00hrs. Recorded music, late night refreshment and supply of alcohol will be 08:00hrs and 23:00hrs. Live music will be 10:00hrs and 23:00hrs for this application.

 

Kent Police understand that the applicant intends the premises to be used as a café that will supply a range of various foods freshly prepared on site for customers along with alcohol. The premises is looking to hold supper clubs offering customers a unique dining experience of all foods of various cultures.

The premises will provide customers the opportunity to sit at the venue to listen to recorded/Live music, consume food and drink (alcohol).

 

This licence needs to be robust enough to cover all possibilities in promoting the licensing objectives.

 

Kent Police believe the venue may undermine the licensing objectives in the following ways:

 

It needs to be understood that this Premises Licence will potentially allow people to drink alcohol from 08:00hrs to 23:00hrs, some of them may become involved in acts of crime and/or disorder. If persons are involved in disorder this will have a significant impact on the local community which has a lot of elderly and young families as it is a rural location. Therefore steps need to be taken to control the noise coming from the premises as well as controlling the noise of customers leaving the premises. It is obvious when customers leave the premise there is potential their actions may impact on local residents living directly in the vicinity and when you add in the fact that they have been drinking for some time, the problem will be magnified. 

The premises is a ground floor café with an estimated capacity of approx. 100 persons, the café will offer food and drink including alcohol. As with any premises licensed for the sale of alcohol there is a likelihood that children may be exposed to the sale and consumption, measures must be in place to ensure that they are protected from such exposure.

 

Kent Police acknowledges that the application is accompanied by an operating schedule but do not feel that this is comprehensive enough to provide sufficient assurances that the licensing objectives will be upheld. Kent Police believes that the addition of the conditions suggested below are necessary to promote the licensing objectives and address the concerns stated.

 

Please use separate sheets where necessary

 

Suggested conditions that could be added to the licence to remedy the representation or other suggestions the Licensing Sub Committee may take into account:

Please use separate sheets where necessary

 

1)   CCTV will be provided in the form of a recordable system, capable of providing pictures of evidential quality in all lighting conditions particularly facial recognition. 

a.   Cameras shall encompass all ingress and egress to the premises, fire exits and all areas where the sale and supply of alcohol occurs.

b.   Equipment must be maintained in good working order, be correctly time and date stamped, recordings MUST be kept on the hard drive and kept for a period of  31 days and handed to Police upon reasonable request. 

c.   The premises licence holder must ensure at all times a DPS or appointed member of staff is capable and competent at downloading CCTV footage in a recordable format to the Police and Local Authority upon reasonable request.

d.   In the event of technical failure of the CCTV equipment the premises licence holder or DPS must report the failure to the Police Licensing Officer within 24 hours unless the CCTV will be repaired before that time (west.division.licensing@kent.police.uk)

 

2)   All persons that sell or supply alcohol to customers must have licensing training. 

a.   Training should take place within six weeks of employment and any new employees will be supervised until the training has taken place. 

b.   Refresher training should be repeated a minimum of every six months or earlier if required due to changes of legislation. 

c.   Training records must be kept on the premises and shall contain the nature, content and frequency of all training.

d.   Records must be made available for inspection by Police, Police Licensing Officer and authorised officers from the Local Authority upon request either electronically or hard copy.

 

3)   A refusal recording register will be in operation at the premises. All staff involved in the sale of alcohol will be fully trained in the system and it will record the following:

a.   Time of refusal

b.   Item refused

c.   Name of description of the person refused

d.   Reason for Refusal

e.   Name of staff member making the refusal.

 

4)   The refusal register will be available for inspection to any Police Officer, Local Authority Licensing Officer or Trading Standards Officer at any reasonable time.

 

5)   A Challenge 25 scheme will be adopted at the premises. All staff involved in the sale or supply of alcohol will be trained in the scheme and such training will be recorded. Such records will be available to the Police or other responsible authority upon request.

 

6)          ‘Challenge 25’ signs will be prominently displayed.

7)   The only proof of age that will be accepted by staff will be a photographic driving licence, a passport or a ‘PASS’ marked proof of age card.

 

 

Signed: James WILLIAMS                                                Date: 20/09/2019 

Print name:  James WILLIAMS                           Force Number: 11187

Pp Chief Officer of Police for the Police Area in which the licensed premises are situated.

 

Representation may be made at any time during the 28 consecutive days starting on the day after the day on which the application to which it relates was given to the authority by the applicant.

Please return this form along with any additional sheets to the Licensing Authority.

This form must be returned within the Statutory Period.