Issue - meetings

The Committee received a report from the Environmental Health Manager which set out the fees and charges for licences and associated items which were proposed to be made with effect from 1 April 2016 and would be submitted to Full Council to note on 25 February 2016.

The Committee asked the following questions in response to the report:

i.             At what stage were proposals formulated, did the original proposals come to the Licensing Committee.

ii.            Queried the inflation figure in paragraph 3.11 of the Officer’s report.

In response to the Committee’s questions, the Environmental Health Manager confirmed the following:

       i.                Following the Westminster case, the licensing fee proposals are delegated to Officers to draft, Officers follow a formula approach and bring the final report to Licensing Committee for approval and to Council to note, this has been the case for the past two years.

     ii.                The inflation figures were provided by the Finance Department.

Resolved by 7 votes to 0 to:

    i.                   Approve the level of fees and charges with effect from 1 April 2016, as set out in Appendix A and request officers to communicate the charges to the businesses, taxi trade and public.