The Academy

16-20 Gold Street, Northampton, NN1 1RS

Completed application 045610 which is a Cancellation/Surrender/Lapsed for Premises Licence from 31/03/2015 to 27/10/2015

Applicant(s)

Designated Premises Supervisor

Permitted Activities

• a performance of a play
• an exhibition of a film
• 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
• provision of late night refreshment
• the sale by retail of alcohol

Additional Conditions

• Licensing Act 2003

   

  This licence is granted on the condition that the restrictions contained within the enactments specified under the Licensing Act 2003 Schedule 8 (1 & 6) are adhered to.

   

  ADDITIONAL 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.

   

   

   

• ANNEX 1 - MANDATORY CONDITIONS

   

  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.

• Conditions

   

  Below are the additional steps that you have agreed to undertake to promote the four Licensing Objectives and which form a part of the operating schedule for these premises: -

   

  There must be no admission or re-admission to the premises on any day after 03.00a.m.. This will not prevent a person from leaving the premises for a short period for the purposes of smoking tobacco.

   

  The management and staff will at all times comply fully with the Police and other Authorities

   

  An incident log shall be maintained and be made available on request by an Authorised Officer.  Intervention of Door Supervisors to remove a customer will be recorded as barred or ejected in the exclusion/banning log.  Entry refusals and reasons must be recorded for refusal of entry or refusal of service.

   

  A refusals book must be maintained and made available on request to an officer from a Responsible Authority.

   

  Crime prevention notices shall be posted at the request of the Police or an Authorised Officer

   

  The Premises Licence Holder, Designated Premises Supervisor or Duty Manager shall maintain a register indicating the name of the person in charge of the management of the premises, numbers of staff, performers (where appropriate) and any door supervisor, showing their names and SIA license numbers. The Duty Manager, DPS or Premises Licence Holder shall at all times upon request by the Police provide a contact number for the door security. SIA registered door staff must wear high visibility jackets.

   

  CCTV equipment shall be maintained that conforms to the provisions of the Data Protection Act 1988, the specification of which must be approved by the Police. Recording must be made until the premises ceases to be open to the public. Such recordings to be retained for 30 days. Sufficient members of staff must be trained in data retrieval so that such data can be made available on request by the Police at any reasonable time. Camera locations/positions must be approved by Northants Police and include the designated routes for ejecting customers, the outside frontages and the smoking area.

   

  Written risk assessments must be maintained, monitored and regularly updated relating to health and safety, fire risk and any other legisdlation in relation to safety and welfare of members of the public and staff.

   

  The Premises Licence Holder will ensure machinery and/or equipment associated with the running of the business does not cause noise or vibration. Emptying of bottles or skips and similar style activities will not take place between 22.30 and 08.00. No sound shall be allowed to emit from the premises as to cause nuisance to occupants of residential properties. If required to do so at any time by the Licensing Auhority's Environmental Health Officer the Premises Licence holder must install a sound limiter, the type and setting of such limiter to be approved in advance by the Licensing Authority's EHO.

   

  The premises to adopt a protocol of age verification whereby any person who does not appear to 25 years of age will be required to produce ID in the form of a passport, photographic driving licence, H.M. Forces I.D. card or an identification card displaying the 'PASS' Hologram logo. Relevant posters must be displayed.All stafff must be trained in the age protocol and a record maintained.

   

  In the case of any Temporary Event Notice submitted for the Premises, the operators of said Temporary Event Notice will carry on licensable activities adhering to the existing conditions within the Premises Licence.

   

  All products are to be served or decanted into polycarbonate glasses/cups.  This condition will not apply to champagne or wine served in bottles in VIP area(s).

   

  Any changes to the venue management policy document to be notified to the Licensing Authority and Northants Police within 14 days.

   

• The following mandatory conditions are to be applied to the licence stated above in accordance with The Licensing Act 2003 (Mandatory Licensing Conditions) Order 2014.

  The following conditions shall come into force on 28th May 2014

  1.  A relevant person shall ensure that no alcohol is sold or supplied for consumption on or off the premises for a price which is less than the permitted price.

