Agenda and decisions

RESOLVED to approve the nomination of Councillor Emma Plouviez as Chair of the Licensing Committee and the nomination of Councillor Brian Bell as Vice-Chair of the Licensing Committee.

The Chair will consider the admission of any late items of Urgent Business. Late items of Urgent Business will be considered under the agenda item where they appear. New items of urgent business will be dealt with under Item 9 below.

A Member with a disclosable pecuniary interest or a prejudicial interest in a matter who attends a meeting of the authority at which the matter is considered:

(i) must disclose the interest at the start of the meeting or when the interest becomes apparent, and

(ii) may not participate in any discussion or vote on the matter and must withdraw from the meeting room.

A Member who discloses at a meeting a disclosable pecuniary interest which is not registered in the Register of Members’ Interests or the subject of a pending notification must notify the Monitoring Officer of the interest within 28 days of the disclosure.

Disclosable pecuniary interests, personal interests and prejudicial interests are defined at Paragraphs 8.1-15.2 of Section Two of Part 5 of the Constitution  and Appendix A of the Members’ Code of Conduct.

A Member with a disclosable pecuniary interest or a prejudicial interest in a matter who attends a meeting of the authority at which the matter is considered:

(i) must disclose the interest at the start of the meeting or when the interest becomes apparent, and

(ii) may not participate in any discussion or vote on the matter and must withdraw from the meeting room.

A Member who discloses at a meeting a disclosable pecuniary interest which is not registered in the Register of Members’ Interests or the subject of a pending notification must notify the Monitoring Officer of the interest within 28 days of the disclosure.

Disclosable pecuniary interests, personal interests and prejudicial interests are defined at Paragraphs 8.1-15.2 of Section Two of Part 5 of the Constitution  and Appendix A of the Members’ Code of Conduct.

This report seeks the approval of the Licensing Committee to establishment of five Licensing Sub-Committees A, B, C,D &E for the Municipal Year 2019/20 , together with their respective membership, and arrangements for substitution for each Sub-Committee.

RESOLVED to establish five Licensing Sub-Committees A to E as detailed in  Appendix A of the report.

RESOLVED to approve the membership of the five Licensing sub-Committees A-E as included in Appendix A of the report:

LICENSING SUB COMMITTEE A

Councillor Sophie Conway

Councillor Sharon Patrick

Councillor Gilbert Smyth

LICENSING SUB COMMITTEE B

Councillor Margaret Gordon

Councillor Sem Moema

Councillor Harvey Odze

LICENSING SUB COMMITTEE C

Councillor James Peters

Councillor Penny Wrout

Councillor M Can Ozsen

LICENSING SUB COMMITTEE D

Councillor Brian Bell

Councillor Emma Plouviez

Councillor Ian Rathbone

LICENSING SUB COMMITTEE E

Councillor Sophie Cameron

Councillor Caroline Selman

Councillor Peter Snell

RESOLVED it be noted that each Member appointed to their respective

Licensing Sub-Committees will automatically be appointed as

substitutes to the other four respective Licensing Sub-Committees.

RESOLVED that the Licensing Committee notes the report.

RESOLVED that the Licensing Service would look at gathering data on those premises licence/variation applications that have been refused and including it in the next annual licensing report.

RESOLVED that the Licensing Service would look into the trend of the decrease in the number of premise licenses being applied for.

RESOLVED that the Licensing Service would look into and report back to the Licensing Committee about with further details on pilot of the pre-application advice/cost recovery scheme.

RESOLVED that the Licensing Service would look into and report back to the Licensing Committee with an update on work towards achieving cost neutrality by 2020. 

RESOLVED that the Licensing Committee notes the report.