TESCO STORES, Belfast, Notice of Application for grant of licence

LICENSING (NORTHERN IRELAND) ORDER 1996 (Articles 2, 5 (1)(b), 7, 9 and Schedule 1)

Notice of Application for grant of licence for premises in which the business carried on under the licence is the business of selling intoxicating liquor by retail for consumption off the premises

IN THE COUNTY COURT FOR NORTHERN IRELAND NORTH EASTERN ADMINISTRATIVE COURT DIVISION

SITTING AT LAGANSIDE

TAKE NOTICE that we TESCO STORES LIMITED (company number 00519500) whose registered office address is Tesco House, Shire Park, Kestrel Way, Welwyn Garden City, United Kingdom, AL7 1GA intend to apply to the County Court sitting at Laganside Courthouse, Oxford Street, Belfast, BT1 3LL for the above Division commencing at 10.30 o’clock in the forenoon on the 8th day of September 2025 for the grant of a licence for the premises situated at Unit A, 142 Doagh Road, Newtownabbey, BT36 6BA being such premises as are specified in Article 5(1)(b) of the Licensing (Northern Ireland) Order 1996 namely premises in which the applicant intends to carry on the business of selling intoxicating liquor for consumption off the premises.

AND TAKE NOTICE that this application will be dealt with by the Court on either the 10th or 11th day of September 2025 commencing at 10.30 am.

The owner of such business will be Tesco Stores Limited (company number 00519500) a body corporate whose Directors are Ashwin Prasad, Kay Elizabeth Majid, Ken Murphy and Imran Nawaz and whose Company Secretary is Christopher Jon Taylor.

The owner of the premises is Harold Mitchell Investments Limited (company number NI693898) whose registered office address is Suite 2.06, Custom House, Custom House Square, Belfast, Northern Ireland, BT1 3ET.

A plan of the premises delineating the part or parts thereof in which intoxicating liquor is to be sold is attached to this notice in accordance with Schedule 1 to the Licensing (Northern Ireland) Order 1996 and Rule 6 of Order 48 of the County Court Rules (Northern Ireland) 1981.

There is in force planning permission to use the premises as premises of the kind specified in this notice for the period during which the licence would be in force.

A subsisting licence as defined in Schedule 2 of the Licensing (Northern Ireland) Order 1996 for premises such as are specified in Article 5(1)(b) situated at Unit A, 142 Doagh Road, Newtownabbey shall be surrendered to the Court.

FURTHER TAKE NOTICE that any person owning or residing or carrying on business in premises in the vicinity of the premises for which the licence is sought who intends to object to the grant of the licence must in accordance with paragraph 6 of Schedule 1 to the Licensing (Northern Ireland) Order 1996 serve notice of his/her intention to object upon the applicant and the Chief Clerk not less than one week before the 8th day of September 2025 being the time of the opening of the Court sittings.

AND FURTHER TAKE NOTICE that the permissible grounds of objection are such as are specified in Article 7(4)(a) to (e)(i) of the Licensing Order, namely, that the procedure relating to the application has not been complied with; that the applicant is not a fit person to hold a licence; that the applicant is not aware of the responsibilities under any code of practice which the Department has approved under Article 76F (and from which it has not withdrawn its approval); that the premises are not premises of the kind specified in the application; that the premises are not suitable to be licensed for the sale of intoxicating liquor by retail; and that the number of licensed premises of the kind specified in the application in the vicinity of the premises is or will be adequate.

Dated this 15th day of August 2025

Signed: Shean Dickson Merrick, Solicitors for the Applicant, 38-42 Hill Street, Belfast, BT1 2LB

To: The Chief Clerk, Laganside Courthouse, Oxford Street, Belfast, BT1 3LL.

Copy to:

(i) The Clerk of Petty Sessions, Laganside Courthouse, Oxford Street, Belfast, BT1 3LL (being the Petty Sessions District in which the premises are situated);

(ii) The Sub-Divisional Commander, Newtownabbey PSNI Station, 418 Shore Road, Newtownabbey, BT37 9RT (being the Sub Divisional Commander of the police sub-division in which the premises are situated);

(iii) The Sub-Divisional Commander, Hatfield Police Station, Comet Way, Hatfield, Hertfordshire, AL10 9SJ (being the Sub-Divisional Commander of the police sub-division in which the applicant has its registered office); and

(iv) The Clerk of the Council, Antrim and Newtownabbey Borough Council, Mossley Mill, Newtownabbey, BT36 5QA (being the district council for the district in which the premises are situated).