Agenda item

Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1982 - Street Trading

Report of the Chief Licensing Officer

 

 

*(NOTE: The report at item 5 in the above agenda is not available to the public and press because it contains exempt information described in paragraphs 1 and 2 of Schedule 12A to the Local Government Act 1972 (as amended))

 

Minutes:

4.1

The Chief Licensing Officer submitted a report to consider an application for the grant of a Mobile Street Trading consent (Fruit and Vegetables and Other Traders), made under the Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1982.

 

 

4.2

Present at the meeting were Mohammed Unnais (applicant), Louise Slater (Solicitor to the Sub-Committee), Andy Ruston (Senior Licensing Officer) and Jennie Skiba (Democratic Services).

 

 

4.3

The Solicitor to the Sub-Committee outlined the procedure which would be followed during the hearing.

 

 

4.4

Andy Ruston (Senior Licensing Officer) presented the report to the Sub-Committee and it was noted that objections had been received from the South Yorkshire Police and were attached at Appendix “B” to the report.

 

 

4.5

Councillor Clive Skelton asked whether South Yorkshire Police had been invited to attend the hearing, to which Andy Ruston referred to the copy of the invite attached at Appendix “E”, and added that the Police had informed him on the 14th May that they would  not be attending.

 

 

4.6

RESOLVED: That the public and press and attendee involved in the application be excluded from the meeting before further discussion takes place on the grounds that, in view of the nature of the business to be transacted, if those persons were present, there would be a disclosure to them of exempt information as described in paragraphs 5 of Schedule 12A to the Local Government Act 1972, as amended.

 

 

4.7

The Solicitor to the Sub-Committee reported orally, giving legal advice on various aspects of the application.

 

 

4.8

At this stage in the proceedings, the meeting was re-opened to the public and press and attendee.

 

 

4.9

RESOLVED: That the application be deferred for a period of 14 days until the 11th June, 2013 to give the South Yorkshire Police a further opportunity to attend and outline their objections to the application.