The Committee will note that Councillor Browne was appointed Chair and Councillor Mrs Nicholson was appointed Vice-Chair at the Council’s AGM held on 20 May 2011.

The panel noted the appointment of the Chair and Vice Chair as agreed at the Annual General Meeting held on 20 May 2011.

Members will be asked to make any declarations of interest in respect of items on this Agenda.

There were no declarations of interest made by Councillors in accordance with the code of conduct.

To confirm the minutes of the following meetings:

Licensing Sub Committee (Miscellaneous)

Licensing Committee (Miscellaneous)

• 15 March 2011

Agreed that the following minutes of the 15 March 2011 Licensing Committee (Miscellaneous) and the 8 March 2011, 15 March 2011, 5 April 2011, 31 May 2011, 12 July 2011, 26 July 2011, 2 August 2011, 9 August 2011, 23 August 2011, 6 September 2011 and 20 September 2011 Licensing Sub Committees are approved.

To receive reports on business which, in the opinion of the Chair, should be brought forward for urgent consideration.

There were no items of Chair’s urgent business.

The committee will be provided with a mediation report to update members on current licensing applications.

Pete Clemens, Senior Licensing Officer, provided the Committee with an update on current licensing application as part of the mediation report.

Members were informed that the reason some applications had been granted within Cumulative Impact Policy areas, such as The Barbican, was due to the Licensing Department either mediating out any representations received or not receiving any relevant representations from responsible authorities or interested parties and that as a result of this the applications had to be granted under the provisions of the Licensing Act 2003.

Members noted the update.

To consider passing a resolution under Section 100A(4) of the Local Government Act 1972 to exclude the press and public from the meeting for the following item(s) of business on the grounds that it (they) involve(s) the likely disclosure of exempt information as defined in paragraph(s)of Part 1 of Schedule 12A of the Act, as amended by the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

There were no items of exempt business.