Agenda and minutes
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Apologies Minutes: Apologies were received from Councillor Malpas and Councillor Choudary. |
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(Copy herewith) Minutes: The minutes of the meeting held on the 1st December were agreed and signed by the chair with the addition that Councillor Choudary left the meeting at 18:25. |
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Deputations / Public Addresses Minutes: Councillor Stone addressed the committee on item 6. |
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Declarations of Interest Minutes: None. |
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Matters of Urgency which by reason of special circumstances the chair is of the opinion should be considered Minutes: None. |
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Licensing Act 2003 Statement of Licensing Policy (Copy herewith) Additional documents:
Minutes: Councillor Stone arrived at the meeting at 18:15.
Senior Licensing Officer Mr Bill Edwards presented the report and elaborated thereon. It was recommended thattheCommitteeapprovethatthedraftStatementofLicensingPolicybe approvedforadoption of it bytheFullCouncilon25thJanuary2016. In accordance withSection5 Licensing Act 2003 it was reported thattheCouncil,asLicensing Authority,is requiredto adopt aStatementofLicensingPolicyeveryfive years. TheCouncil’s currentStatementof LicensingPolicy wasadoptedin January 2011andrequiresfreshadoptionpriorto February 2016.
The report confirmed that a consultation exercise had been conducted and where such consultation responses were deemed to be relevant and not addressed by other legislation, were included within the policy statement.
The Senior Licensing Officer advised that atthelast committeehearingofthe15thSeptembertheCommitteeapproved the12week consultation process which ended on the28thDecember 2015 and responsesto theconsultation which werereceived have been attachedatAppendixA of the report. Also attached ... view the full minutes text for item 6. |
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Review of Private Hire Operator Fees (Copy herewith) Additional documents: Minutes: The Senior Licensing Officer Louise Faulkner presented the report and elaborated thereon. This report is concernedwith amending thefeestructureforPrivateHire Operators,in order to takeintoconsiderationthatlicencesmustnowbeissuedfor thestatutoryfiveyears, unlessin circumstances of anindividual case.The proposedfeestructure andexistingfees aredetailedin AppendixA & B of the report. It was advised that a costexercise has beenundertakenin orderto ascertainthelevel of feethat shouldbesetfor aNew/RenewalOperatorsLicence and thisexercise hasbeen carried out usinga toolkit recommendedbytheInstitute of Licensingfor the calculation of licensingfees. Itwas proposed thatallOperators paya standard feefortheapplicationandgrantof alicence,includingassociatedfeesfor inspectionvisits byanofficer tocarryout ad-hocaudit checks.A separateelementis ... view the full minutes text for item 7. |
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Exclusion of Public and Press The Chair to Move: “that the public and press be excluded from the remainder of the meeting on the grounds that there is likely to be disclosure to them of such categories of exempt information as defined by section 100(1) of the Local Government Act 1972 as listed against such items of business by reference to the appropriate paragraph of Schedule 12a to such act.” Minutes: The Chair moved that the Public and Press be excluded from the remainder of the meeting on the grounds that there was likely to be disclosure to them of such categories of exempt information as defined by Section 100(1) of the Local Government Act 1972 as listed against such items of business by reference to the appropriate paragraph of Schedule 12A to such Act.
The Motion was Carried. |
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