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The Assistant Director Waste, Fleet and Transport Services will present a report (Document “M”) which outlines an application for a new Betting Premises Licence (other than a track) in respect of Betfred, 9 Folly Hall Road, Bradford, BD6 1UL.

Recommended –

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

(Melanie McGurk – 01274 431873)

Commenced: 10:00

Adjourned:    10:58

Reconvened:  11:07

Concluded:     11:10

Parties to the hearing: 

Applicant

David Wheeler (Development Manager of Betfred)

Mike Owen (Solicitor)

Objectors

Mr and Mrs Eltoft

Legal Representative

Robert Brown

Nighat Rasool (Observer)

Saika Razaq (Observer)

Licensing Officer

Melanie McGurk

The Assistant Director Waste, Fleet and Transport Services presented a report (Document “M”) which outlined the application for a new Betting Premises Licence (other than a track) in respect of Betfred, 9 Folly Hall Road, Bradford, BD6 1UL.

The Bradford District Licensing Panel carefully considered all the relevant information including:

• Written and verbal representations by all the parties
• The Licensing Conditions and Code of Practice
• Guidance to licensing authorities
• Gambling Act 2005 (A Statement of Licensing Principles for the Bradford District 2022-2024)

The Licensing Officer gave a brief summary of the application and informed the Panel that a single representation had been received from local residents that had raised concerns of anti-social behaviour, nuisance and noise caused by customers of the premises. Furthermore, concern was also raised of a risk to children being exposed to issues which might arise from the opening of the premises.

Whist the applicant had not asked for the statutory default condition concerning the times of operation to be removed, it was noted the default times of permitted licensable activities of 7:00 am to10:00 pm on each day of the week were applicable.

At the request of the Chair, the Applicant’s Representative addressed the Panel, and by doing so, provided an overview of the history of Beffred and background of betting services in its entirety.

It was stated that the proposed application would enable Betfred to re-site its existing betting shop from 228 High Street, Wibsey, to 9 Folly Hall Road, Wibsey. It was confirmed that in the event of the application being granted, the existing licence for 228 High Street would be surrendered when the new premises would be opened.

The Panel was informed the current premises were tired and dated and did not allow Betfred to provide the quality of facilities. The new premises would offer better, modern and improved facilities for its customers and staff. Amongst the improvements would be a modern shop fit; better lighting; air conditioning; modern toilet facilities; improved staff facilities, and tea and coffee facilities.

The new premises’ operating hours would be 9:00 am to 9:30 pm Mondays to Fridays; 8:30 am to 9:30 pm on Saturdays and 9:30 am to 8:00 pm on Sundays.

The Panel noted that planning permission was granted for the proposed application in July 2022, with no conditions attached. In addition, the existing premises were inspected by the Licensing Authority when undertaking a compliance assessment in 2018.

During the presentation, the Panel was shown a brochure containing photographs of the exterior and interior of the existing shop, together with the current and proposed layout plan.

The Applicant’s Representative addressed the matters raised by the objectors and stated that no evidence whatsoever was provided to support the  ...  view the full minutes text for item 6.