Agenda and decisions

To receive and note apologies for absence.

At this point in the meeting, Members and co-opted members are asked to declare any disclosable pecuniary interest, or other registerable interest, they might have in respect of business on this agenda, if they have not already done so in advance on the Register of Interests. The disclosure must include the nature of the interest.

An interest must also be disclosed in the meeting when it becomes apparent to the member during the meeting.

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To consider excluding the Press and Public during the sub-committee’s deliberations and decision-making at the end of the hearing, on the grounds that the public interest in excluding the public outweighs the public interest in that part of the meeting taking place in public, under Regulation 14 of the Licensing Act 2003 (Hearings) Regulations 2005.

To approve and sign the minutes of the Licensing Hearingheld on 13 November 2025.

The Sub-Committee resolved to grant the licence for the following activities and timings with modified/additional conditions imposed by the Sub-Committee (Option 2) as set out below:

The Operating Schedule conditions contained on pages 5 to 7 of Agenda Supplement 2 – Additional information from the Solicitor to the Applicant, published on 9 April 2026, shall be added to the licence SUBJECT TO the following modified and additional conditions:

Modified conditions

(a)  Minimum seating capacity at the premises when the premises is open and operating as follows:

Lower floor – 60

Upper Floor – 20

Outside terrace areas - the minimum number of seats provided for customer use when the terraces are open to the public (when the weather permits) are: lower terrace 20 and upper terrace 40.

(b)  Condition 21:

Signs shall be displayed near the exits reminding customers to respect the needs of those living nearby and to leave the premises as quietly as possible.

No outdoor speakers or TV screens will be used at any time.

Deliveries of alcohol will be made to from Lendal and shall not be made down the side of Guildhall.

No bottles to be removed from the premises into outside bottle bins during office hours of 08:00 to 18:00 hours Monday to Friday when this could disturb local businesses.

The manager will ensure that each day an area laid out to tables and chairs on the lower terrace (as agreed with the Landlords) will be set aside and reserved for staff of businesses overlooking the terrace from 9:00 to 17:00 hours Monday to Friday for the consumption of their own food and soft drinks.

(c)  Condition 25

In all parts of the premises where alcohol is sold or supplied for consumption on the premises the premises shall be predominantly food led and as a minimum a substantial food and non-intoxicating beverages including water shall be available to order between 10:00 and 21:00 hours. For the avoidance of doubt, a substantial food menu shall be available to order between these hours each day.

Additional conditions

(d)  Alcohol consumed on the outside terrace areas shall only be consumed by customers seated at tables. For the avoidance of doubt, there shall be no vertical drinking of alcohol in any delineated external area as shown on the plan attached to the licence.

(e)  Smoking and vaping by customers must be restricted to a designated smoking/vaping area away from the neighbouring offices.

The licence is also subject to the mandatory conditions applicable to licensed premises.