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Licensing Street Trading Policy
Meeting: 18/09/2014 - Licensing Committee (old regime) (Item 8.)
8. Licensing Street Trading Policy PDF 59 KB
Meeting: 18/09/2014 - Licensing Committee (Item 12)
Minutes:
The Head of Housing
and Community Services advised Members of proposed changes to the
procedures for dealing with Street Trading
applications. Under the current
system if no objections to an application for a pitch outside the
town centre are received, the Head of Housing and Community
Services can grant the consent but if the application is for the
town centre, it would be subject to consultation with the Chairman
and Vice-Chairman of the Committee, who could refer it to the full
Licensing Committee for determination.
If there were any objections, there would be a hearing before the
full Committee.
Members were asked to consider a change being that the decisions on
all applications that receive no representation are delegated to
the Head of Housing and Community Services. It was noted that there was not a clear reason why
streets outside of the town centre should be treated in a different
way from the town’s. The current system could be open to
challenge.
Therefore under the proposal the new form of words within the 2010
Licensing Policy at paragraphs 6.4 and 6.12 would read:
“If no objections are received the Head of Housing and
Community Services has delegated power to determine the
application.
If objections are received the application will be determined by a
licensing sub-committee of 3 members of Licensing Committee. A
hearing will be held following the attached procedure”.
However, Members did not feel that there were good reasons to
change the current policy which provides safeguards for a
relatively small number of applications and decided that any
differentiation by area should be dealt with by all cases borough
wide with no objection being subject to consultation with the
Chairman and Vice-Chairman prior to any officer decision and
therefore:-
RESOLVED: That the
following changes be made to the Street Trading Policy document at
paragraphs 6.4 and 6.12 respectively:-
a)
If no objections to a Street Trading application are received
the
Head of Housing and Community Services be given delegated
powers to grant consent, subject to consultation with the
Chairman and Vice Chairman of the Licensing Committee who
may ask for the application to be referred to a
Sub-Committee
consisting of three Members of the Licensing Committee for
decision.