Duston Sports Centre

Cotswold Avenue, Northampton

Completed application 027440 which is a New Application for Premises Licence from 07/08/2012 to indefinite

Applicant(s)

Designated Premises Supervisor

Permitted Activities

• an indoor sporting event
• a boxing or wrestling entertainment
• a performance of live music
• any playing of recorded music
• a performance of dance
• entertainment of a similar description to that falling within a performance of live music, any playing of recorded music or a performance of dance
• entertainment facilities for making music
• entertainment facilities for dancing
• entertainment of a similar description to that falling within entertainment facilities for making music or dancing
• the sale by retail of alcohol

Additional Conditions

• ANNEX 1 - MANDATORY CONDITIONS

   

  The following mandatory conditions are to be applied to the licence stated above in accordance with section 3 (1) of The Licensing Act 2003 (Mandatory Licensing Conditions) Order 2010.

   

  The following conditions shall come into force on 6th April 2010

   

  1. (1) The responsible person shall take all reasonable steps to ensure that staff on relevant premises do not carry out, arrange or participate in any irresponsible promotions in relation to the premises.

   

     (2) In this paragraph, an irresponsible promotion means any one or more of the following activities, or substantially similar activities, carried on for the purpose of encouraging the sale or supply of alcohol for consumption on the premises in a manner which carrries a significant risk of leading or contributing to crime and disorder, prejudice to public safety, public nuisance, or harm to children-

   

                (a) games or other activities which require or encourage, or are designed to require or encourage, individuals to-

                             

                              (i) drink a quantity of alcohol within a time limit (other than to drink alcohol sold or supplied on the premises before the cessation of the perod in which the responsible person is authorised to sell or supply alcohol), or

                              (ii) drink as much alcohol as possible (whether within a time limit or otherwise);

   

                (b) provision of unlimited or unspecified quantities of alcohol free or for a fixed or discounted fee to the public or to a group defined by a particular characteristic (other than any promotion or discount available to an individual in respect of alcohol for consumption at a table meal, as defined in seciton 159 of the Act;

                (c) provision of free or discounted alcohol or any other thing as a prize to encourage or reward the pruchase and consumption of alcohol over a period of 24 hours or less;

                (d) provision of free or discounted alcohol in relation to the viewing on the premises of a sporting event, where that provision is dependent on-

   

                              (i) the outcome of a race, competition or other event or process, or

                              (ii)the likelihood of anything occurring or not occurring;

   

                (e) selling or supplying alcohol in association with promotional posters or flyers on, or in the vicinity of, the premises which can reasonably be considered to condone, encourage or glamorise anti-social behaviour or to refer to the effects of drunkenness in any favourable manner.

   

  2. The responsible person shall ensure that no alcohol is dispensed directly by one person into the mouth of another (other than where that other person is unable to drink without assistance by reason of a disability).

   

  3. The responsible person shall ensure that free tap water is provided on request to customers where it is reasonably available.

   

  The following mandatory conditions are to be applied to the licence stated above in accordance with section 3 (1) of The Licensing Act 2003 (Mandatory Licensing Conditions) Order 2010.

   

  The following conditions shall come into force on 1st October 2010

   

  4. (1) The premises licence holder or club premises certificate holder shall ensure that an age verification policy applies to the premises in relation to the sale or supply of alcohol.

   

     (2) The policy must require individuals who appear to the responsible person to be under 18 years of age (or such older age as may be specified in the policy) to produce on request, before being served alcohol, identification bearing their photograph, date of birth and a holographic mark.

   

  5. The responsible person shall ensure that-

   

                (a) where any of the following alcoholic drinks is sold or supplied for consumption on the premises (other than alcoholic drinks sold or supplied having ben made up in advance ready for sale or supply in a securely closed container) it is available to customers in the following measures-

   

                              (i)   beer or cider: 1/2 pint;

                              (ii)  gin, rum, vodka or whisky: 25 ml or 35 ml; and

                              (iii) still wine in a glass: 125 ml; and

               

                (b) customers are made aware of the availability of these measures.

   

  Mandatory conditions where licence authorises supply of alcohol

   

  (1)              No supply of alcohol may be made under the premises licence -

   

  (a)              at a time when there is no designated premises supervisor in                          respect of the premises licence, or 

   

  (b)              at a time when the designated premises supervisor does not hold a personal licence or his personal licence is suspended.

   

  (2)              Every supply of alcohol under the premises licence must be made or authorised by a person who holds a personal licence.

   

   

• ANNEX 2 - CONDITIONS CONSISTENT WITH THE OPERATING SCHEDULE

   

  Premises Licence - Outdoor Events - Noise conditions

  1.              Outdoor events with live and recorded music shall comply with clause 3.3 of the Council’s Policy for the avoidance of Public Nuisance.

  3.3 The licensee shall ensure that the volume of noise due to music and singing and fixed plant and equipment shall be so controlled by the licensee so as not to give reasonable cause for annoyance.  Notwithstanding the above, any noise shall not be audible within any noise sensitive premises.

  Where this has been breached, the licensee will review the noise control measures that are in place and implement a revised scheme that has been agreed with the Licensing Authority.

  2.              Certain types of events may be considered major events.  Major events are deemed to be those events which might breach clause 3.3, such as Concerts, Dances and Discos, and are expected to attract numbers of people.  It is not the Council's intention to prevent such events altogether and therefore the following conditions shall apply to major Events.

  2.1.              The number of Major Events per year shall not exceed four.

  2.2.              The date and start time of each Major Event shall be notified to the Council at least 14 days in advance of each event.

  2.3.              The maximum music noise level during a Major Event, for live and recorded music, shall not exceed 65dBA at the boundary of the nearest noise sensitive premises.

  2.4.              A Major Event shall cease no more than four hours after the start time notified in Clause 2.2 above but must comply with Clause 3 below.

  A Major Event may be in addition to other activities on the same day that involve live or recorded music, provided those other activities comply with Clause 3.3 of the Councils Policy on the avoidance of Public Nuisance and Clause 3 below.

  3.              Live or recorded music shall not be audible at the boundary of any noise sensitive premises after 2300 Monday to Saturday, or after 2230 on a Sunday.

   

  Measurements shall be taken in real time using instantaneous values and a Fast time weighting viewed on an analogue display, or shall be based on stored data derived from short Leq measurements of no more than 1/125 s, or instantaneous values stored at no more than 1/125 s intervals.  Instrumentation shall be agreed with the Council.