To approve as a correct record the minutes of the meeting held on 4 March 2024.

The minutes of the meeting held on 4 March 2024 were submitted for consideration as a correct record.

Decision

To approve the minutes of the meeting held on 4 March 2024 as a correct record.

The officers consider that the following item contains exempt information as provided for in the Local Government Access to Information Act and that the public interest in maintaining the exemption outweighs the public interest in disclosing the information. The Committee is recommended to agree the necessary resolutions excluding the public from the meeting during consideration of this item. At the time this agenda is published no representations have been that this part of the meeting should be open to the public.

The exclude the Public for the following item of business.

The report of the Director of Planning, Building Control and Licensing is enclosed.

The Committee considered the report of the Director of Planning, Building Control and Licensing, which considered an appeal against a decision to revoke a street trading consent (Ref: 297878). The Licensing & Appeals Committee approved the Street Trading Policy without modification on 28 November 2011. The policy included the provision that Street Trading Licence and Consent applications, which attract objections, shall be considered by a Licensing & Appeals Sub-Committee.

Appeals from this Sub-Committee in relation to Street Trading Consent applications will be considered by the full Licensing & Appeals Committee.

The Principal Licensing Officer stated that this item concerned an appeal against the Sub-Committee’s decision on 9 September 2024 to revoke this street trader consent. The street trader’s legal representative had contacted the Licensing Team requesting that the hearing be deferred to another date, owing to a family emergency. When asked for further detail, the legal representative stated that a family member had passed away. The Principal Licensing Officer confirmed that the Licensing Team had requested that the street trader themselves attend the hearing today but noted that they were not present.

The Committee were invited to consider whether to go ahead with the hearing in the street trader and their appointed representative’s absence.

(Councillors Bano and Hughes left the meeting before the commencement of this item as they sat on the Licensing and Appeals Sub-Committee where the street trader consent was revoked).

Decision

To defer the matter to the next meeting of the Licensing and Appeals Committee on 2 December 2024.