Issue - meetings

Members of the Statutory Licensing Sub Committee of the Council’s Statutory Licensing Committee were asked to consider an application for grant of a premises licence under the Licensing Act 2003 for McDonald's Restaurant – Yarm Road Stockton-on-Tees TS18 3RU to which there had been representations from residents.

The application was for the late night refreshment:

• Monday to Sunday 23:00 – 00:00

A copy of the full application details and the proposed plan was included the officers main report.

In terms of responsible authorities, licensing conditions had been agreed during the consultation process between the applicant, Cleveland Police and Environmental Health

Representations had been received from local residents, full details of which were contained within the report.

Mark Gallant on behalf of McDonald’s and legal representative Richard Wormald were in attendance and were given the opportunity to make representation.

A resident who had made representation was also in attendance and given the opportunity to make representation.

The Chair introduced all persons who were present and explained the procedure to be followed during the hearing.

A copy of the report and supporting documents had been provided to Members of the Committee and to all persons that had made representation prior to the meeting.

The Licensing Officer presented the report to the Statutory Licensing Sub-Committee.

Richard Wormald on behalf of the applicant for McDonald’s Restaurant, Stockton on Tees presented the application to the Statutory Licensing Sub-Committee.

The main topics discussed were as follows:

- This was a new McDonalds site and was due to open on 5 November 2025.

- The Sub Committee were informed that the applicant had been employed by McDonalds for many years and had worked his way from the shop floor up.

- The licensing application was to extend the serving of hot food and hot drinks for 1 additional hour from 23:00 hours to 24:00 hours which was within the Councils licensing policy.

- The applicant appreciated resident’s concerns however there was a railway line and mature trees creating a division between the application site and residential properties.

- The applicant had given a lot of thought to licensing policy and in the interest of amenity a decision was made for the operational hours to be between 06:00 hours and 24:00 hours.

- There was to be a fence constructed to the rear of the site and lights on the site would be shielded and monitored to ensure minimal, if any, impact on neighbouring residents as well as a traffic management plan, all of which had been considered by the Planning Committee in October 2024.

- Brief discussion was had relating to public nuisance. Environmental Health had proposed conditions which had addressed residents’ concerns and there had been no objections by Cleveland Police.

- A brief explanation was given of how a new McDonald’s franchise was generally set up.

- The franchisee successfully ran 5 other McDonald’s locally, had invested in the new restaurant, had knowledge of the local area and had a commercial desire to make  ...  view the full minutes text for item 19