Agenda item

8.1

The Chief Licensing Officer submitted a report notifying and consulting with Members of the Committee on the draft Street Trading Policy, new draft application forms for the various street trading activities and proposed new fees on certain applications.

8.2

In response to questions from Members of the Committee, Steve Lonnia, Chief Licensing Officer, stated that the Council had the powers to prosecute the pedlars currently operating on Fargate on the grounds that they were operating as street traders without a Street Trading Consent.  However, such prosecutions were often costly and resource-intensive.  The Licensing Service had no powers to take any action in conjunction with the Sky TV van on Fargate as permission for this had been granted by the City Centre Management Team. 

8.3

RESOLVED:  That the Committee:-

(a)

notes the contents of the report now submitted, together with the responses to the questions raised;

(b)

authorises the establishment of a small Working Party, comprising the Deputy Chair of the Committee (Councillor Clive Skelton) and Councillor Neale Gibson, Richard Eyre (City Centre Manager) and Lucy Bond (Development Services), to review the street trading operations in the City Centre and to report back to the Committee on its findings; and

(c)

requests the Chief Licensing Officer to (i) review the issues now raised relating to Ice Cream Mobile Street Trading, specifically the proximity of the ice cream vans to schools, and to report back thereon to a future meeting of the Committee and (ii) investigate the possibility of introducing a qualitative criteria in respect of the market stalls on The Moor, and report back thereon to the Committee’s next meeting on 8^th November 2012.