Agenda and minutes

Venue: Meeting Room 5, 135 Eastern Avenue, Milton Park, Milton, Abingdon, OX14 4SB

Contact: Candida Mckelvey, Democratic Services Officer  Email: candida.mckelvey@southandvale.gov.uk

Note: A brief meeting to approve appointment of general licensing panels. To keep the office Covid secure, please contact the officer above if you wish to attend. Watch the live stream here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTj2pCic8vzucpzIaSWE3UQ 

Items
No. Item

GL7

Apologies for absence

To record apologies for absence. 

Minutes:

There were no apologies for absence.

GL8

Minutes pdf icon PDF 208 KB

To adopt and sign as a correct record the General Licensing Committee minutes of the meeting held on 18 May 2021, if available for review.

 

To follow

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

To receive any declarations of disclosable pecuniary interests in respect of items on the agenda for this meeting.  

Minutes:

There were no declarations of interest.

GL10

Urgent business and chair's announcements

To receive notification of any matters which the chair determines should be considered as urgent business and the special circumstances which have made the matters urgent, and to receive any announcements from the chair. 

Minutes:

There were no matters of urgent business nor chair’s announcements.

GL11

Public participation

To receive any questions or statements from members of the public that have registered to speak. 

Minutes:

None.

GL12

Appointment of General Licensing Panels

 

 

Purpose: to agree the appointment of sub-committees to consider individual cases general licensing matters under the committee’s remit for contaminated land, air quality, health and safety, street trading and street naming. 

 

RECOMMENDATIONS 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.

 

Minutes:

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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