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Contact: Jane Lythgow/Tracey Sugden 

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1.

DISCLOSURES OF INTEREST

(Members Code of Conduct - Part 4A of the Constitution)

 

To receive disclosures of interests from members and co-opted members on matters to be considered at the meeting. The disclosure must include the nature of the interest.

 

An interest must also be disclosed in the meeting when it becomes apparent to the member during the meeting.

 

Notes:

 

(1)       Members may remain in the meeting and take part fully in discussion and voting unless the interest is a disclosable pecuniary interest or an interest which the Member feels would call into question their compliance with the wider principles set out in the Code of Conduct.  Disclosable pecuniary interests relate to the Member concerned or their spouse/partner.

 

(2)       Members in arrears of Council Tax by more than two months must not vote in decisions on, or which might affect, budget calculations, and must disclose at the meeting that this restriction applies to them.  A failure to comply with these requirements is a criminal offence under section 106 of the Local Government Finance Act 1992. 

 

(3)       Members are also welcome to disclose interests which are not disclosable pecuniary interests but which they consider should be made in the interest of clarity.

 

(4)       Officers must disclose interests in accordance with Council Standing Order 44.

 

Minutes:

All Members disclosed that they had previously considered an application on the site of the application being discussed.   They declared that the application would be considered entirely separately and reviewed accordingly. 

2.

INSPECTION OF REPORTS AND BACKGROUND PAPERS

(Access to Information Procedure Rules – Part 3B of the Constitution)

 

Reports and background papers for agenda items may be inspected by contacting the person shown after each agenda item.  Certain reports and background papers may be restricted. 

 

Any request to remove the restriction on a report or background paper should be made to the relevant Strategic Director or Assistant Director whose name is shown on the front page of the report. 

 

If that request is refused, there is a right of appeal to this meeting. 

 

Please contact the officer shown below in advance of the meeting if you wish to appeal. 

 

(Jane Lythgow - 01274 432270)

 

Minutes:

There were no appeals submitted by the public to review decisions to restrict documents. 

 

3.

CHA DONUTS, 3 FOOD COURT, INGLEBY ROAD, BRADFORD BD8 9AN - APPLICATION FOR A PREMISES LICENCE pdf icon PDF 144 KB

The Interim Assistant Director Waste, Fleet and Transport Services will present a report (Document “O”) which outlines an application for the grant of a Premises Licence for the provision on late night refreshment to take place indoors.

 

Members are invited to consider the information and documents referred to in Document “O” and, after hearing interested parties, determine the related application.

 

(Melanie McGurk – 01274 431873)

 

Additional documents:

Minutes:

Commenced: 1215

Adjourned: 1250

Reconvened: 1300

Concluded: 1305

 

 

PRESENT

 

Members of the Panel

Bradford District Licensing Panel: Councillor Slater (Chair), Councillor Dodds and Councillor Godwin

 

Parties to the Hearing

 

Responsible Authorities

Ms C Williamson, Environmental Health

 

Interested Parties

Councillor Aneela Ahmed

 

Representations

 

The Interim Assistant Director Waste, Fleet & Transport Services presented a report (Document “O”) which outlined an application for the grant of a Premises Licence for the provision of late night refreshment to take place indoors for Cha Donuts, 3 Food Court, Ingleby Road, Bradford BD8 9An. 

 

The panel was also advised of objections to the application which had been made by the Local Authorities Environmental Health Department, Bradford West Area Co-ordinator, a Traffic and Enforcement Officer and a ward councillor.

 

The applicant was not in attendance at the meeting and the Interim Assistant Director related the steps proposed by the applicant to address the Licensing Objectives.

 

A representative from the Council’s Department of Environmental Health addressed the meeting and reported continuing involvement with the site where the premises were located and complaints resulting in a Community Protection Notice being issued on 16 October 2020 to all units on the site. The notice prevented vehicle access to the premises between 2330 and 0700 hours and had been issued to curtain anti-social behaviour between those hours which was affecting residents living in the vicinity of the premises and affecting the highway.  It was explained that there was also litter nuisance associated with that site and people accessing that site by car were driving recklessly and causing noise nuisance with music blasting from their vehicles.

 

A Panel Member questioned the duration of the Community Protection Notice and it was explained that the notice would remain whilst problems were experienced. Once the issues were resolved the notice could be withdrawn or closed. It was not felt that the problems had been resolved and a meeting was planned with the managers of the site shortly.  In response to questions about any request to customers to behave appropriately it was reported that, due to hostility which had been received from the previous approaches made to customers, Environmental Health Officers no longer visited the site alone and were accompanied by police officers. It was clarified that the hostility had been from customers and not from the managers of the site.

 

The Council’s Legal Officer raised a number of issues for clarity and it was confirmed that failure to comply with the Community Protection Notice was a criminal offence and that there had been failures.  The notice was issued to all five retail units on the site and the problems occurring were from all five of those businesses.

 

A Ward Councillor addressed the meeting and reiterated concerns documented in her representation included in Document “O”. It was explained that this was a complex issue for Ward Councillors with huge gatherings of vehicles compromising highway safety in the area.  It was reported that customers of the nearby supermarkets felt intimated and that the traffic was  ...  view the full minutes text for item 3.