This meeting was scheduled to consider an application for a new premises licence for City Sports & Cocktail Bar Ltd, 20/21 Menai Centre, Bangor, Gwynedd LL57 1DN.

Application for a Premises Licence – City Sports & Cocktail Bar Ltd, 20/21 Menai Centre, Bangor, Gwynedd LL57 1DN

The Central Licensing Sub Committee was scheduled to consider an application for a new premises licence for a sports bar and cocktail bar in Bangor. The application requested permission for:

• Plays indoors and outdoors
• Films indoors
• Indoor Sporting Events
• Boxing and Wrestling Entertainment both indoors and outdoors
• Live music indoors and outdoors
• Recorded music Indoors and Outdoors
• Performance of Dance Indoors
• Late Night Refreshments Indoors and Outdoors
• Supply of Alcohol Both On and Off the Premises

The applicant proposed a number of measures to promote the licensing objectives, these included:

• Installing CCTV
• Staff training
• Employing SIA registered door staff
• Bodycams for staff
• Keeping the venue clean and hygienic
• Training staff in Ask for Angela
• Limiting noise levels
• Operating a Challenge 25 policy

Objections to the application were received from:

• A member of the public
• Gwynedd Council Environmental Health
• North Wales Police

The main concerns related to:

• Noise pollution from music
• Potential for antisocial behaviour
• Safety of the public

North Wales Police expressed concern about the application to permit the sale of alcohol until 04:00, noting that:

after 4am the police have fewer resources.

After discussions with North Wales Police, the applicant offered to stop selling alcohol at 03:30. The committee report recommended that the committee accept this compromise.

The committee report recommended that the sub-committee consider all of the concerns raised and that if the licence were to be approved, appropriate conditions and noise mitigation measures should be attached to the licence.