Agenda item

4.1

The Chief Licensing Officer submitted a report to consider an application, under the Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1982, for the grant of a Static Street Trading Consent for Fargate (Ref No. 82/17).

4.2

Present at the meeting were Joanne Cubbins (Applicant), Clive Stephenson (Licensing Strategy and Policy Officer), Samantha Bond (Legal Adviser to the Sub-Committee) and John Turner (Democratic Services).

4.3

Samantha Bond outlined the procedure which would be followed during the hearing.

4.4

Clive Stephenson presented the report to the Sub-Committee, and it was noted that there was already an existing Static Street Trading Consent for Fargate, to trade between 09:00 and 19:00 hours, Monday to Sunday.  Mr Stephenson stated that the current consent-holder had not been trading on Fargate for some time and, whilst this was not against any conditions as they had paid their site fees to date, if such fees were not paid going forward, the Service would have to take action in relation to non-payment.  He confirmed that a consent-holder may surrender a consent at any time. The consent period was due to end in November 2017, with the final quarterly site fee due in September 2017, so it was suggested that consideration of this application be deferred until mid-September 2017 at the earliest, to see if the site fees were paid. 

4.5

RESOLVED: That, in the light of the information now reported, and the current circumstances regarding this case, consideration of the application be deferred to a hearing in mid-September 2017.