Lancaster City CouncilMorecambe Town Hall

Euston Express

89 Euston Road, Morecambe, Lancashire, LA4 5JY

Completed application 060440 which is a New Application for Premises Licence from 02/09/2025 to indefinite

Applicant(s)

Designated Premises Supervisor

Permitted Activities

• the supply of alcohol

Additional Conditions

• Mandatory Conditions where the licence authorises the sale of alcohol

   

  1              No supply of alcohol may be made under the premise licence -

   

  (a) at a time when there is no designated premise supervisor in respect of the    licence , or

   

  (b) at a time when the designated premise supervisor does not hold a personal licence, or his licence has been suspended.

   

    2                             The supply of alcohol under a premises licence must be made or authorised by a      

                person who holds a personal licence

   

  Irresponsible Drinks Promotions - Mandatory Conditions

   

  3.                            (1)              The responsible person must ensure that staff on relevant premises do not carry out, arrange or participate in any irresponsible promotions in relation to the premises.

   

                              (2)              In this paragraph, an irresponsible promotion means any one or more of the following activities, or substantially similar activities, carried on for the purpose of encouraging the sale or supply of alcohol for consumption on the premises-

   

                              (a)              games or other activities which require or encourage, or are designed to require or encourage, individuals to-

   

                              (i)              drink a quantity of alcohol within a time limit (other than to drink alcohol sold or supplied on the premises before the cessation of the period in which the responsible person is authorised to sell or supply alcohol), or

   

                              (ii)              drink as much alcohol as possible (whether within a time limit or otherwise);

   

                              (b)              provision of unlimited or unspecified quantities of alcohol free or for a fixed or discounted fee to the public or to a group defined by a particular characteristic in a manner which carries a significant risk of undermining a licensing objective;

   

                              (c)              provision of free or discounted alcohol or any other thing as a prize to encourage or reward the purchase and consumption of alcohol over a period of 24 hours or less in a manner which carries a significant risk of undermining a licensing objective;

   

               (d)   selling or supplying alcohol in association with promotional posters or flyers on, or in the vicinity of, the premises which can reasonably be considered to condone, encourage or glamorise anti-social behaviour or to refer to the effects of drunkenness in any favourable manner;

   

                              (e)  dispensing alcohol directly by one person into the mouth of another (other    than where that other person is unable to drink without assistance by reason of disability).

      

  4.                            The responsible person must ensure that free potable water is provided on request to customers               where it is reasonably available.

   

  Age Verification Policy - Mandatory Condition

   

  5.                            (1)              The premises licence holder or club premises certificate holder must ensure that an age verification policy is adopted in respect of the premises in relation to the sale or supply of alcohol.

   

                       (2)  The designated premises supervisor in relation to the premises licence must ensure that the supply of alcohol at the premises is carried on in accordance with the age verification policy.

   

                              (3)              The policy must require individuals who appear to the responsible person to be under 18 years of age (or such older age as may be specified in the policy) to produce on request, before being served alcohol, identification bearing their photograph, date of birth and either -

   

  (a)              a holographic mark, or

  (b)              an ultraviolet feature.

   

   

  Availability of different Measures - Mandatory Condition

   

  6.                            The responsible person must ensure that:

   

                              (a)              where any of the following alcoholic drinks is sold or supplied for consumption on the premises (other than alcoholic drinks sold or supplied having been made up in advance ready for sale or supply in a securely closed container) it is available to customers in the following measures -

   

                              (i)              beer or cider: ½ pint;

                              (ii)              gin, rum, vodka or whisky: 25 ml or 35 ml; and

                              (iii)              still wine in a glass: 125 ml;

   

                              (b)              these measures are displayed in a menu, price list or other printed material which is available to customers on the premises; and

   

                                   (c)    where a customer does not in relation to a sale of alcohol specify the quantity of alcohol to be sold, the customer is made aware that these measures are available.

   

  Alcohol Pricing

  7.              A relevant person shall ensure that no alcohol is sold or supplied for consumption on or off the premises               for a price which is less than the permitted price.

  8.              For the purpose of the condition set out in paragraph 1-

   

  (a)              “duty” is to be construed in accordance with the Alcohol Liquor duties Act (1979)

  (b)              “permitted price” is the price found by applying the formula -

   

  P=D + (DxV)

                Where-

   

  (i)              P is the permitted price

  (ii)              D is the rate of duty chargeable in relation to the alcohol as if the duty were charged on the date of the sale or supply of the alcohol, and

  (iii)              V is the rate of value added tax chargeable in relation to the alcohol as if the value added tax were charged on the date of the sale or supply of the alcohol;

   

  (c)              “relevant person” means, in relation to premises in respect of which there is in force a premise licence -

   

  (i)              The holder of the premise licence

  (ii)              The designated premise supervisor (if any) in respect of such a licence, or

  (iii)              The personal licence holder who makes or authorises a supply of alcohol under such a licence.   

