The Licensing Panel C of Camden Council is scheduled to meet on 27 November 2025 to discuss procedure rules for remote meetings and a premises licence review for Lebanese Grill Express at 84 Leather Lane. The meeting will be held remotely via Microsoft Teams and broadcast live on the council website.

Here are the topics that are listed on the agenda:

Lebanese Grill Express Licence Review

The panel will consider a report from the Executive Director Investment, Place and Opportunity regarding an application to review the premises licence of Lebanese Grill Express, located at 84 Leather Lane, London, EC1N 7TT.

The supplementary agenda includes links to video and photographic evidence from the applicant and interested parties. This includes:

• Video evidence from the applicant, the Noise and Pollution Team, Environmental Health, Responsible Authority, including:

  • A video showing extract emissions from the premises in June 2025.
  • A video showing smoke and blackened walls from the premises on 16 September 2025.

• Restricted evidence received from the applicant showing staff members in orange tops approaching a car, with one staff member shouting at the driver. These videos have been shared with the premises but must be viewed in private. Written details can be found on page 100 of the main agenda.

• Video evidence from Marcio Rodrigues, Senior Area Monitoring Officer, Environmental Services Team, including a video showing litter outside the premises and in the vicinity at night.

• Videos received from anonymous representations, including videos of youths outside in the estate from a resident's window, youths fighting outside in the estate, and smoke from the Lebanese Grill chimney.

• A video showing a rodent in the corner by the main entrance of Lebanese Grill, taken from a TikTok video.

• A video showing a destroyed rubbish bin with litter on the floor.

The agenda notes that publicity in respect of this item may lead to the disclosure of information relating to an individual or information subject to legal professional privilege¹, and that the public interest in maintaining the exemption outweighs the public interest in disclosing the information.

Guidance on Remote Meetings

The panel will be asked to agree the procedure rules for remote meetings, as detailed in the document titled Guidance on Remote Meetings held under the Licensing Act 2003 and Associated Regulations. This guidance covers various aspects of remote meetings, including:

• Preparing for the meeting, such as informing the committee officer of attendance, reading reports beforehand, ensuring a stable broadband connection, and having a neutral background.
• Conduct during the meeting, such as joining promptly, muting microphones when not speaking, and stating names when speaking for the first time.
• Instructions for dealing with exempt or confidential items, which may require the committee to go into closed session.

The guidance also includes a note on gender-inclusive minutes, stating that Camden seeks to write minutes in a way that does not misgender individuals.

Other Business

The agenda also includes the following standard items:

• Apologies for absence.
• Declarations by members of statutory disclosable pecuniary interests, compulsory registerable non-pecuniary interests and voluntary registerable non-pecuniary interests in matters on the agenda.
• Announcements.
• Notification of any items of business that the Chair decides to take as urgent.
• Approval of the minutes of the meeting held on 24th July 2025.
• Any other business that the Chair considers urgent.

Councillor Jonathan Simpson MBE, Chair of Licensing Committee, is scheduled to announce that the meeting is being broadcast live and recorded, and that attendees are deemed to have consented to being filmed.