Agenda and minutes

Licensing Committee - Tuesday 3 February 2015 10.00 am, NEW

Venue: Council House (Next to the Civic Centre), Plymouth

Contact: Helen Rickman / Lynn Young  Email: helen.rickman@plymouth.gov.uk / Email: lynn.young@plymouth.gov.uk

Items
No. Item

44.

DECLARATIONS OF INTEREST

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

Minutes:

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

45.

MINUTES pdf icon PDF 85 KB

To confirm the following minutes:

 

Licensing Sub Committee:

 

·          

12 August 2014

 

·          

23 September 2014

 

·          

7 October 2014

 

·          

21 October 2014

 

Licensing Committee:

 

·                     26 August 2014.

Additional documents:

Minutes:

Agreed the minutes of the meetings held on the following dates:

 

Licensing Sub Committee:

12 August 2014, 23 September 2014, 7 October 2014, 21 October 2014.

 

Licensing Committee:

26 August 2014.

 

The Democratic Support Officer advised Members that the minutes for the 26 August 2014 Licensing Committee needed to be amended to include apologies received from Councillor Hendy for this meeting.

46.

CHAIR'S URGENT BUSINESS

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

Minutes:

There were no items of Chair’s Urgent Business.

47.

CITY CENTRE STREET TRADING 2015 pdf icon PDF 65 KB

The Director of Public Health will submit a report on City Centre Street Trading 2015.

Minutes:

Emily Bullimore (BID Street Operations Manager) and Ann Gillbanks (Senior Lawyer) ran through the recommendations attached to the City Centre Street Trading 2015 report.

 

In response to a question raised it was reported that the Assistant Director for Economic Development already had the delegated authority to permit individual street trading consent applications.

 

Agreed that:

 

(1)

a formal review of the existing street trading policy is currently underway;

 

(2)

the Consent dates for 2015 / 2016 are approved;

 

(3)

the Consent fees set out in Appendix 1, for 2015 / 2016 are approved;

 

(4)

the Assistant Director for Economic Development has delegated authority to approve, within Committee policy the issuing of Consents to existing city centre traders seeking to continue trading 2015 / 2016;

 

(5)

the Assistant Director for Economic Development has delegated authority to approve within Committee policy the issuing of Consents to new traders for vacant sites;

 

(6)

the Assistant Director for Economic Development has delegated authority to approve within Committee policy short-term street trading consents in association with other city centre events and commercial activity;

 

(7)

the Assistant Director for Economic Development has delegated authority to approve and set fees for ad hoc street trading applications, within Committee policy;

 

(8)

the Assistant Director for Economic Development has delegated authority to approve within Committee policy the issuing of Consents to applicants for vacant ice cream consent sites for the 2015 /2016 trading period.

 

Members agreed to expand recommendation 8 above to include the following wording:

 

‘all contested ice cream consents for the period 2015/2016 should be at the approval of the Assistant Director for Economic Development in consultation with the Chair and Vice Chair of the Licensing Committee.’

48.

EXEMPT BUSINESS

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.

Minutes:

There were no items of exempt business.