ANNEX 2 - CONDITIONS CONSISTENT WITH THE OPERATING SCHEDULE
(a) Match Day Operation
1. The ground would be open to customers attending in Lounges in the Main Stand Goodison Road and the Park End Stand from 3 hours before the scheduled kick off time. The exact time varies due to external demands of the Premier League, the television authorities and Merseyside Police but is announced well in advance of any game.
2. Admission to the Lounges is by pre-issued ticket confirming admission to the match and admission to a specified lounge. In order to attend in Blues 100 Suite, the 1878 Suite, Alex Young Suite, Joe Mercer Suite and Dixie Dean Platinum Suite, Captain’s Table and The People’s Club membership can be on a personal or corporate basis and will have been purchased for the season. It is also the case that the 1878 Lounge, the Executive Boxes, the Sponsors Lounges and Sky Box will be utilised by people who have purchased specific sponsorship packages in advance of a particular game. Attendances is monitored by ticket collectors and stewards.
3. Once in attendance in their allocated Lounge they will receive hot refreshments and will be supplied with or will purchase alcoholic and non alcoholic beverages. It will be proposed that children up to 18 can attend in these Lounges with an accompanying adult but will not be served alcohol unless aged 16 or 17 and partaking of a table meal accompanied by an adult.
4. The ground bars (kiosks) are not opened until 90 minutes before the kick off when the remaining gates of the ground are opened and the general public are admitted.
5. These can be utilised by fans who have not brought specific tickets that allow them admission to the lounges and just have general tickets to the game.
6. Kiosks will have at least one operator present and all drinks are dispensed in plastic containers by the staff.
7. Safety stewards man the stairways and as part of their duties they will request that people do not take alcohol drinks in view of the playing area. Notices to this effect are in the premises and well established operation to facilitate this has operated now since the Act came into force.
8. After the match the ground bars simply remain closed to ensure the orderly dispersal of supporters, such process to operate in consultation with Merseyside Police.
9. The utilisation of any bars or lounges during the match day is subject to the nominated Safety Officer and liaison takes place with Merseyside Police to ensure that if it is felt that a particular bar should be closed for any operational reason then it will be closed.
10. In the Lounges/Suites service will be provided both of refreshments alcoholic and non alcoholic beverages for a period of up to 1 hour after the game when service will stop.
11. It may be that these Lounges will be used again in the evening, on occasions of afternoon kick offs, and the Club staff effectively are required to prepare the rooms for the new customers to attend from 7.30pm. The ground at this time reverts to non match day operations.
12. It is the case that other licensable activities may occur on match days in that there may be displays of dance on the pitch as part of pre-match or half time entertainment, similar live and more usually recorded music will be played to the crowd as entertainment and a screen will be present showing footage of the match with replay footage whilst the game is being played although no specific film is generally operated. Formal permission is sought by variation.
(b) Non Match Day Operating Schedule
1. Operating Schedule on non match days, the ground is open on non match days to the public from 6.00am and depending on functions, currently dependent on Special Orders of Exemption, may remain open until 1.00am the following morning in the Park End and midnight in the Main Stand.
2. The Club does hire the facilities out to individuals in the day time and the evening for private events. In the daytime they can hired out, for funerals or for wedding receptions. The Club does have a Certificate under the Marriage Act 1994 to allow the performance of civil ceremonies.
3. On evening functions there will be additional licensable activities being the playing of music, either live music or recorded music played by a DJ or provided as background music by the Club. There will also on occasions be performances of dance and facilities will be made available for dancing.
4. There may be occasions when hot food will be served after 11.00pm although that is generally rare but the Club would seek the facility to provide that service in the event that it is requested by customers.
(c) Crime and Disorder
1. The premises do have external CCTV at the entrances, to the Joe Mercer/Alex Young Lounges and Main Stand reception which are linked up to the reception.
2. The Club does have a number of operatives who are licensed under the Private Security Industry Act. These individuals would operate at late finishing functions.
(d) Public Nuisance
1. Customers are requested when leaving later in the evening to ensure that they cause minimum disturbance and make minimum noise and the Club are looking to putting notices up to emphasise that point if required. The staff are also encouraged to emphasise that point.
(e) Protection of Children from Harm
1. It is a requirement that children who are present in the lounges have a responsible adult with them in any event.
(C) Charity Carol Concert operation
Participants
The participants will be choirs/musicians from local schools and will number about 300.
Areas of sports grounds to be available to the public
The Park Stand or Main Stand only will be used for the audience. Admission through the turnstiles with tickets purchased in advance for reserved seating.
Choir
To take account of possible adverse weather conditions, there will be two locations that can be used for the choir/musicians for their performance. The main location will be the pitch - The Band and choir will be on a 200sq. meter temporary walkway covering on the Pitch (Goal Area and behind the Goal Line) central facing the Park Stand; the alternative location will be the Bullens Road lower visitors area. This area will also be used to accommodate participants when not performing. There are no temporary structures envisaged.
General
Additional speakers will be placed on the track facing into the Park Stand. The performance will be pre-recorded but the Band and various Choirs will play and sing Live.
Lost child station in Park Stand to be appropriately staffed.
