Meeting documents

Cabinet
Tuesday, 7th February, 2012 7.30 pm

Record of Decision

Decision Taken By: CABINET
Decision No: D120014CAB
Date: 7th February 2012

Decision(s) and Reason(s)

Review of Fees and Charges 2012/13

Minutes


Consideration of recommendations to the Cabinet from the Finance and Property Advisory Board of 4 January 2012.

The Cabinet resolved that:
The recommendations of the Finance and Property Advisory Board be approved as follows:
(1) the charges for photocopying be discontinued;

(2) the supply of pre-purchased agendas be discontinued;

(3) in respect of the recovery of legal fees payable by third parties, the Council's charges continue to follow the rates published by the Secretary of State as set out at paragraph 1.4.1 of the report;

(4) the proposed scale of fees for local Land Charges searches and enquiries set out at paragraph 1.5.8 of the report be adopted with effect from 1 April 2012;

(5) the fees for the Licensing function remain unchanged from the present level pending a full review of all fees relating to this service, save for those which are set by regulation such as the Licensing Act 2003, and the review be undertaken in February 2012 once the new Licensing Manager is in post; and

(6) the existing administrative charges for postal addresses (Street Naming and Numbering) set out at paragraph 1.7.4 of the report be retained with effect from 1 April 2012.

Reasons: As set out in the report submitted to the Finance and Property Advisory Board of 4 January 2012.

Signed Chief Executive: D Hughes

Date of Publication: 10 February 2012

This decision will come into force and may then be implemented on the expiry of 5 working days after publication unless it is called in.