Social Value Ideas for Portsmouth City Council

Repeated licence breaches

Police and licensing officers reported repeated breaches of alcohol licence conditions across several compliance visits, including missing written authorisation, no personal licence holder on site, fa…

“So, please, Ben Linton from having sorry, Hampshire Police licensing. We received the application to review the premises license from immigration, and…”

Illegal working at premises

Home Office enforcement found an individual working illegally at the premises, with evidence suggesting he had been working there for around six months without right-to-work checks. This creates serio…

“Good afternoon, members. So the purpose of this hearing this afternoon is for the committee to consider and determine a review application submitted b…”

Licence review decision pending

The subcommittee concluded the hearing and retired to deliberate on whether to revoke, suspend, or otherwise modify the premises licence after hearing evidence from the Home Office, police, licensing …

“Chair, I think it's probably sorry. The the acoustics seem terrible today. I would suggest a minimum of forty minutes. Probably more realistically, we…”

Premises licence revoked after illegal working review

The sub-committee revoked the premises licence for Cost Cutters after a Home Office review application based on the employment of an illegal worker and wider non-compliance. This is a regulatory decis…

“In the matter of the licensing act 2003, application for review of a premises license cost cutters 2 To 4 Altrum Road, South Sea. All parties shall r…”

Premises licence granted with reduced hours

The sub-committee approved the premises licence for the store, but limited alcohol sales to midnight rather than the later hours requested. Late night refreshment was allowed until 1:00am. The decisio…

“"the subcommittee determined to grant the proposed application subject to reducing the hours of sale of alcohol to a terminal hour of midnight"”

HMO density and community balance

Several applications for additional HMO capacity were discussed in the context of cumulative impact, with members repeatedly referring to local density thresholds, loss of family housing, parking stre…

“Portsmouth already has one of the highest concentrations of HMOs in the country, which is why the Council introduced citywide planning controls. The p…”

50 Chetwynd Road HMO refused

Members refused the proposal to increase occupancy at 50 Chetwynd Road from four to eight residents in an existing HMO. The committee cited over-intensification, emerging local plan policy, inadequate…

“Speaker 15: The proposal seeks to double the occupancy of the property from four people to eight people. Although the use remains as an HMO, so it doe…”

3 Lawson Road refused

Members refused the intensification of 3 Lawson Road from a six-person to seven-person HMO. After first deciding the proposal did need planning permission, the committee rejected it on the basis of ov…

“Speaker 8: So this is an application submitted as for change of use from an existing HMO in class c four to a seven person, seven bedroom HMO into a g…”

Planning permission approved for HMO conversions

The committee approved at least two HMO-related applications, meaning the associated conversion and internal refurbishment works can proceed. The 46 New Road East application was approved with a condi…

“Thank you. Yeah. So, should we go with the original councelor Vernon Jackson? >> Can I just make sure that we are this deferring about the technicalit…”

Lawful development certificate refused

The committee refused a certificate of lawful development for 8 Cleveland Road, deciding that moving from six to seven HMO occupants would be a material change of use requiring planning permission. Me…

“So the question is, would one extra person result in a material change of use? Significant effect, we don't. Power 6.8% considers parking. The parking…”

Planning delegation overhaul

New national planning regulations will require Portsmouth to amend its constitution and implement a national scheme of delegation from 2026-10-31. Officers also recommended a local triage system for c…

“Speaker 11: Thank you, sir. As I'm sure members are aware, a final draft of new regulations were laid in parliament on the June 2, which are we antici…”