Riverside Café, Totnes – Representation

Email received 6 September 2023

Dear Naomi,

Following discussion of this licencing application at Full Council on Monday 4^th September, please see below the comments of Totnes Town Council:

Councillors were supportive of the idea with the following conditions:

a) Provision of toilet facilities is essential (the only existing facilities are those in the SHDC Steamer Quay Car Park which are not open 24hrs).

b) Opening times must be standardised to other licensed premises.

c) Additional longer opening hours for special occasions should be dealt with by separate application.

d) No off sales should be permitted.

e) The safety in terms of the proximity to the river should be considered with barriers and/or stewarding/security provided (there is a stretch near the café where the riverboat docks which has no barrier/wall/chain at all). Risk there was considered very high due to poor visibility.

Email received 7 September 2023

Dear Naomi,

Thank you for your email and the attachments, particularly the building plan which clearly shows no toilet facilities within the café itself, so this concern raised by the Town Council doesn’t seem to have changed. In terms of objection the following points are of relevance:

Public safety – ability to fall into the river from the open/level surface.

Prevention of Public Nuisance – no toilet facilities in the venue. There are already issues of people using the Longmarsh area for toileting creating a public health problem.