Agenda, decisions and minutes

The Committee authorised the Chairman to sign, as a correct record, the Minutes of the meeting held on 5^th July 2004.

Members need only declare an interest in circumstances where there is an item on the agenda that may cause a conflict of interests.

None received .

RESOLVED    to designate the following streets in Pampisford as Consent Streets under the terms of the Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1982, namely Beech Lane, Brewery Road, Church Lane, High Street, London Road and Town Lane and proceed to advertise the Resolution to take effect from 13^th October 2004.

Pampisford Parish Council had requested that certain streets in the Parish be designated as Consent Streets in order that trading could be controlled. A Notice of Intention was published in the local press on 26^th July and no objections were received. The Committee

The Committee, having considered the inclusion of licensing open spaces within the draft licensing policy as detailed in the covering report,

Consideration was given to the Draft Licensing Policy statement as contained in the agenda and it was particularly noted that due to the restricted timescale involved, the Chairman of Scrutiny and Overview Committee and the Chairman of Council had agreed that this item would not be subject to the call-in procedure. The Committee, having considered the contents of the policy document, agreed that the following amendments be made:

Para 5 - Licensing Hours – 2^nd paragraph – insert the word generallybetween the words are and open and replace general provisions and the store is generally accessible to the public with other items.

Para 7 – Children and Cinemas - Additional paragraph to be included as follows:

In the case of premises licensed for the exhibition of films, conditions will be imposed in line with any limitations imposed by the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC). In such cases where an exhibition of a film does not hold a BBFC certificate, the venue operator will be expected to self regulate the film in line with the BBFC classification system. In specific and exceptional cases a certificate may be issued by the Council to promote one or more of the Licensing objectives.

Para 13 – Temporary Event Notices – 3^rd para, 3^rd line down - replace the word events with premises.

Annex C – Table of Delegations in respect of the Licensing Functions – The last five categories in the ‘Matter to be dealt with’ column relating to ‘If a police representation is made’ and ‘All Cases’ should be moved from the ‘Full Committee’ column into the ‘Sub Committee’ column and the addition of ‘All other cases’ into the ‘Officers’ column relating to ‘Application to review premises licence/club premises certificate’

Subject to the above amendments, the Committee

The Committee were subsequently informed that mock hearings for Members to practice different scenarios would take place during November and decision forms would be devised for approving or refusing licensing applications.

Following a recommendation from the Licensing Committee, the Environmental Health Portfolio Holder

APPROVED    the Draft Licensing Policy for consultation purposes.