Agenda and minutes

Licensing Panel - Wednesday, 13 July 2016 2.00 pm

Venue: Function Room, Fifth Floor, Easthampstead House, Town Square, Bracknell

Contact: Priya Patel  01344 352233

Items
No. Item

10.

Declarations of Interest

Any Member with a Disclosable Pecuniary Interest or an Affected Interest in a matter should withdraw from the meeting when the matter is under consideration and should notify the Democratic Services Officer in attendance that they are withdrawing as they have such an interest. If the Interest is not entered on the register of Members interests the Monitoring Officer must be notified of the interest within 28 days.

Minutes:

There were no declarations of interest.

11.

The Procedure for Hearings at Licensing Panels pdf icon PDF 116 KB

Additional documents:

Minutes:

The Chairman confirmed that all parties understood the procedure to be followed for the hearing.

12.

Exclusion of Public and Press

To consider the following motion:

 

That pursuant to Section 100A of the Local Government Act 1972, as amended, and having regard to the public interest, members of the public and press be excluded from the meeting for the consideration of the following item which involves the likely disclosure of exempt information under the following category of Schedule 12A of that Act:

 

(1)        Information relating to any individual  (Item 5).

Minutes:

RESOLVED that pursuant to Section 100A of the Local Government Act 1972, as amended, and having regard to the public interest, members of the public and press be excluded from the meeting for the consideration of the following item which involves the likely disclosure of exempt information under the following category of Schedule 12A of that Act:

 

(1)        Information relating to any individual.

13.

Licensed Driver Hearing

Annex A: Application Form                                         (page: 17)

Annex B: Personal Licence Qualification                   (page: 23)

Annex C: Criminal Records Check                            (page: 25)

Annex D: Thames Valley Police Objection                (page: 27)

Annex E: Probation Service Reference                     (page: 29)

Minutes:

The Panel’s decision was that the application for a Personal Licence be refused on the grounds that there would be an adverse impact on the Licensing objective: ‘Prevention of Crime and Disorder’.

 

The Panel carefully considered all the information presented, both written and oral, from:

 

  • the Licensing Officer who outlined the issues;
  • the representative from Thames Valley Police (TVP);
  • the applicant

 

together with reference to the Licensing Objective: Prevention of Crime and disorder, the Council’s own Licensing Policy and the Secretary of State’s guidance.

 

The Panel noted that none of the responsible authorities other than the police had made representations.