Tallentire Hall

Tallentire, Cockermouth, CUMBRIA, CA13 0PR

Premises Licence PL0842 from from 25/01/2023 to indefinite

Licence holder(s)

Designated Premises Supervisor

Permitted Activities

• a performance of live music
• any playing of recorded music
• provision of late night refreshment
• the sale by retail of alcohol

Additional Conditions

• LICENSING ACT 2003 MANDATORY CONDITIONS

   

  Mandatory conditions where licence authorises the 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.     The supply of alcohol under the premises licence must be made or authorised by a person who holds a personal licence.

   

  Mandatory Condition where the licence authorises the exhibition of films

   

  (a)               Where a club premises certificate authorises the exhibition of films, the certificate must include a condition requiring the admission of children to the exhibition of any film to be restricted in accordance with this condition.

   

  (b)               Where the film classification body is specified in the certificate, unless subsection (3)(b) applies, admission of children must be restricted in accordance with any recommendations made by that body.

   

  (c)               Where -

   

  (i)                   the film classification body is not specified in the licence; or

   

  (ii)              the relevant licensing authority has notified the premises which holds the certificate that this subsection applies to the film in question, admission of children must be restricted in accordance with any recommendation made by that licensing authority.

   

  (d)               In this section -

   

                              “children” means persons aged under 18; and

   

  “film classification body” means the person or persons designated as the authority under section 4 of the Video Recordings Act 1984 (c.39) (authority to determine suitability of video works for classification).

   

  Mandatory condition where Door Supervisors are provided

   

  Any individual employed on the premises to carry out a security activity must be licensed by the Security Industry Authority.

   

  The Licensing Act 2003 (Mandatory Licensing Conditions) (Amendment) Order 2014

  1.               (1)              The responsible person must 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-

  (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 period 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 in a manner which carries a significant risk of undermining a licensing objective;

  (c)              provision of free or discounted alcohol or any other thing as a prize to encourage or reward the purchase and consumption of alcohol over a period of 24 hours or less in a manner which carries a significant risk of undermining a licensing objective;

  (d)              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;

  (e)              dispensing alcohol directly by one person into the mouth of another (other than where that other person is unable to drink without assistance by reason of disability).

  2.               The responsible person must ensure that free potable water is provided on request to customers where it is reasonably available.

  3.                (1)                The premises licence holder or club premises certificate holder must ensure that an age verification policy is adopted in respect of the premises in relation to the sale or supply of alcohol.

  (2)               The designated premises supervisor in relation to the premises licence must ensure that the supply of alcohol at the premises is carried on in accordance with the age verification policy.

  (3)               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 either-

  (a)              a holographic mark, or

  (b)              an ultraviolet feature.

  4.                The responsible person must 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 been 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: ½ pint;

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

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

  (b)              these measures are displayed in a menu, price list or other printed material which is available to customers on the premises; and

  (c)              where a customer does not in relation to a sale of alcohol specify the quantity of alcohol to be sold, the customer is made aware that these measures are available.

   

  The Licensing Act 2003 (Mandatory Licensing Conditions) Order 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(6);

  (b)               “permitted price” is the price found by applying the formula -

   

  P = D + (D x V)

   

  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)              “valued added tax” means value added tax charged in accordance with the Value Added Tax Act 1994(7).

   

  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 IMPOSED BY LICENSING PANEL ON 30TH SEPTEMBER 2020

  1.              All staff will be fully trained in their responsibilities with regard to the sale of alcohol, and will be retrained every six months, with recorded training records kept for inspection.

   

  2.              CCTV will be use at the premises, it shall be to an appropriate standard as agreed with the Licensing Authority in consultation with the Police.

   

  3.              The CCTV equipment shall be maintained in good working order and continually record when licensable activity takes place and for a period of two hours afterwards.

   

  4.              The premises licence holder shall ensure images from the CCTV are retained for a period of 31 days. This image retention period may be reviewed as appropriate by the Licensing Authority.

   

  5.              The correct time and date will be generated onto both the recording and the real time image screen.

   

  6.              If the CCTV equipment (Including any mobile units in use at the premises) breaks down the Premises Licence Holder shall ensure the designated premises supervisor, or in his/her absence other responsible person, verbally informs the Licensing Authority and the Police as soon as is reasonably practicable. This information shall be contemporaneously recorded in the incident report register and shall include the time, date and means this was done and to whom the information was reported. Equipment failures shall be repaired or replaced as soon as is reasonably practicable and without undue delay. The Licensing Authority and the Police shall be informed when faults are rectified.

