Agenda and minutes
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Declarations of Interest Any Member with a Disclosable Pecuniary Interest or an Affected Interest in a matter should withdraw from the meeting when the matter is under consideration and should notify the Democratic Services Officer in attendance that they are withdrawing as they have such an interest. If the Interest is not entered on the register of Members interests the Monitoring Officer must be notified of the interest within 28 days. Minutes: There were no declarations of interest. |
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The Procedure for Hearings at Licensing Panels Additional documents: Minutes: The Chairman confirmed that all parties understood the procedure to be followed for the hearing. |
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Application for a Temporary Event Notice Annex A: Annex B: Annex C: Annex D: Additional documents:
Minutes: Licensing Panel Decision Notice:Application for a Temporary Event Notice for Varkala Festival on 12, 13 & 14 August 2016, at Park View Park, off Old Wokingham Road, Bracknell
The Panel’s decision was that the application for a Temporary Event Notice (TEN) be refused on the grounds that there would be an adverse impact on the Licensing objective: ‘Prevention of Public Nuisance’ and specifically noise nuisance.
The Panel carefully considered all the information presented, both written and oral, from:
together with reference to the Licensing Objective: Prevention of Public Nuisance, particularly noise nuisance, the Council’s own Licensing Policy and the Secretary of State’s guidance.
The Panel noted that none of the other responsible authorities had made representations.
At the conclusion of the licensing panel, having heard from participants present, the participants and the applicant confirmed that they had been given the opportunity to say all they wished to say.
The Panel noted the concerns of the Environmental Health Officer, which included that the proposed site for the festival was in close proximity to residential accommodation. When a similar event took place on this site in 2012, there were numerous complaints from the surrounding area. The site could be used for weddings but this was with the explicit understanding that organisers would reduce the noise from music from 23.00 and that there should be no noise emanating from the site after 01.00hrs.
The Environmental Health Officer expressed concern about the impact that the proposed three day music festival may have on local residents. This needed to be balanced against the benefits that the festival would bring, however in her opinion the adverse impact on residents from noise nuisance, outweighed the benefits of the festival. She expressed concern that there was no information in the TEN on expected noise levels and no noise modelling had been undertaken. Expected noise levels had been based on past experience of similar events.
The Panel noted the further concerns of the Environmental Health Officer around the type of music which was likely to include Techno, House and base beats, this would be particularly audible and was unacceptable after 23.00hrs on this site given the proximity of residents. She stated that offering residents ear plugs was not an acceptable solution.
The Environmental Health Officer stated that the duration of the event was also a concern, as residents would be exposed to the noise over a three day period, both in the day and night time. In addition, she did not believe that the applicant had ensured that robust noise management arrangements had been put into place.
In summary the concerns of the Environmental Health Officer were: - duration of the event in terms of the number of hours that residents would have to endure the noise - inadequate management procedures generally and specifically in relation to noise. - excessive noise levels - expected significant level of ... view the full minutes text for item 9. |