Agenda and draft minutes

The Membership of the Sub-Committee for this meeting will be Councillors Blackwell, Reynolds and Rose.

Please contact Louise Aston (01295 221601) to tender apologies.

The Membership of the Licensing Sub-Committee for this meeting was Councillors Blackwell, Reynolds and Rose.

Members are asked to declare any interest and the nature of that interest which they may have in any of the items under consideration at this meeting.

There were no declarations of interest.

The following item of business contains confidential information. Under Section 100A(2) of Local Government Act 1972 the public must be excluded from the meeting during an item of business ‘whenever it is likely, in view of the nature of the business to be transacted or the nature of the proceedings that, if members of the public were present during that item, confidential information would be disclosed to them in breach of the obligation of confidence’.

Members are advised that as the following item has been marked as confidential the exclusion of the press and public is compulsory in law and the press and public be excluded from the meeting for the following item of business.

Resolved

That the press and public be excluded as the following item had been marked as confidential and the exclusion of the press and public is compulsory in law.

Report of Head of Public Protection and Development Management

Summary

To provide an outline of an application for the grant of a Personal Licence and detail the representations received from Thames Valley Police that have resulted in the need for a hearing to determine the application.

Recommendations

There is no recommendation. In considering the representations received and what is appropriate for the promotion of the licensing objectives, the options open to the Sub-Committee are, in broad terms:

(1)               Reject the application if it considers in necessary for the promotion of the crime prevention objective to do so; or

(2)               Grant the application in any other case

The Head of Public Protection and Development Management submitted a report which provided an outline of an application for the grant of a Personal Licence and detail the representations received from Thames Valley Police that have resulted in the need for a hearing to determine the application.

After considering all the representations made at the hearing the Sub-Committee decided that the meeting should be adjourned to allow for the submission of additional information by the applicant.

Recommendations

(1)               That the meeting be adjourned to 10am on 16 August 2012 to allow the applicant to submit additional information to support the application for the grant of a Personal Licence.

The meeting adjourned at 10.30am

The meeting reconvened at 10am on 16 August 2012.

The Vehicle and Parks Manager advised the Licensing Sub-Committee that the applicant had withdrawn their application for a personal licence.