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Meeting documentation

Meeting documents

Licensing Committee
Wednesday, 12th April, 2006 6.30 pm

ItemDescriptionResolution
Declaration of interests - members are reminded that following the adoption by Council of the new Code of Conduct, any declaration of interest should be made having regard to the new code. In particular, members must make clear the nature of the interest and whether it is 'personal' or 'prejudicial'.

The Monitoring Officer would like to remind members that when they are considering whether the following items are exempt information under the relevant paragraph under part 1 of Schedule 12A of the Local Government Act 1972 they must have regard to the public interest test. This means that members must consider, for each item, whether the public interest in maintaining the exemption from disclosure outweighs the public interest in making the item available to the public.
21 MINUTES
Minutes of the Meeting held on Wednesday, 2nd November, 2005
 RESOLVED:

The minutes of 2 November 2005 be approved.
22 LICENSING ACT 2003 - OUTCOME OF LEGAL PROCEEDINGS
The Senior Licensing Officer reported on the outcome of two appeals by the Police against the Licensing Authority's decisions to vary the premises licences in respect of The White Hart and The Bulls Head, Market Street, Ashby de la Zouch. These items were taken together at the request of the Chairman.

A member expressed disappointment that the police had lodged those appeals and the Committee also expressed concern about the impact these would have on other premises submitting applications for varying hours within the saturation policy area.
 RESOLVED:

The reports be noted.
23 GAMBLING ACT 2005 UPDATE
The Licensing Officer reported on the provisions and implications of the forthcoming Gambling Act and sought members' comments on the consultation document.

The Licensing Officer expressed a number of concerns about aspects of the proposed legislation, including the potential lateness of prescribed forms and guidance from Central Government and the complexity of differing licensing requirements in respect of certain operators.
 RESOLVED:


(a) The report be noted.

(b) The concerns expressed by the Licensing Officer form the basis of the Council's response to the consultation document.

(c) The Director of Environment, in consultation with the Chairman, be authorised to respond to any future consultation documents about this proposed legislation unless they raise controversial matters which should then be referred back to this Committee.
24 HACKNEY CARRIAGE FARE TABLE
The Senior Licensing Officer reported on recommendations made by the Hackney Carriage and Private Hire Driver's Consultative Forum to vary the hackney carriage fare table.

The Committee considered the two proposals which were made by the Forum.

1. The hackney carriage fare table not be amended.

2. That the extra charge of 58 pence per journey for each dog carried (except guide dogs which travelled free) was an irrelevance and that it should be removed from the fare table.

The Senior Licensing Officer advised members that any alteration to the fare table would require public notice to be given in the local newspaper. Given the nature of the change and the fact that the trade itself had stated that this charge was seldom levied, the Senior Licensing Officer questioned the need to incur costs advertising for this minor alteration at this time. A member suggested that the Committee agree option 1 and make no amendment to the fare table at this time but that the amendment suggested in item 2 be made at the next review of fares.
 RESOLVED:

(a) No amendment be made to the table of fares and the amendment suggested be carried forward to the next review of fares.

(b) The Hackney Carriage and Private Hire Driver's Consultative Forum be advised accordingly.

The Chairman stated that this would be his last meeting as Chair of the Licensing Committee and wanted to place on record his thanks to officers and members for all their hard work through a very difficult year. He also stated that his thanks to the former Head of Administration, Roy Eaton, be recorded.
Published on Thursday, 4th May, 2006
The meeting terminated at 7.15pm.

Attendance Details

Present:
Councillor P A Hyde (Chairman)

Councillors J G Coxon, R A Evans, P Holland, A C Saffell and D H Wintle

Officers: Mr D Gill, Miss M Lister, Miss E McHugh, Mrs K Preece and Ms B Thomas