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Consideration was given to the report of the Head of Planning, Building Control and Licensing regarding a Summary Review of the premises licence at Queens Hotel, Sedgeford Rd, Manchester M40 8QU.

The summary review was requested by GMP following an incident at the premises which took place on Wednesday 24 November 2021. The application was made under section 53(B) of the Licensing Act 2003.

The Hearing Panel considered the written papers, oral representations of all parties as well as the relevant legislation.

GMP addressed the Hearing Panel and gave details of the reasons for their review application, having been informed of the incident whereby youths hid individual packets of class A drugs, a knife, a walkie talkie and stolen spirits in and around the Queens Hotel on 24 November 2021. Following this, an Interim Measures hearing was held on 26 November 2021 and the Hearing Panel suspended the licence pending the full review and any further information as CCTV footage was not available. The PLH then Appealed against the Interim Measures on 30 November 2021 and provided CCTV to back up their claim that the males were not linked with any operations at the Queens Hotel. Following this, the suspension was lifted, and the pub allowed to trade again.However, GMP still have concerns that the person in charge was unable to operate the CCTV system when GMP first attended. GMP therefore requested a new CCTV condition to be placed on the licence. Further they stated that other conditions on the Premises Licence are not worded robustly enough to ensure that the 4 licensing objectives are upheld. Therefore, GMP stated that they were looking to update the conditions on the licence. GMP confirmed that none of these conditions would be at any expense to the premises. GMP concluded by stating that their conditions had been included in the supplementary agenda.

The husband of the PLH, representing the Queens Hotel, addressed the Hearing Panel and stated that the business had taken a downward turn due to the suspension, with many patrons cancelling their Christmas bookings as they did not know what the outcome of the review would be. The representative stated that GMP had helped with a later licence to help them earn back some missing profits and stated that they were unable to obtain the CCTV in time for the first hearing. The representative explained to the hearing panel that they did not know the CCTV had to be accessed by a code however they have now brought a new CCTV system which they can access. The representative stated issues with the Appeal hearing as dates were confirmed for 30 November 2021, then 2 December 2021 and then back to the original date via a virtual hearing. The representative added that the premises has had a clean record for decades and that they didn’t want any conditions to put staff in danger as they were all pooed from the local area.

The Legal adviser to the Hearing Panel confirmed that  ...  view the full minutes text for item 181.