Appendix C.1

From: Redacted <Redacted>
Sent: 16 December 2021 11:08
To: EHL Safety <EHL.Safety@brighton-hove.gov.uk>
Subject: Representation to licensing application 1445/3/2021/04145/LAPREN

EG CON ENDS 30.12.21 VALID PPN (B)

Hello

I have many concerns about this application I would like addressing. We are working with the community and police around anti-social behaviour all of which is documented. Selling alcohol on premises local to Norfolk square only encourages this behaviour. People will only be encouraged to buy late night food and alcohol to sit in the park, especially during summer months impacting hundreds of people who live and work in the square.

As you know as a community, they have really worked hard to turn the gardens around and move away from the party park to a community area where children can play safely. We do not need anymore late night drinking establishments impacting residents.

Please acknowledge receipt of my complaint and email and help us to continue making the square safe and a community base.

I look forward to hearing from you.

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From: Redacted <Redacted>
Sent: 15 December 2021 19:53
To: EHL Safety <EHL.Safety@brighton-hove.gov.uk>
Subject: Representation to licensing application 1445/3/2021/04145/LAPREN

EG CON ENDS 30.12.21 VALID PCD & PPN (A)

I’d like to raise some concerns about the application reference above, for the premises at 109a to 110 Western Road, on the North East corner of Norfolk Square.

I live on Redacted and frequent Norfolk Square as a local resident and am deeply concerned at yet another alcohol selling premise in this area.

F=I have lived here for over Redacted and for many years there have been on-going problems with street drinkers and drug addicts and dealers dominating the square putting it out of bounds for many residents. The noise, the crime the filth of the discarded drug paraphernalia and human excrement has made Norfolk Square one of the worst in Brighton. As a lone woman I have had avoided this square completely because of these problems as if felt unsafe for me to use this square even just to walk through.

Over the past for years local people have worked with police and BHCC to improve this and it has been working. Now bringing in another licensed premise could undermine all of this hard work.

I had believe that Norfolk Square fell under the Cumulative Impact Zone for licensing, and has open Problem Profiles with the police and the council safer communities team due to the alcohol-related violent crime and anti-social behaviour.

I would ask you to reject this application.

Regards

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From: Redacted <Redacted>
Sent: 16 December 2021 15:09
To: Emma Grant <Emma.Grant@brighton-hove.gov.uk>
Cc: EHL Safety <EHL.Safety@brighton-hove.gov.uk>
Subject: Re: FW: Representation to licensing application 1445/3/2021/04145/LAPREN

EG CON ENDS 30.12.21 VALID PCD, PPN & CIZ (C)

Representation to licensing application 1445/3/2021/04145/LAPREN

Premises of licence applied for – the old “Cubitt and West” estate agent offices at 109a - 110 Western Road, Brighton, BN1 2AA.

My name and address:

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Dear Sir or Madam

I’d like to raise some concerns about the application referenced above, for the premises at 109a to 110 Western Road, on the North East corner of Norfolk Square.

I am a private resident who has lived on the Redacted of the square for seven years – I also use my residence as an office when working from home.

As background, for years the residents and local businesses on and around Norfolk Square have suffered from large amounts of crime and anti-social behaviour. Much of this is fuelled by alcohol – in the past few years we’ve seen several mass brawls of drunk people, with the general public (including families using the gardens at the time) in danger of thrown missiles and thrown punches. Regular "problem drinker" groups have congregated in the square to drink alcohol all day - shouting, using the gardens as toilets, and vandalising public and private property. The presence of the regular drinkers attracts drug addicts and dealers.

The residents also have to suffer more innocent but still disruptive late night groups leaving licensed premises who continue their party in Norfolk Square itself, often long into the early hours of the morning. This keeps hundreds of people awake (and is especially a problem in the summer, when people like to sleep with their windows open).

Local residents, businesses, the council and the police have worked together to limit the crime and anti-social behaviour, and it does feel like we’ve recently made some progress. Nevertheless Norfolk Square is within the council Cumulative Impact Zone for licensing, and has open Problem Profiles with the police and the council safer communities team due to the alcohol-related violent crime and anti-social behaviour.

With reference to the application itself, I welcome the arrival of another restaurant, and I look forward to having a meal there when they open. I am however concerned with two aspects of the alcohol licence application:

1) The application appears to be for selling alcohol for on-premises consumption until midnight. The premises are right by one of the main entrances to the square. My concern is that this will encourage people to have late night boozy meals (possibly after they’ve already consumed considerable amounts at the pub), and they will then leave the premises and pass through noisily, or sit in the square continuing their party, to the detriment of the residents. We already lose sleep to late night revellers several times a week during the summer.

2) The planning application drawings (which I believe are what is referenced in the licence application) show more of a late night takeaway than a sit-down restaurant, with a large takeaway service counter, small tables and high density bar-style seating around the windows. None of the features support the idea of table service - for instance there is no clear way for waiting staff to move between kitchen and tables - see attached image taken from planning documents. This is in contrast to the description in the licence application of a restaurant serving alcohol with table meals. If this will be a late night takeaway, the type of customers it attracts are much more likely to depart drunk and noisy and cause disruption late at night.

I request that the licence application is declined, or limited to selling alcohol for consumption on the premises with a table service meal up until 2200 every evening – this seems reasonable and would allow for patrons to have drinks with a late supper, without running the danger of providing more alcohol to people who are already intoxicated and who would go on to disturb the residents when they leave.

Many thanks for your time,

Yours faithfully,

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From: Redacted <Redacted>
Sent: 30 December 2021 17:40
To: EHL Safety <EHL.Safety@brighton-hove.gov.uk>
Subject: 109A - 110 western road. Brighton BN1 2AA. 1445/3/2021/0414

EG CON ENDS 30.12.21 VALID PPN, PCH, PCD, PS, CIZ (D)

Dear EHL Safety

We wish to lodge an objection to the granting of the licence for the above premises for sale and supply of alcohol in a pizza restaurant between the hours of 11.00 a.m and 12 midnight Monday to Saturday, and until 11.30 pm on Sundays.

This application is in the CUMLATIVE IMPACT ZONE and as such, an application like this is not acceptable on the listed grounds. These premises, formerly an estate agents are on the south east corner of the junction of Western Road and Norfolk Square. The Square itself is surrounded by streets of residential properties, to the north and east and west.

Historically over the years the police, the local communities and Council institutions have worked extensively to create in Norfolk Square a safe, friendly, welcoming Open Space, and to an extent this has been achieved with its seats, and grass and planting and regular caring activities. Such an area would attract smokers from the premises who could abuse all of this tremendous amenity in one of the most densely populated areas in Brighton and Hove. Such activity would negate years of hard work, and change the nature of this important Open Space.

1. Prevention of crime and disorder

2. Public safety

3. Protection of public nuisance

4. Protection of Children from harm

The granting of such a licence would lead to negations of each of the above, achieved after much hard work. In addition the Health and Safety of the residents would be compromised, including children.

Lansdowne Area Residents’ Association, LARA , adjoins the CIZ and is in the Special Stress Area, SSA and has worked hard to ensure that the interests of the Residents of Brunswick Town Conservation Area are fully considered.

Yours faithfully

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