A NEW cocktail bar is set to come to Merthyr Tydfil town centre after having a licence granted.
The application from Casa Nova 007 Ltd for 120-121 High Street was granted by Merthyr Tydfil Council’s licensing committee on Wednesday, December 11.
It will be used as a cocktail bar with music and entertainment and there will be a ground floor and basement events venue which will be used for corporate breakfast seminars, training and private functions.
The licence will allow it to sell alcohol on the premises only from 7am to 1am from Monday to Thursday, from 7am to 2am on Friday and Saturday and from 7am to 12.30am on Sunday.
Late night refreshment can be provided from 11pm to 12.30 from Monday to Thursday, from 11pm to 1.30am on Friday and Saturday and from 11pm to 12am on Sunday.
Opening hours will be 7am to 1am from Monday to Thursday, 7am to 2am on Friday and Saturday and 7am to 12.30am on Sunday.
Recorded and live music can be played and indoor sporting events can be held from 9am to 12.30am from Monday to Thursday, from 9am to 1.30am on Friday and Saturday and from 9am to 12am on Sunday.
The licence comes with several conditions around CCTV, the Challenge 25 scheme, door staff, and incident log, signage, a refusals register, staff training and limiting nuisance to residents and people passing by.
The committee noted that the police and trading standards’ conditions had been fully accepted by the applicant to include reduced operating and licensed activity times.
The only matter that needed a decision by the sub-committee was around the representation made by the council’s environmental department concerning noise.
The committee was provided with a copy of the applicant’s noise impact report and this was read by the committee prior to the hearing.
Due to the late submission of this evidence by the applicant, Garin Eldred from the environmental health department was asked to consider its contents and provide the sub committee with his assessment and any representations he wished to make.
The case was adjourned for a period to allow Mr Eldred enough time to examine the report.
When the hearing restarted, he provided the sub-committee with his representations and suggested conditions which he believed if imposed would ensure that as far as possible the premises would not conflict with the licensing principle of “public nuisance.”
After hearing details of the proposed conditions, the sub-committee considered them to be proportionate and suitable and accepted them in full.
There was no contrary view offered by the applicant because they didn’t attend the hearing.
The conditions included that music noise limiters shall be installed in the ground floor and basement areas which meet certain specifications, speakers within all areas shall be mounted to the building structure with resilient acoustic fixings and hangers and all windows and doors shall be closed during amplified events other than for access and egress.
They also included that ventilation provided to the ground and basement areas shall be suitably designed to ensure music and commercial noise does not adversely affect the nearby residents with a fully attenuated mechanical ventilation system required.
Another condition was that a monthly visual check and necessary maintenance (servicing if required) of acoustic rated door and windows will be carried out. A log recording this will kept at the premises and available for inspection on request by an authorised officer.
Another condition was that staff are to pro actively encourage customers to leave the vicinity of the premises not causing any nuisance to neighbours and signs must be displayed inside the premises encouraging them to leave the premises quietly.
Finally construction of the building must meet certain minimum standards.
