Agenda and minutes

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Members to declare any interests in matters to be discussed at the meeting.

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To consider an application for the grant of a new Premises Licence for Luxor Events, 152 Reddal Hill Road, Cradley Heath, B64 5JJ.

                  Further to Minute No. 58/23 (18 July 2023), the Sub Committee reconvened to consider the application for a Premises Licence in respect of Luxor Events, 152 Reddal Hill Road, Cradley Heath.

At its meeting on 18 July 2023, the Sub Committee had requested that matter be further adjourned to allow the applicant to provide a noise/acoustics assessment.

The Sub Committee took advice from its legal adviser before adjourning to make a decision on the application.

The Sub Committee was minded the grant the Premises Licence in respect of Luxor Events with the addition of further agreed conditions.

The premises had historically been used for commercial/ entertainment purposes for a number of years and the Sub Committee were presented with evidence of such use by the applicant going back to the earlier 2000s.  More recently in 2022 the Premises Licence was revoked. This decision related to a former Premises Licence Holder who was served with a statutory nuisance abatement notice but breached it on a number of occasions, holding music events until the early hours of the morning.

The current applicant had not been served with such a notice. The proposed hours of licensable activities and opening and closing were more modest.

The applicant, through a revised operating schedule (upon seeking professional advice), and further volunteered conditions as described above had sought to regulate their activities so as not to undermine the Licensing Objectives, particularly that of Public Nuisance.

In particular, it was apparent to the Sub Committee that bass noise intrusion until 11pm was of particular concern to the residents. The position of Environmental Health was and remained that they opposed the application being of the view that structural works of some measure were required to the premises to achieve appropriate noise attenuation.  However, if the decision was to grant the Premises Licence the Environmental Health Department proposed condition 10 set out to seek to tackle possible noise intrusion to the resident interested parties by bass. This proposed condition was referred to the applicant`s noise expert and accepted in principle.

The West Midlands Police had made representations that had been taken into account during the application process. As regards the issue of public nuisance however they accepted this was, in terms of noise measurement not their field of expertise and an issue for those qualified in that field primarily to comment upon.

Resolved the Premises Licence in respect of Luxor Events, 152 Reddal Hill Road, Cradley Heath be granted with the following conditions:-

-       The permitted opening hours of the premises are 9am to midnight, seven days a week;

-       The permitted licensable activities are:-

o   The supply of alcohol from 10am to 11pm, seven days a week;

o   The playing of live music from 10am to 11pm, seven days a week;

o   The playing of recorded music from 10am to 11pm, seven days a week;

o   The performance of dance from 10am to 11pm, seven days a week;

o   Any similar regulated entertainment to that described above from  ...  view the full minutes text for item 67/23