Agenda and minutes

Members in any doubt about such declarations are advised to contact Legal or Democratic Services in advance of the meeting

There were no declarations of interest in accordance with the Code of Conduct.

To confirm as a correct record the Minutes of the meeting of Licensing and Appeals Committee held on 14 June 2022

RESOLVED:  That the Minutes of the meeting of the Licensing and Appeals Committee held on 14 June 2022 be approved as a correct record and signed by the Chairman.

To receive the Minutes of the following meetings of the Licensing and Appeals Committee sitting as a Panel:

27 June 2022 (x2)

6 July 2022 (x3)

27 July 2022

RESOLVED:  That the Minutes of the meetings of the Licensing and Appeals Committee sitting as a Panel held on 27 June 2022, 6 July 2022 and 27 July 2022 be received and noted.  

The report invites Members to consider the responses received to the consultation on the Council’s Street Trading Policy.

The report of the Director of Central Services and Deputy Chief Executive provided the results of the consultation on proposed changes to the Council’s Street Trading Policy and redesignations of the Borough.  The consultation ran from 20 June 2022 to 29 August 2022 and of the 50 responses received, 42% were in favour of the re-designation and draft policy and 58% were against.

During discussion and in response to concern raised by Members, reassurance was given that the re-designation applied to businesses trading on a highway and did not apply to non-commercial events that were community based and run for non-commercial purposes such as fetes or school fund raising activities where any of the profit of the trading was not for commercial gain, and noted that a list of exemptions, although not exhaustive, was contained in the Street Trading policy.

RESOLVED: that the re-designation and the introduction of the new Street Trading policy, with the previous agreed timelines as set out at Annex 3, be continued.

The Head of Licensing, Community Safety and Customer Services advised that an update report on the Air Quality Plan for Taxi Fleet would be presented at the next meeting.  A request to consider the requirement of having a card reader machine in taxi vehicles was raised.  The Head of Licensing, Community Safety and Customer Services advised that there was an opportunity for this point to be considered as part of the Hackney Carriage and Private Taxi Policy consultation which was due to commence shortly.

The Chairman to move that the press and public be excluded from the remainder of the meeting during consideration of any items the publication of which would disclose exempt information.

There were no items considered in private.