  2. For the purposes of the condition set out in paragraph 1-

                (a) “duty” is to be construed in accordance with the Alcoholic
                    Liquor Duties Act 1979
                (b) “permitted price” is the price found by applying the formula-

                                             P = D + (DxV)

  Where -

       (i)   P is the permitted price,

        (ii)  D is the rate of duty chargeable in relation to the alcohol as if
               the duty were charged on the date of the sale or supply of the
              alcohol, and
       (iii) V is the rate of value added tax chargeable in relation to the
              alcohol as if the value added tax were charged on the date of
              the sale or supply of the alcohol;

  (c) “relevant person” means, in relation to premises in respect of which there is in force a premises licence -

                (i) the holder of the premises licence,
              (ii) the designated premises supervisor (if any) in respect of
                    such a licence, or
              (iii) the personal licence holder who makes or authorises a
                    supply of alcohol under such a licence;

  (d) “relevant person” means, in relation to premises in respect of which there is in force a club premises certificate, any member or officer of the club present on the premises in a capacity which enables the member or officer to prevent the supply in question; and

  (e) “value added tax” means value added tax charged in accordance with the Value Added Tax Act 1994.

  3.  Where the permitted price given by Paragraph (b) of paragraph 2 would (apart from this paragraph) not be a whole number of pennies, the price given by that sub-paragraph shall be taken to be the price actually given by that sub-paragraph rounded up to the nearest penny.

  4.  (1)  Sub-paragraph (2) applies where the permitted price given by Paragraph (b) of paragraph 2 on a day (“the first day”) would be different from the permitted price on the next day (“the second day”) as a result of a change to the rate of duty or value added tax.

       (2) The permitted price which would apply on the first day applies to sales or supplies of alcohol which take place before the expiry of the period of 14 days beginning on the second day.

   

• Conditions added following Premises Licence Review Hearing 3rd March 2015

   

  Capacity

   

  1)              The total capacity of the venue, including staff, customers or any other persons be 380. At any one time capacity on the first floor be 216 and on the second floor it be 290. Capacity is to be documented in the venue’s management policy and the door staff are to be briefed accordingly to enforce these capacity figures throughout the premises

   

  Promoted events

   

  2)              Ensure that any promoted event, or externally advertised event, has in place a written health and safety event management plan, to include as a minimum a special events risk assessment so taking into consideration all hazards, risks, capacity, persons involved and putting into place adequate controls where necessary. Ensure that the promoter, security organisation and venue DPS or management communicate and co-operate in putting together these plans prior to the event

   

  3)              When it is intended to hold a promoted event or externally advertised event the police and local authority are informed of the detail including type of event and details of external promoter and dj’s no later that 14 days prior to the event being held.

  4)              When holding an externally promoted event the DPS or premises licence holder must have complete control over ticket sales so that ticket availability both in advance and on the door do not exceed capacity

   

  5)              the SIA registered door staff be modified to as follows:

   

  2 SIA for the first 100 patrons

  1 SIA for the next 50 patrons

  1 SIA for the next 50 patrons

  1 SIA for the next 50 patrons

  1 SIA for the next 50 patrons

  1 SIA for the next 50 patrons

  1 SIA for the next 50 patrons

   

  To a total of 8 SIA staff for the capacity of the venue

   

  Dispersal Policy

   

  6)              The premises has and operates a written dispersal policy that is operated   at the close of all events held at the premises. This policy will cover   supervision of persons leaving the event, supervision by SIA security personnel of the exit and the immediate area outside the premises to prevent and deter disorder, encourage the dispersal of large crowds away from the venue and prevent obstruction of the public areas immediately outside the venue. For the avoidance of doubt immediately outside the premises is to mean the area of college street between the junction of gold street and the junction of St Katherine’s street

   

  7)              The premises has installed handrails in the emergency stairwells where lacking no later than 3 months from receipt of the decision notice

   

• Northamptonshire Police a responsible authority has applied for the REVIEW of a Premises Licence under Section 51 of the Licensing Act 2003 in respect of The Academy, 16 - 20 Gold Street, Northampton,  NN1 1RS

   

  The grounds for the review are to secure the Licensing Objectives of Preventing Crime and Disorder, due to an incident at the premises.

   

  Any interested party or responsible authority wishing to make representation must do so in writing to the following address by

  6th November 2015.

   

  The Licensing Department

  Northampton Borough Council

  The Guildhall

  St Giles Square

  Northampton

  NN1 1DE

   

  A copy of the application for the Review of the above Licence is kept by the Licensing Authority at the above address.  The application can be viewed Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm, except Bank Holidays.

   

  It is an offence knowingly or recklessly to a make a false statement in connection with an application.  The maximum fine for which a person is liable on summary conviction for making a false statement is a Level 5 fine (£5,000) on the standard scale.

   

  THIS NOTICE DATED:              27th OCTOBER 2015