Annex 1 - Mandatory Conditions
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.
3. (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).
4. The responsible person must ensure that free potable water is provided on request to customers where it is reasonably available.
5. (1) The premises licence 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.
6. 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.
7. Prohibition on Sale of Alcohol below Cost of Duty plus VAT
(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 + (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
(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) (a) Sub-paragraph (b) below 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.
(b) 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.
Exhibition of Films
1. Admission of children to the exhibition of any film is to be restricted in accordance with the recommendations made by the specified film classification body.
2. Where -
(a) the film classification body is not specified in the licence, or
(b) the relevant licensing authority has notified the holder of the licence 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.
3. 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).
Door Supervision
1. Any person(s) required to be on the premises to carry out a security activity must be authorised to carry out that activity by a licence granted under the Private Security Industry Act 2001 or be entitled to carry out that activity by virtue of Section 4 of that Act.
Annex 2 - Conditions consistent with the Operating Schedule
1. Premises to have a night porter on duty when main doors are closed under the control of the reception desk monitored by CCTV.
2. Only hotel residents and their bona fide guests shall have the benefit of all applicable licensable activities 24 hours a day.
3. All alcohol sales to non-residents shall cease at 01:00 hours with the exception of non-standard timings.
4. Residents or guests of hotel will be served from the bar, room service or mini bar.
5. CCTV shall be installed at the premises in the form of a recordable system, capable of providing clear, good quality images in all lighting conditions. Cameras shall encompass all entrances and exits to the premises, any external seating or smoking areas, all areas where the sale, supply or consumption of alcohol occurs and all other areas where licensable activity takes place. Equipment shall be maintained in good working order and checked on a regular basis to ensure it displays the correct time and date. CCTV to monitor reception/dining area and main entrance area. CCTV data to be retained for 31 days.
The system shall record in real time and operate whilst the premises are open to the public. The recordings shall be retained for a period of 31 days and made available to any authorised merpol officer on reasonable request for evidential purposes, in accordance with data protection legislation.
The recording equipment shall be kept in a secure environment under the control of the premises licence holder or other responsible named individual. There shall be sufficient members of trained staff available to be able to download or view CCTV evidence with the minimum of delay at the reasonable request of an authorised merpol licensing officer.
6. There shall be no entry or re-entry to the premises after 02:00, except for residents and their bona fide guests.
7. All bar staff must be fully trained in relation to the prevention of underage sales of alcohol and legislation in respect of serving to customers who are drunk.
8. Staff training must be updated on a regular basis. Records of staff training must be made available for inspection by a merpol licensing authorised officer on request.
9. All incidents of crime and disorder will be recorded in an incident logbook that shall be kept on the premises and made available on reasonable request to any authorised merpol police officer on request for evidential purposes.
10. Alcohol and other drinks may not be removed from the premises in open containers save for consumption in areas provided for that purpose (street café) or in the hotel bedrooms.
11. The requirement for SIA registered Door Supervisors shall be risk assessed and implemented at the discretion of the Premises License Holder or Designated Premises Supervisor. Cognizance should be taken from any requests by Merseyside Police.
12. A door supervisors logbook will be used at the premises on all occasions that SIA door supervisors are employed. All incidents involving doors supervisors will be recorded in the door supervisor logbook. Full details of all door supervisors will be recorded in the logbook, including full name, full SIA badge number, times on and off duty signed by the premises supervisor or their deputy.
13. A fully maintained first aid kit to be at reception.
14. Service of waste contract in consideration of local residents.
15. All children must be under supervision of a parent or guardian.
16. Any suspicious activity relating to adult inter-action with minors will be reported to Merseyside police. ‘Challenge 25’ scheme in place were all staff are trained prior to serving any age restricted products.
17. Staff to be trained in the city council ‘knock back’ scheme. Refusals system in place (till prompt or book) to be monitored by DPS.
18. All windows and external doors shall be kept closed after 2300, except for the immediate access and egress of persons.
19. Speakers shall not be located/operated in entrance lobbies or outside of the premises.
20. Notices shall be prominently displayed at all exits requesting patrons to respect the needs of local residents and leave the area quietly.
21. If the Council receives noise complaints about the premises which are substantiated, then a noise limiting device shall be fitted to all amplification equipment within the premises. The noise limiting device shall be set to a suitable level, in conjunction with the Environmental Health Service, in order to prevent a statutory noise nuisance from occurring.
Annex 3 - Conditions attached after a hearing by the licensing authority
Not applicable
Annex 4 - Plans
See basement plan drawing number (68) A108 revision P7 dated Oct 19, external seatng PL465 revision P2 dated Jan 20 and Ground Floor Plan dated 03 06 2021 deposited with the premises licence application and retained by Licensing and Public Protection.