Licensing Sub Committee - Thursday 8 January 2026, 6:30pm - Tower Hamlets Council webcasts

Licensing Sub Committee
Thursday, 8th January 2026 at 6:30pm 

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Good evening everybody and congratulations for the large numbers of people who've left your igloos and everything else this evening.
To brave the snow, the hail and everything else that is thrust upon us.
Welcome to 2026 to the first meeting of the London Borough of Town Hamlets Licencing Committee for the year.
My name is Peter Gold's and I'm I chair the licencing committee, which is this evening being held in person
members and key participants
Will be taking part of those amongst you sitting here. The meeting is being filmed for the council website
So there is no need for anybody to try and put your phones up and I do try and respect the integrity of officers
So if I see anybody waving a phone trying to film anything, I shall draw it to their attention
and say please do it because it can be seen on the webcast.
A housekeeping reminder is that we conduct these meetings
as collegiate a fashion as possible.
If, as we get into the main body of the meeting,
anybody wishes to speak, signal me
and I write a little note down and I will call you.
And I will say each time as each report is introduced,
Please if you're speaking and you're speaking with return with reference to the report could you?
Identify which page you're speaking to because I've been through this all today and indeed over the weekend
and
For the life of me if somebody says we are talking about this I
Really?
Need anybody else be expected to be going like this
We're talking of page 277 on your agenda.
Thank you very much.
I'd now like to invite officers and colleagues to introduce themselves.
I've identified myself as Councillor Gold so I don't have to introduce myself again.
Good evening, Chair.
I'm Kathy Driver.
I will be presenting the first item, Chair.
Corinne Holland, licencing officer, I will be presenting the second one.
Simi Yasmin, Democratic Services.
Jonathan Milnek, Legal Advisers to the subcommittee.
Councillor Mina Ali.
Sara Baker -Sultana, Bethnalgan East.
Thank you very much.
You have now met everybody.
I'm formally we have to record apologies for absence
But the quorum of this MIT is three and there are three of us here so there can be no apologies for absence
So as I've said this over Lord knows how many years I will continue to do so
Item number one is decorations of interest to any members have any declarations for the record. I have no
I'm just I'm sorry chair. I'm a wardman counsellor for Bohese, which is on but I don't think that's means anything
I just thought I'd flag that up.
I think that's worth noting, but you have no peculiar interest whatsoever.
Could everybody note the rules of procedure which are on the agenda pack?
And I've said the two points that are of real importance.
If you'll be called to speak and we will identify who is speaking.
If you wish to catch my attention signal and I will call you again if it's appropriate.
But please if you are speaking you're you're referring to the documentation. Tell me what page we're on to
Members can we can we note and agree the minutes of the meeting held on the 13th of November 2025 noted
Simi we've noted and agreed the members and I'll sign them after the meeting I
I would like and I gather everybody who's come this evening understands what I'm about to do
We've got a meeting brought forward to us and it's legally what is known as below the line because it
concerns some confidential matters, so
with
Everybody's consent here. I understand which has been given my colleagues and I have agreed that we will
Listen to this we will listen to item
4 .3 first and I suspect we were disposed of it fairly quickly
And then we can invite everybody back into the room and have the public hearing for the
other two applications.
So apart from everybody involved in 4 .3, may I ask everybody else to leave and sit and
look at our lobby for any of it you haven't discovered before.
Thank you very much.
you
We formally
Excluded present public we now come to application for a view of the premises licence with castle and goodsman style
44 commercial Road London e1 1lm which is agenda 4 .3 and supplemental agendas 1 & 3
which I have in my hand and the notes of the me and the formal notes of the meeting of the 18th of
December