Agenda
Contact Officer: Steven Corrigan , Democratic Services Officer
Tel: 07717 274704
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E-mail: steven.corrigan@southandvale.gov.uk Date: 6 May 2022 Website: www.southoxon.gov.uk
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A MEETING OF THE
General Licensing Committee
will be held on Thursday 19 May 2022 on the rising of the preceding meeting of the Licensing Acts Committee.
135 Eastern Avenue, Milton Park, Milton, Abingdon OX14 4SB
Members of the Committee:
To be confirmed at the annual meeting of Council on 19 May 2022.
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Apologies for absence
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To record apologies for absence.
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Minutes (Pages 5 - 7)
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To adopt and sign as a correct record the General Licensing Committee minutes of the meeting held on 24 June 2021.
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Declarations of interest
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To receive any declarations of disclosable pecuniary interests in respect of items on the agenda for this meeting.
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Urgent business and chair's announcements
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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.
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Public participation
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To receive any questions or statements from members of the public that have registered to speak.
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Appointment of Taxi Panels
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Purpose: to agree the appointment of sub-committees to consider matters under the Taxi Licensing Policy.
RECOMMENDATIONS to:
1. appoint sub-committees comprising any three members of the General Licensing Committee;
2. agree that the sub-committees be known as taxi licensing panels;
3. appoint each member of the General Licensing Committee to serve on any taxi licensing panel which is convened so as to include her or him in its membership, subject to her or him having attended appropriate training in the last 12 months;
4. authorise each taxi licensing panel to discharge all functions relating to matters referred to the committee or to its sub-committees under the Taxi Licensing Policy;
5. 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;
6. 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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Appointment of General Licensing Panels
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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:
1. appoint sub-committees comprising any three members of the General Licensing Committee;
2. agree that the sub-committees be known as general licensing panels;
3. 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;
4. 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;
5. 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;
6. 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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Patrick Arran
Head of Legal and Democratic