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CURRYS PROPERTIES LTD re:The Port Hotel, 53-57 Main Street, Portrush - Application for the Transfer of a Licence
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LICENSING (NORTHERN IRELAND) ORDER 1996
(Article 22 and Schedule 5 paragraphs 1 and 2)
Notice of Application for the Transfer of a Licence
TAKE NOTICE that CURRYS PROPERTIES LTD, company number NI738428 whose registered office address is at 4 Monnaboy Road, Eglinton, Derry, BT47 3AZ (“the Applicant”) intends to apply to Coleraine Magistrates’ Court sitting at Coleraine Courthouse, 46a Mountsandel Road, Coleraine, BT52 1NY at 10.00am on 21st August 2026 for the transfer to it of a licence at present held by Mark Johnston of 42 Ballywillan Road, Portrush, BT56 8JN and Robert Torrens of 68 Castleview Park, Portrush, BT56 8AS for premises situate at The Port Hotel, 53-57 Main Street, Portrush, BT56 8BN being premises of a kind specified in Article 5(1)(c) of the Licensing (Northern Ireland) Order 1996 namely an hotel.
The Applicant is a private limited company, whose directors are Jacqueline Karen Curry and Owen Curry, both of 4 Monnaboy Road, Eglinton, Derry, BT47 3AZ. The said directors, and no other persons, have executive control.
A Protection Order authorising the Applicant to carry on the business under the licence was granted on 29th June 2026 by the Magistrates’ Court sitting at Coleraine for the period of 6 months from the date of the Order.
The Applicant is the owner of the business carried on under the licence.
The Applicant is the owner of the premises.
The Licence will be deposited with the clerk of the petty sessions before or at the hearing of the application.
AND FURTHER TAKE NOTICE that any person owning or residing or carrying on business in premises in the vicinity of the premises for which the transfer of the licence is sought who intends to object to the transfer of the licence must in accordance with paragraph 4 of Schedule 5 to the Licensing Order serve notice of his intention to object upon the applicant and the Clerk of the Petty Sessions not less than one week before the time of the court sitting at which the application is to be heard and the permissible grounds of objection are those specified in Article 22(6) of the Licensing Order.
Dated this 23rd day of July 2026
Signed: Conor Ferguson & Co Solicitors
Solicitors for the Applicant
Office C13, The Business Centre
80-82 Rainey Street, Magherafelt, BT45 5AJ
To: The Clerk of the Petty Sessions, Coleraine Courthouse, 46A Mountsandel Road, Coleraine, BT52 1NY
Copy to:-
(i) The Sub-Divisional Commander of Causeway Coast and Glens Policing District Coleraine PSNI station, 17-19 Lodge Road, Coleraine, BT52 1LY (sub-divisional commander of the police sub-division in which the premises are situated)
(ii) The Sub-Divisional Commander of Derry City and Strabane Policing District, Strand Road PSNI station, 81 Strand Road, Londonderry, BT48 7AA (sub-divisional commander of the police sub-division in which the Applicant is situated)
(iii) Causeway Coast and Glens Borough Council, Cloonavin, 66 Portstewart Road, Coleraine, BT52 1EY (District Council for the district in which the premises are situated)