EMBEDDED RESTRICTIONS
a) Alcohol shall not be sold or supplied except during permitted hours and on New Year’s Eve, from the end of the permitted hours on New Year’s Eve to the start of the permitted hours on the following day (or, if there are no permitted hours on the following day, until midnight on 31 December)
The above restrictions do not prohibit:
(a) during the first twenty minutes after the above hours, the taking of the alcohol from the premises, unless the alcohol is supplied or taken in an open vessel;
(b) consumption of the alcohol on the premises or the taking of sale or supply of alcohol to any person residing in the licensed premises;
(c) the ordering of alcohol to be consumed off the premises, or the despatch by the vendor of the alcohol so ordered;
(d) the sale of alcohol to a trader or club for the purposes of the trade or club;
(e) the sale or supply of alcohol to any canteen or mess, being a canteen in which the sale or supply of alcohol is carried out under the authority of the Secretary of State or an authorised mess of members of Her Majesty’s naval, military or air forces.
(f) the taking of alcohol from the premises by a person residing there;
(g) the supply of alcohol for consumption on the premises to any private friends of a person residing there who are bona fide entertained by him at his own expense, or the consumption of alcohol by persons so supplied;
(h) the supply of alcohol for consumption on the premises to persons employed there for the purposes of the business carried on by the holder of the licence, or the consumption of alcohol so supplied, if the alcohol is supplied at the expense of their employer or of the person carrying on or in charge of the business on the premises
SPORTING EVENTS (CONTROL OF ALCOHOL ETC,) ACT 1985
1. 3 (1) Where licensed premises or registered clubs are situated within the areas of a designated sports ground -
(a) the permitted hours in those premises for the purposes of Part III of the Licensing Act 1964 (hours during which alcohol may be sold or supplied in the premises or consumed in or taken from the premises) shall not, subject to the provisions of any order under this section I respect of the premises, include any part of the period of any designated sporting event at the designated sports ground, and
(b) section 63(2)(b) of that Act (alcohol ordered for consumption off the premises) shall not be applied for that part of that period.
[(1A) Subsection (1) (a) above has effect subject to section 5A (1) of this Act.]
2. 3 (2) Where licensed premises or registered club premises are so situated, a magistrates court may by order under this section provide -
(a) that the permitted hours in the premises or any part of them shall, during so much of the period of any designated sporting event at the designated sports ground as would (apart from this section) be included in the permitted hours, include such period as may be determined under the order, and
(b) that during the period so determined such conditions as may be specified in the order (including conditions modifying or excluding any such existing conditions of the justice licence or, as the case may be, the registration certificate) shall apply in respect of the sale or supply of alcohol in the premises;
And the justices licence or as the case may be, registration certificate shall have effect accordingly.
3. 3 (4) It shall be a condition of any order under this section that there shall be in attendance at the designated sports ground throughout the period of any designated sporting event a person -
(a) who is responsible for securing compliance with this section, being the holder of the justice licence or a person designated by him, in the case of registered club premises, a person designated by the club, and
(b) written notice of whose name and current address has been given to the chief officer of police.
4. 5D Non retail sales
(1) During the period of a designated sporting event at a designated sports ground, alcohol shall not be sold in the area of the ground except by sale by retail.
SPORTING EVENTS (CONTROL OF ALCOHOL ETC.) ACT 1985 SECTION 3, AND THE SCHEDULE AMENDED BY SCHEDULE 1 PUBLIC ORDER 1986
1. Under the order issued under the above, the permitted hours in the following areas of the designated sports ground (Everton Football Club, Goodison Road), so designated under the Sporting Events (Control of Alcohol etc.) Act 1985 shall be:
The eleven private boxes, the 1878 Suite (formally known as the 1878 Brasserie), the Blues 100 Suite, the Sponsors Lounge, the Players Lounge, kiosks 1A, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 5A, 6, 7, 8, 13, 14, 14A, 15, 15A, 18 and 19.
The Peoples Club (possibly incorrectly refered to on the plan as Legends), the Captain's Table (possibly incorrectly referred to on the plan as the Peoples Club), and in Gwladys Street, Kiosk 12.
Vice Presidents Suite (incorrectly called Vice Presidents Lounge on the plan), Alex Young Suite and Kiosks 20, 21 and 22.
Joe Mercer Suite, Boardroom, Dixie Dean Platinum Suite and Sky Box.
Bullens Road Stand - Kiosks 9, 10, 11
Gwladys Street Stand - Kiosks 16, 17 and 17A
Sponsors Box Main Stand
Main Stand Kiosks 23, 24 and 24A
and described on the plans delivered to the Clerk to the Justices shall during so much of the period of any designated sporting event, be as follows:
1. The two hour period prior to the commencement of the designated sporting event;
2. The 15 minutes before the half time period;
3. The 15 minutes during the half time period;
4. The one hour after the end of the designated sporting event.
There shall be in attendance at the said sporting ground throughout the period of a designated sporting event a person, written notice of whose name and current address should be given to the Chief Officer of Police at St Anne Street, who shall be responsible for the securing compliance with section 3 of the Sporting Events (Control of Alcohol etc.) Act 1985 and who shall be the licence holder or a person designated by the licence holder or a person designated by the club.