Item 4.7 - Tenpin Application - LSO Report
West Dunbartonshire Council · 4 March 2025
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Licensing Standards Officers Report LICENSING (SCOTLAND) ACT 2005 PREMISES LICENCE VARIATION APPLICATION PREMISES: WDLBPREM/320 Tenpin, Units 13-17, Britannia Way, Clyde Shopping Centre Clydebank G81 2RZ. PREMISES LICENCE HOLDER: Georgica Limited. The Licensing Standards Officer makes the following comments: 1. Overprovision This application may be contrary to the Licensing Board’s Statement of Licensing Policy; namely Part 4: - Overprovision. For the Boards information these premises are located within IZ02. 2. Licensed Hours The Licensed Hours sought in this application (10 am Monday to Sunday) are contrary to the Licensing Board’s Statement of Licensing Policy; specifically Paragraph 35.1 Early Opening: Where any on-sales type premises wish to open before 11 a.m., the applicant will be required to justify the need for early opening. The applicant will be expected to demonstrate that sufficient measures will be in place to promote the licensing objectives. The Licensing Board – notwithstanding that each application will be considered on its own merits – is of the view that it will be difficult for an applicant to justify a commencement hour prior to 11am outwith the context set out in paragraph 32.3. 3. Children’s Access In the Operating Plan submitted in support of this application it is stated that Children’s access to the premises will be as follows (Q6b); Children and Young Persons are allowed access to all public areas during all opening hours. Children must be accompanied by an adult after 9pm. The Licensing Standards Officer having regard to the Management Plan notes that it is the licence holder’s intention to have a restricted area within the premises to which Children and Young Persons will not have access. It is therefore suggested that the Licensing Board considers whether the wording proposed remains appropraite. As detailed in Section 4 below, the Licensing Standards Officer seeks that the Licensing Board’s Standard Conditions for on–sale premises be applied to this licence.
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The Licensing Standards Officer notes that the Premises Licence Holder intends to have Category D Gaming Machines within the premises which will be located within the areas to which Children and Young Persons will have access to, therefore the Licence Holder will require to address the Board as to condition 3 which states; 3. No gaming and/or amusements with prizes machines are to be located in the part or parts of the licensed premises where children and young people are permitted. 4. Conditions I recommend that the following conditions be applied to the licence: Part A – Children and Young Persons Access The holder of the premises licence must make sure that:- 1. Children are supervised at all times by an appropriate adult while on the licensed premises. 2. Children and Young Persons will only be permitted into licensed premises where the primary purpose of allowing them access is to consume a meal or attend a private pre-booked function [or insert reason]. 3. No gaming and/or amusements with prizes machines are to be located in the part or parts of the licensed premises where children and young people are permitted. 4. In the case of events which are to be held exclusively for children, or children and young persons, such as a discotheque, adequate supervision and stewarding arrangements should be in place in relation to children attending the event. 5. Where televisions or video machines are intended to be used in areas where children are permitted, the programmes or video films must be of a type suitable for family and children’s viewing. 6. Toilets should be of a suitable type and standard for children. 7. When meals are sold within licensed premises, a children’s menu shall be available or the menu should clearly state that children portions are available. This would not be satisfied by the provision of for example soft drinks and snacks but would require to be of the plated food variety in addition to any
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form of sandwiches etc, which may be available. 8. Electrical sockets within the part of parts of the premises to which children have access should, when not in use, have plug caps thereon. 9. Where open fires or electrical or gas fires or radiators are within part or parts of the premises to which children have access, it is expected that such fires and radiators etc. will be securely guarded. Licensing Standards Officer Date: 13 February 2025. Contact: Peter Clyde, Licensing Standards Officer, Regulatory and Regeneration Services, Council Offices, 16 Church Street, Dumbarton. G81 1TG. E-mail: peter.clyde@west-dunbarton.gov.uk