Issue - meetings

Further to Minute No. 03/17 to consider a report by the Head of Environment and Transport on the outcome of consultations on proposals to introduce a licensing scheme for pavement cafes.

Approved the introduction of a scheme for licensing pavement cafes; agreed that the annual fee should be £220; Authorised the Head of Administration, in consultation with the Executive Councillor for Resources, Welfare and Information Technology, to determine applications and to take any necessary consequential action to introduce the scheme at the earliest possible date.

Further to Minute No 03/17 and by way of a report by the Head of Environment and Transport (a copy of which is appended in the Minute Book) Members were acquainted with the outcome of consultations with town centre businesses and other interested bodies on proposals to introduce a licensing scheme for pavement cafes.

Whereupon, it was

RESOLVED

(a)  that a scheme for licensing pavement cafes be approved and introduced in town centres throughout the District;

(b)  that an annual licensing fee of £220 for pavement cafes be introduced;

(c)  that the Head of Administration, after consultation with the Executive Councillor for Resources, Welfare, and Information Technology, be authorised to determine applications; and

(d)   that the Head of Administration be authorised to take any necessary consequential action to introduce a licensing scheme at the earliest possible date.