   

  7.              The premises Licence holder shall ensure that there are trained members of staff available during licensable hours to be able to reproduce and download CCTV images into a removable format at the request of an authorised officer of the Licensing Authority or a constable.

   

  8.              There shall be clear signage indicating that CCTV equipment is in use and recording at the premises during all trading hours.

   

  9.              The DPS will keep an up to date DPS Authorisation sheet which will show the list of staff members who have been given the authority to sell alcohol on the premises.

   

  8.              An incident record will be kept in a bound book, as will all refusals for the sale of alcohol. These books will be made available to the police and officer from the council on request.

   

  10.              Sufficient staff will be on duty during all events, with a risk assessment carried out in advance of the event. The majority trade will be from the guest house bar and will be to residential customers.

   

  11.              Evening events will be pre booked events with numbers carefully controlled along with those who are invited guests only.

   

  12.              Staff will be trained to be alert to any potential danger to customers and react accordingly. If they are unable to quickly defuse the situation without risk to customer or staff, then they are instructed to call the police. All relevant fire procedures are in place for a premises of this size, and the business has been fully fire risk assessed.

   

  13.              An on -site accident book will be in operation to record any accident/ injury incurred on the premises. This document will be retained for inspection by the business for a period of three years.

   

  14.              The premises are situated in a rural area and so pose little risk to noise pollution, but guests will be reminded by way of a notice at the entrance/ exit door to please leave the premises quietly. As part of the winding down of events, customers will be reminded of their responsibility to leave the premises without causing disturbance to any properties who may be affected.

   

  CONDITIONS AGREED WITH CUMBRIA CONSTABULARY

  1.              Any event of 2 or more days, such as a music festival, to be subject to an event management plan that is presented to the authorities at least 12 weeks before the event for consideration.

   

  2.              The licensee to conduct a risk assessment of all bookings and where appropriate to consider the use of SIA registered door staff.

   

  CONDITIONS AGREED WITH ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH

   

  1.              No Regulated Entertainment, or any live or DJ recorded music will take place on the premises at any time, until an acoustic report, (noise impact assessment), has been submitted, by a registered noise acoustic company. The EHO would then confirm in writing that all required recommendations in the report have been actioned. Once this has been done then live and recorded music, and the permission for Regulated Entertainment will be permitted to take place on site.

   

  2.              It was also agreed during consultation with the EH that the area of the building to be used for licensable activity is to be reduced. The residential properties next to the Courtyard are protected from any noise that may be created from licensable activities.

   

  ADDITIONAL CONDITIONS PUT FORWARD BY THE APPLICANT

   

  1.              The capacity limits for any pre booked event will be 60 for an indoor event, and a maximum of 100 should indoor and outdoor space be used, however a capacity of 200 will be permitted for charity events.

   

  2.              Doors/ windows will be kept closed during performances, (except for access/ egress), from 23:00 hours.

   

  3.              External monitoring of noise levels will be carried out and recorded. Records to be kept for 6 months. This will involve physical noise checks to ensure the entertainment noise is not too loud.

   

  4.              A complaints procedure for dealing with any noise complaints will be made available to the nearby residents, with names and phone numbers supplied of those who the complaint should be addressed to.

   

  5.              As mentioned, a full noise acoustic report will be carried out before any regulated entertainment take place on the premises, and this will be signed off by the EHO prior to regulated entertainment taking place.

   

  6.              All speakers will be positioned as to ensure they are directed away from nearby facing residential properties.

   

  7.              Responsible taxi companies to be put on standby at events to transport guests away from the premises quickly and quietly.

   

  CONDITIONS CONSISTENT WITH OPERATING SCHEDULE

  1.              Only photographic ID is accepted (passport, driving licence, proof of age card with PASS hologram, or military ID). Anyone who appears to be under the age of 25 is challenged to provide ID. If the customer is unable to provide identification then no sale is made. No ID no sale. Challenge 25 POS will be on display in the store. Any staff member who may be under the age of 18 must call a senior staff member to take over the sale and complete the transaction. If it is known that a customer intends to purchase alcohol to provide to minors then that sale will be refused. All refused sales will be recorded in a refusals book, which will be made available for inspection by Police or Licensing Officers of the council on request.

  2.              All children on the premises will be supervised/ accompanied by an adult after 21:00 hours in the bar area.