Agenda

To elect a Chairman for the Sub-Committee C meeting.

To receive from members declarations of interest in relation to any items included on the agenda for this meeting, in accordance with the Waverley Code of Local Government Conduct.

The purpose of the report at Appendix A is to enable the Sub-Committee to consider an application from Giraffe and Hobbit Limited for a new premises licence for the Giraffe and Hobbit, 28 Wey Road, Godalming Surrey GU7 1ND, where two valid representations have been received.

Recommendation

The Sub-Committee is requested to consider the application for the grant of a premises licence on its merits.

Having regard to the representations made, the Sub-Committee must take such of the steps outlined below (if any) as it considers appropriate for the promotion of the Licensing Objectives. Those steps are:

•           To grant the licence subject to such conditions as are consistent with the operating schedule, modified to such extent as the Sub-Committee considers appropriate for the promotion of the licensing objectives, and any mandatory conditions;

•           To exclude from the scope of the licence any of the licensable activities to which the application relates;

•           To refuse to specify a person as the premises supervisor;

•           To reject the application.

To consider the following recommendation on the motion of the Chairman:-

Recommendation

That pursuant to Procedure Rule 20 and in accordance with Section 100A(4) of the Local Government Act 1972, the press and public be excluded from the meeting during consideration of the following items on the grounds that it is likely, in view of the nature of the business to be transacted or the nature of the proceedings, that if members of the public were present during the items, there would be disclosure to them of exempt information (as defined by Section 100I of the Act) of the description specified in paragraph 3 or the appropriate paragraph(s) of the revised Part 1 of Schedule 12A to the Act as follows:-

Information relating to the financial or business affairs of any particular person (including the authority holding that information) (paragraph 3)

To consider any legal advice relating to any applications in the agenda.

[Note: Reports relating to confidential or exempt information may be excluded from those copies of the agenda provided for inspection by members of the public if they relate to matters during which the meeting is likely not to be open to the public].