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Meeting documentation

Meeting documents

Licensing Committee
Wednesday, 21st November, 2007 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.
7 ELECTION OF CHAIRMAN
Due to the absence of the Chairman and Deputy Chairman, Members proposed that Councillor G Allman take the Chair.
 RESOLVED THAT:

Councillor G Allman take the Chair for the meeting.
8 PRESENTATION
Members received a presentation from Inspector Hiom regarding alcohol and its social effects.

Members took the opportunity to discuss the information that had been presented with Inspector Hiom and asked questions for clarity on a number of figures and statistics.

The Licensing Team Leader requested to have involvement with future meetings of the local action groups as a representative of the Council. Inspector Hiom replied that there were a number of groups that the Licensing Team Leader could get involved with and would look into it.

The Chairman thanked inspector Hiom for his informative presentation.
  
9 MINUTES
Minutes of the Meeting held on Wednesday, 19th September, 2007
 RESOLVED THAT:

The minutes from the meeting held on 19 September 2007 be signed and approved as a correct record.
10 IMPLEMENTATION OF VARIATION TO HACKNEY CARRIAGE FARE TABLE
The Licensing Team Leader presented the report of the Commercial Services Manager.

It was proposed that the increase be approved, it was however, pointed out to the Members that there was a statutory consultation process, therefore the proposal was invalid as it was legally incompatible.
 RESOLVED THAT:

(A) Pending the result of the consultation process, the hackney carriage fare table be varied as follows:

'The minimum distance of up to and including one mile be increased to £3.30.'

(B) The authority to resolve any objections received and to decide whether to draw up a new table, be delegated to the Licensing Team Leader.
11 APPOINTMENT OF THE TAXI AND PRIVATE HIRE SUB COMMITTEE
 RESOLVED THAT:

Councillors C Bowley, J G Coxon, P Holland, D Howe and N Smith be appointed to the Taxi and Private Hire Sub Committee.
Published on Thursday, 29th November, 2007
The meeting closed at 7.30pm.

Attendance Details

Present:
Councillors G Allman, M J Blain, J Bridges, J G Coxon, P Holland, D Howe, G Partner and P Purver.

Officers: Mr S Eyre, Miss R Levy and Mrs S Roberts.

In attendance: Councillor T Gillard

Guests: Inspector R Hiom (Hamilton Police Station)