   

  (d)              “relevant person” means, in relation to premises in respect of which there is in force a club premises certificate, any member or officer of the club present on the premises in a capacity which enables the member or officer to prevent the supply in question: and

   

  (e)              “value added tax” means value added tax charged in accordance with the Value Added Tax Act 199

  Where the permitted price given by Paragraph (b) of paragraph 2 would (apart from this paragraph) not be a whole number of pennies, the price given by that sub-paragraph shall be taken to be the price actually given by that sub-paragraph rounded up to the nearest penny.

                (1) Sub-paragraph (2) applies where the permitted price given by Paragraph (b) of paragraph (2) on a day (“the first day”) would be different from the permitted price on the next day (“the second day”) as a result of a change to the rate of duty or value added tax.

   

                (2) The permitted price which would apply on the first day applies to sales or supplies of alcohol which               take place before the expiry of the period of 14 days beginning on the second day

   

   

   

• Conditions  Inline with Operating Schedule

   

  General

  1. All staff who sell alcohol or supply alcohol to customers will have licencing training.

  2. Alcohol training will take place within six weeks of employment.

  3. Refresher training will take place every year or earlier if there is a change in the legislation.

  4. Any new employees will be supervised until training has taken place.

  5. All staff will have individual training records that detail the date and nature of training.

  6. All training will be documented and will be made available to the responsible authorities on demand along with the

  content of the training.

  7. Staff will be trained in relation to conflict management and the protection of children from harm. Refresher training shall

  be given every 12 months. Training records will be made available for inspection upon request by police or other

  responsible authority.

   

  The prevention of crime and disorder

  8. CCTV will be provided in the form of a recordable system, capable of providing pictures of evidential quality in all lighting

  conditions

  9. Cameras shall encompass all ingress and egress to the premises, fire exits and all areas where the sale and supply of

  alcohol occurs.

  10. Equipment must be maintained in good working order, be correctly time and date stamped, recordings MUST be kept

  on the hard drive and kept for a period of 31 days and handed to Police upon reasonable request.

  11. The premises licence holder must ensure at all times a DPS or appointed member of staff is capable and competent at

  downloading CCTV footage in a recordable format to the Police and Local Authority upon reasonable request.

  12. An Incident log shall be kept at the premises, and made available on request to a police officer, police licensing officer or

  council authorised licensing officer. It must be completed within 24 hours of the incident and will record the following:

  • All crimes reported at the venue.

  • All ejections of patrons

  • Any complaints received concerning crime and disorder.

  • Any incident of disorder

  • All seizure of drugs or offensive weapons

  • Any faults in the CCTV system, searching equipment or scanning equipment.

  • Any refusal of the sale of alcohol

  • Any visit by a relevant authority or emergency service

  • Each entry is to be checked and signed by the DPS/Licensee no later than 1 week after the entry has been made. The

  register must be made available to Police, Police Licensing Officers and authorised officers from the Local Authority either

  electronically or hard copy.

   

  Public safety

  13. The Licensee shall ensure that appropriate fire safety procedures are in place.

  14. The Licensee shall ensure that all fire escapes/escape routes will be clearly marked and kept free from obstructions at all

  times.

   

  The prevention of public nuisance

  . Management will ensure that all customers move away from the premises after leaving the property and do not loiter in the area.

   

  The protection of children from harm

  16. Prominently advertise the scheme in your premises so that customers are aware, display proof of age signs at the point

  of sale. These can be downloaded for printing at http://www.challenge25.org/downloads.html.

  17. Keep a refusals book on the premises and ensure it is completed whenever a sale is refused to a person who cannot

  prove they are over the age of 18 years.

  18. The date should contact the date, time of the incident, a description of the customer, the name of the staff member

  who refused the sale and the reason the sale was refused.

  19. The book should be made available to police and authorised council officer on request.

   

  20. A ‘challenge 25’ scheme serves as a reminder to staff of the need to be vigilant in preventing underage sales and to

  customers that it is against the law for anyone under 18 to purchase alcohol. A useful website is http://www.challenge25.

  org/

  21. Only accept photographic driving licence, passports or PASS (proof of age standards scheme) cars approved as means of

  ID. If you accept other forms of ID such as EU national ID cards, these must bear a photograph, DOB, and holographic mark

   

  Police Offered Conditions

  There will be no single can sales of alcohol sold to the public from this premises. Police will work with the premises to share any information necessary to prevent Crime and Disorder.’