Agenda and minutes

Apologies were received from Councillors Vivien Cutler, Rakhia Ismail, Marian Spall and Joe Caluori.

If you have a Disclosable Pecuniary Interest* in an item of business:

§  if it is not yet on the council’s register, you must declare both the existence and details of it at the start of the meeting or when it becomes apparent;

§  you may choose to declare a Disclosable Pecuniary Interest that is already in the register in the interests of openness and transparency. 

In both the above cases, you must leave the room without participating in discussion of the item.

If you have a personal interest in an item of business and you intend to speak or vote on the item you must declare both the existence and details of it at the start of the meeting or when it becomes apparent but you may participate in the discussion and vote on the item.

*(a) Employment, etc - Any employment, office, trade, profession or vocation carried on for profit or gain.

(b) Sponsorship - Any payment or other financial benefit in respect of your expenses in carrying out duties as a member, or of your election; including from a trade union.

(c) Contracts - Any current contract for goods, services or works, between you or your partner (or a body in which one of you has a beneficial interest) and the council.

(d) Land - Any beneficial interest in land which is within the council’s area.

(e) Licences- Any licence to occupy land in the council’s area for a month or longer.

(f) Corporate tenancies - Any tenancy between the council and a body in which you or your partner have a beneficial interest.

 (g) Securities - Any beneficial interest in securities of a body which has a place of business or land in the council’s area, if the total nominal value of the securities exceeds £25,000 or one hundredth of the total issued share capital of that body or of any one class of its issued share capital. 

This applies to all members present at the meeting.

There were no declarations of interest.

RESOLVED that the minutes of the 3 October 2019 be confirmed as a correct record of proceedings and the Chair be authorised to sign them.

RESOLVED

a)    that four Licensing Sub-Committees be established for the year 2020/2021 with the terms of reference as set out in Appendix 1 of the report and that all functions falling within their terms of reference be delegated to them;

b)    That the following members, Chairs and Vice-Chairs be appointed for the municipal year 2020/2021 or until successors are appointed;

Licensing Sub A

Licensing Sub B

            Licensing Sub C

            Licensing Sub D

c)    That it be noted that the following are members of the Licensing Committee and are substitutes for all of the Licensing Sub-Committees;

Councillor Rakhia Ismail

d)    That the Terms of Reference for the Licensing Committee, as set out in Appendix 2, be noted.