This Licensing Sub-Committee B meeting was scheduled to consider an objection to Calabash Restaurant and Bar’s application to extend their opening hours over the festive period, following complaints from residents about noise. The Committee was also scheduled to note a list of Councillors’ memberships as Council appointed representatives on outside bodies, joint committees and school governing bodies.

Temporary Event Notices for Calabash Restaurant & Bar

Royal Borough of Greenwich’s Environmental Health Service (Community Protection Team) submitted a notice objecting to the applications to extend the permitted hours at Calabash Restaurant & Bar until 02:00 hours on a number of dates over the festive period.

Three applications, covering different dates, were submitted by Mr Bankole Jones, who is one of the directors for the premises licence holder, Calabash Logistics Limited, and the Designated Premises Supervisor.

The objection notice stated that the Environmental Health Service objected to all three applications, on grounds related to the prevention of public nuisance. The notice refers to incidents of noise nuisance that took place on:

• Sunday 3 November (around 01:21 hours);
• Friday 6 December 2024 (around 22:50 hours); and
• Sunday 8 December 2024 (around 20:00 hours).

The objection notice states that on each of these occasions, Officers from the Community Protection Team attended the premises and witnessed nuisance “in the form of loud amplified music emanating from the premises, at such a level they considered it met the threshold to be a statutory nuisance under the Environmental Protection Act 1990”.

A previous Temporary Event Notice submitted by Mr Jones covering the 6th and 7th of December was also objected to by the Community Protection Team. Because that TEN was submitted late, the objection notice had the effect of immediately cancelling the event.

This objection notice also includes further details of the nature of the complaints made on each of the dates included in the objection, and states that the Notice Giver has been served a section 80 EPA Noise Abatement Notice.

Declarations of Interests

The Committee was scheduled to note the list of Councillors’ memberships as Council appointed representatives on outside bodies, joint committees and school governing bodies.

The report pack includes the Register of Interests.

The register contains a list of positions held by all Greenwich Councillors, including memberships of management committees, school governing bodies and other outside bodies, as of 22 May 2024.