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Chair's Communications

Minutes:

 

13.1  The Chair provided the following updates:

 

LA Committee Nov 2019

 

Pride 2019

 

“Jayne Babbs was unable to attend this committee meeting to talk about how Pride went but she will be coming to the March Committee to talk about it then and the plans for next year.  I would like to extend my congratulations to Jayne and Paul Kemp for another excellent Pride weekend.

 

Officially, there have been two debriefs since this year’s Pride. Firstly, a specific Pride Transport and Egress debrief and then an overall Pride debrief.

 

The feedback from Pride and those agencies involved was positive with none of the egress issues experienced last year. There was increased scrutiny of this year’s event with an Independent Safety Advisory Group overseeing the event planning process and an additional Transport and Egress group to develop and oversee the egress plan.

 

The recommendations from the debrief are currently being considered for next year’s planning.

 

SoLP review

Officers are starting to have meetings with partners and key stakeholders regarding the 5 yearly statutory review of the Council’s SoLP, including gathering data on alcohol related crime, nuisance and health matters with regard to reviewing the cumulative impact area.

 

Since the last wholesale review the legislation has changed regarding cumulative impact policies, putting them on a statutory footing with the requirement for local authorities to publish evidence to support any statement they have. We will need to consider whether there is the evidence to expand, reduce or keep the CIZ & SSAs the same. One consideration officers are looking at is expanding the SSA to include Preston Road and Beaconsfield Road north of Preston Circus to Preston Park.  We are also looking at the new ‘Work Station’ applications – this is where people hire/lease a space to work in a building owned by a company, such as Platform 9 at Hove Town Hall.  These company’s are applying for licenses to sell alcohol and we are looking at including this in the Matrix as it is a category that stands on its own and also in the policy document, thus giving some guidance to panel members when this type of application comes before them.  There is also an idea that maybe any cafes that open at Madeira Terraces can be open until later in the evening.

 

It is hoped to be able to present a draft revised policy to the March Licensing Committee 2020 in order to ask committee members to go out to consultation.

 

Members Training

 

I think that a large number of members went out on the two nights of Operation Marble and it seems to have been a great success.  This time we gained some real insights into how the actual operations work as we went with the police when they were called to incidents.  Lots of good feedback for this and a big thanks to Chief Superintendent Nick May for enabling this to happen and to Jo Player and Jim Whitelegg.

 

 

We’re hoping to arrange some members training early in the new year around the licensing application process and the special policy regarding cumulative impact. We have approached the police barrister as he was excellent in the last training session we did on this.”

 

13.2    RESOLVED: - That the content of the Chair’s Communications be noted and received.

 

 


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