To consider a report of the Head of Regulatory Services.

The Head of Regulatory Services submitted a report informing members of an application for the grant of a premises licence for So Marrakech, 25 Market Street, Altrincham, WA14 1QS which had attracted representations from local residents.

Representations were made against the application by local residents and in support of the application by the applicant Miss A Damoussi.

RESOLVED:

(1)  That the application for the grant of a premises licence be granted subject to compliance with the conditions outlined in the decision notice.

(2)  That the issue of the licence be delegated to the Head of Regulatory Services.

LICENSING SUB-COMMITTEE DECISION NOTICE

Sub Committee      Councillor S J Haughey

Members:               Councillor E L Hirst

                               Councillor J Holden

Applicant:    Anissa Damoussi

Type of Licence:    Grant of a Premises Licence: So Marrakesh ,25 Market Street, Altrincham WA14 1QS.

Representors:        Environmental Health

                     Nasreen Ali

                     Local Residents

                     Nicola Bradshaw

Sara Coulson

                     Marc Dightam

                     Eleanor Hotchkiss

Parties Present:     Applicant

          Anissa Damoussi

                     Local Residents

                     Nicola Bradshaw

Sara Coulson

                     Eleanor Hotchkiss

Officers

Ursula Smith – Licensing Officer

Pelumi Coker - Legal Assistant Corporate Governance

James Parry – Legal Officer

                               Natalie Owen – Democratic Officer

Date of Hearing:     19^th December 2024

Time Commence:  6.30 p.m.

Time Terminated:  7:00  p.m.

LICENSING SUB-COMMITTEE DECISION

The Sub-Committee determined to grant a premises licence in respect of the premises known as “So Marrakesh, 25 Market Street, Altrincham WA14 1QS subject to the conditions shown in the schedule to this document.

LICENSING SUB-COMMITTEE’S REASONS

We had the benefit of receiving the Licensing Officer’s Report, a copy of the application and supporting documents and written representations from Nasreen Ali on behalf of Environmental Health and from Nicola Bradshaw, Sara Coulson, Marc Dightam and Eleanor Hotchkiss.

We were satisfied that the application had been properly made and that the applicant had complied with the Rules that regulated the advertising of the application.

We were also satisfied that the representations we have referred to above were received in time and were properly made so as to require us to consider them.

We were advised that the Applicant had agreed to conditions proposed by Environmental Health in advance of the hearing and on the Applicant consenting to have those conditions endorsed upon any licence we might grant, Ms. Ali’s representation was withdrawn.

We had the benefit of hearing from the remaining Representors who appeared before us. There was a common theme within those representations which was that the existing businesses and licensed premises within the location of these premises generates noise and a degree of nuisance. The Representors were all concerned that a grant of a further licence to the Applicant would increase the incidence of such nuisance.

The Representor’s stated that there was already too much noise in the area which prevented them from sleeping. Another said that they were worried that patrons of the Applicant’s premises might urinate in the entrances to the residential buildings above the retail premises and press the door buzzers. There was a further complaint of existing rowdiness in  ...  view the full minutes text for item 9.