Issue - meetings

The applicant wishes to vary the licence as follows:-

1) To amend the on sales terminal hour to 22.00.

2) To allow children under the age of 5 on the premises.

3) To add outdoor drinking as an activity on the licence.

4) To extend the premises to add an adjoining building to be used as a visitor centre.

Summary Sheet attached – Item 6(d)

Niall MacAllister-Hall appeared on behalf of the applicant and spoke to the terms of the application which sought to extend the on-sales terminal hour to 10.00pm; to allow children under the age of 5 on the premises; to include outdoor drinking as an activity and to extend the premises to add an adjoining building to be used as a visitor centre. Mr MacAllister-Hall advised that the business had been operating for just over a year and involved mainly online sales. Mr MacAllister-Hall explained that a tasting room and a shop was now available therefore tours could be carried out which would finish at 6.00pm and the terminal hour of 10.00pm would cover evening events. He added that customers would have the option to drink in the large garden area.

Eric Dearie, Licensing Standards Officer referred to the external drinking area and the usual terminal hour of 8.00pm for children and young persons and 10.00pm for adluts.

Rory Colville asked Mr MacAllister-Hall if he would be happy to amend the terminal hour for the external area to 8.00pm or 9.00pm.

Mr MacAllister-Hall stated he would be happy with a terminal hour of 9.00pm.

The Chair moved to grant the application as applied for with the amended terminal hour of 9.00pm for the external area.

With no-one else being otherwise minded, this became the decision of the Board.