Agenda and minutes

To declare interests in any item on this agenda.

Please find attached the revised procedures for holding and attending a virtual meeting of the Licensing Sub-Committee.

To note the adopted procedure for the conduct of business by the Sub-Committee.

Exclusion

To consider whether, under Section 100(A)(4) of the Local Government Act 1972, the public and press should be excluded from the meeting for the items of business set out below on grounds that they will involve the likely disclosure of exempt information as defined in the following paragraph(s) of Part 1 of Schedule 12A of the Act (as amended) or are confidential under Section 100(A)(2):

The Local Government (Access to Information) (Variation) Order 2006, which came into effect on 1 March 2006, requires the Council to consider whether maintaining the exemption listed above outweighs the potential public interest in disclosing the information. Any member who considers that this test should be applied to any currently exempted matter on this agenda should contact the proper officer at least 24 hours prior to the meeting.

Background Papers

Article 17 - Access to Information, Procedure Rules of the Constitution define background papers as being documents relating to the subject matter of the report which in the Proper Officer's opinion:

(a)        disclose any facts or matters on which the report or an important part of the report is based;  and

(b)        have been relied on to a material extent in preparing the report and does not include published works or those which disclose exempt or confidential information and in respect of executive reports, the advice of any political advisor.

The Council will make available for public inspection for four years after the date of the meeting one copy of each of the documents on the list of background papers.

To consider the attached report concerning a review of a Hackney Carriage Driver’s Licence.

To consider the attached report for a Private Hire Driver’s Licence for Mr S Keating.

To invite the public and press back into the meeting for the remaining items of business.

To consider the attached report for a renewal of a Street Trading Consent.

To consider the attached report for a new Premises Licence at M11 Local in Loughton.

To consider the attached report for a new Premises Licence at 11 Maypole Drive in Chigwell.