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Minutes of a meeting of the General Licensing Committee
held on Wednesday, 26 May 2021 at 9.50 am in Meeting Room 5, 135 Eastern Avenue, Milton Park, Milton, Abingdon, OX14 4SB
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Open to the public, including the press
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Present in the meeting room: |
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Councillors: Alison Jenner (Chair), Ron Batstone (Vice-Chair), Val Shaw |
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Officers: Sarah Commins, Michael Flowers, and Andrew Thomson
Remote attendance: Officers: Candida Mckelvey and Susie Royce. |
GL7 Apologies for absence
There were no apologies for absence.
GL8 Minutes
RESOLVED: to approve the minutes of the previous meeting held on Tuesday 18 May 2021 as a correct record and agree that the chair signs them as such.
GL9 Declarations of interest
There were no declarations of interest.
GL10 Urgent business and chair's announcements
There were no matters of urgent business nor chair’s announcements.
GL11 Public participation
None.
GL12 Appointment of General Licensing Panels
RESOLVED: to
a. appoint sub-committees comprising any three members of the General Licensing Committee;
b. agree that the sub-committees be known as general licensing panels;
c. appoint each member of the General Licensing Committee to serve on any general licensing panel which is convened so as to include her or him in its membership;
d. authorise each general licensing panel to discharge all functions relating to matters referred to the committee or to its sub-committees, other than under the Taxi Licensing Policy;
e. agree that, wherever possible, applications should be heard by a panel comprising the chair or vice-chair of the committee plus two other members of the committee, but that this should not affect the principle that any three members of the committee will constitute a properly appointed panel;
f. authorise the head of legal and democratic to invite an appropriate panel to conduct a scheduled hearing having regard to members’ availability and eligibility to take part and ensuring that as far as possible all members of the committee have the opportunity to conduct hearings.
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The meeting closed at 9.55 am |