Agenda and draft minutes

To receive any announcements from the chair and general housekeeping matters.

The chair welcomed everyone to the meeting, outlined the procedure to be followed and advised on emergency evacuation arrangements.

To record apologies for absence. 

Apologies for absence were received from Councillors Lucy Edwards, Oliver Forder, Paul Barrow, Cheryl Briggs, Neil Fawcett, Diana Lugova, and Val Shaw. 

To adopt and sign as a correct record the Licensing Acts Committee minutes of the meeting held on 17 May 2023. 

RESOLVED: to approve the minutes of the meeting held on 17 May 2023 as a correct record and agree that the Chair sign these as such.

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

There were no declarations of interest.

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.

There was no urgent business.

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

There were no registered speakers.

Purpose: to agree the appointment of licensing sub-committees to consider matters under the Licensing Act 2003 and Gambling Act 2005.

RECOMMENDATION to:

1.       appoint licensing sub-committees comprising any three members of the Licensing Acts Committee;

2.       appoint each member of the Licensing Acts Committee to serve on any subcommittee which is convened so as to include them in its membership, subject to them having attended appropriate training in the last 12 months;

3.       agree that the sub-committees be known as licensing panels;

4.       authorise each licensing panel to discharge all functions under the Licensing Act 2003 and Gambling Act 2005 including determining and dealing with applications for licences, certificates, temporary events and other notices and all variations, transfers, withdrawals and reviews of such matters;

5.       agree that wherever possible applications should be heard by a licensing 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 licensing panel;

6.       authorise the head of legal and democratic to invite an appropriate licensing 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.

The committee considered a proposal to appoint licensing sub-committees, agreed to be referred to as licensing panels, to consider matters under the Licensing Act 2003 and Gambling Act 2005.

RESOLVED: to

1.       appoint licensing sub-committees comprising any three members of the Licensing Acts Committee;

2.       appoint each member of the Licensing Acts Committee to serve on any subcommittee which is convened so as to include them in its membership, subject to them having attended appropriate training in the last 12 months;

3.       agree that the sub-committees be known as licensing panels;

4.       authorise each licensing panel to discharge all functions under the Licensing Act 2003 and Gambling Act 2005 including determining and dealing with applications for licences, certificates, temporary events and other notices and all variations, transfers, withdrawals and reviews of such matters;

5.       agree that wherever possible applications should be heard by a licensing 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 licensing panel;

6.       authorise the head of legal and democratic to invite an appropriate licensing 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.