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Contact: Claire Tomenson 

Items
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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:

No disclosures of interest in matters under consideration were received.

 

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. 

 

(Claire Tomenson - 01274 432457)

 

Minutes:

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

 

3.

COMMERCIAL INN, 61 PARK ROAD, THACKLEY, BRADFORD pdf icon PDF 86 KB

The Assistant Director Waste, Fleet and Transport Services will present a report (Document “D”) which requests consideration of a Temporary Event Notice for an event to be held in the car park of the Commercial Inn, 61 Park Road, Thackley, Bradford on 4 August 2018 from 14.00 to 21.30 hours.  The event includes the sale of alcohol and the provision of regulated entertainment.

 

Members are invited to consider the information and documents referred to in this report and, after hearing interested parties, determine the related application.

 

(Melanie McGurk – 01274 431873)

Additional documents:

Minutes:

RECORD OF A HEARING FOR CONSIDERATION OF A TEMPORARY EVENT NOTICE FOR THE COMMERCIAL INN, 61 PARK ROAD, THACKLEY, BRADFORD

 

Commenced:1100

Adjourned:1155

Reconvened:1202

Adjourned:1208

Reconvened:1211

Adjourned:1213

Reconvened:1216

Concluded:1217

 

Present

Members of the Panel

 

Bradford District Licensing Panel: Councillor Slater (Ch), Councillor Hawkesworth and Councillor Stelling

 

Parties to the Hearing

 

Representing the Applicant:

Miss Rayner – applicant

Mr Rayner – assisting the applicant

 

Representing the Responsible Authorities:

Ms Howarth – Environmental Health Officer

Ms Williamson – Environmental Health Officer (observing)

 

Representations

 

The Assistant Director Waste, Fleet and Transport Services presented a report (Document “D”) which requested consideration of a Temporary Event Notice for an event to be held in the car park of the Commercial Inn, 61 Park Road, Thackley, Bradford on 4 August 2018 from 14.00 to 21.30 hours.  The event included the sale of alcohol and the provision of regulated entertainment.

 

The applicant and her father attended the meeting and spoke in support of the application, stressing that the event which was planned would be well controlled; was principally organised for local patrons of the pub and would hopefully raise a lot of money for charity. They acknowledged that one or two neighbouring residents had been upset by noise in the past but stressed that a sound management company would be in attendance for the event and that sound monitoring would be undertaken.

 

They also advised that, due to the exceptionally good weather recently, they had held several outdoor events in recent months but stressed that these had only taken place between 1700 and 2000 on each occasion.

 

They expressed some frustration that such events took a lot of planning but they had only received notice of the complaints received within the last two weeks. They also considered it unreasonable that the event was in jeopardy as a result of a small number of complaints. They advised the Panel that any potential traffic problems had been forestalled as they had agreed the use of the local football ground for overspill parking.

 

In response to questions from the Panel, they confirmed that between 250-300 people had attended this event in previous years but that others in the year had been smaller and had taken place between 1700 and 2000 and had finished promptly.

 

A Member queried whether the Police had ever been in attendance and was advised that they had been called for a previous parking problem which had been discovered to be caused by a local resident’s vehicle rather than the event at the pub.

 

The Environmental Health Officer then made representations in respect of the objection; listing for Members’ information the complaints that had been received between 2016 and the present day in respect of these premises. They totalled six different complaints, usually received after an outdoor event and referred also to general problems of noise and disturbance from the pub due to music being played and doors and windows being left open.

 

She explained the process for issuing a noise abatement notice which could lead  ...  view the full minutes text for item 3.