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Disclosures by Members and Officers
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There were no disclosures by
Members or Officers.
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Disclosures of Lobbying
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There were no disclosures of
lobbying.
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Exempt Items
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RESOLVED: That the Items on the Agenda
be taken in public as proposed.
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Application for a Premises Licence to be Varied Under the Licensing Act 2003 - Solar Collective Ltd, 1 Boughton Bottom Cottages, Lower Farm Road, Boughton Monchelsea, Maidstone, Kent, ME17 4DD. PDF 101 KB
Additional documents:
Minutes:
The
Chairman requested those present to introduce themselves, explained the procedures and Members
confirmed that they had read all the papers.
Mrs Bolas explained that the hearing was regarding an application
to vary three conditions of a Premises Licence granted on 29 July
2013 under the Licensing Act 2003, made by Solar Collective Ltd, in
respect of the premises Grid ref: TQ76730 48721, open grass
field-land, with attached woodland, off Lower Farm Lane, Boughton
Monchelsea. Representations had been
received from 8 other persons and no representations had been
received from responsible authorities.
It was noted that a revised copy of Appendix D to the original
papers had been re-circulated prior to the meeting as two
conditions had been missed off the original.
Mr. Townsend, on behalf of the applicant, stated in his opening
remarks that he was a Director of Solar Collective Ltd which had
been set up to run events and his family had lived and worked on
the Farm since 1947.
Mr. Townsend then submitted his evidence in support of the
application to vary the conditions of the Premises
Licence. He stated that he and another
colleague had monitored the noise levels at the event last year and
at no time were the levels above those agreed. The monitoring equated to 6 hours off site each
day and they had travelled 67 miles over the weekend in the course
of the monitoring.
He stated that they were aware that sound does travel and there
were some concerns from the Parish Council and local residents that
the noise levels were going up the hill. To address those concerns, he intended to change
the direction of the stage to the south for the next event and use
objects to deflect sound up. It was hoped that this would lessen
the effect of the noise for those locals to the north of the site.
However, he did not want this to be a condition as it needed to
remain flexible to take account of conditions. He would like to
reduce the monitoring periods to 5 minutes except for inside the
yard of the farm to remain at 15 minutes, (which is level with the
nearest noise sensitive property and can be checked
frequently.
Mr. Townsend stated that at last year’s hearing his Company
suggested that each position should be monitored for noise levels
at least three times a day. As the
readings that were undertaken were all well under the required
levels, they felt that the frequency of monitoring the noise levels
at all the locations were excessive and could be decreased to at
least once during an event instead of at least three times during
each day of an event. EHos have not
objected. There is no change to the event itself or to the music
noise level condition.
Mrs Evans, representing the views of Boughton Monchelsea Parish
Council, questioned the applicant.. The Parish Council
had concerns that should the proposal to move the stage not reduce
the ...
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