Agenda and draft minutes

Licensing Panel - Wednesday, 28 February 2024 10.00 am

Venue: Council Chamber - Time Square, Market Street, Bracknell, RG12 1JD. View directions

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Items
No. Item

5.

Election of Chair

To elect a Chair for the Panel Meeting

Minutes:

RESOLVED that Councillor Bidwell be elected Chair for the meeting.  

6.

Declarations of Interest

Members are asked to declare any disclosable pecuniary or affected interests in respect of any matter to be considered at this meeting.

 

Any Member with a Disclosable Pecuniary 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 Disclosable Pecuniary Interest is not entered on the register of Members interests the Monitoring Officer must be notified of the interest within 28 days.

 

Any Member with an affected Interest in a matter must disclose the interest to the meeting.  There is no requirement to withdraw from the meeting when the interest is only an affected interest, but the Monitoring Officer should be notified of the interest, if not previously notified of it, within 28 days of the meeting.

 

Minutes:

There were no Declarations of Interest.

7.

The Procedure for Hearings at Licensing Panels pdf icon PDF 74 KB

Additional documents:

Minutes:

The procedure for hearings at Licensing Panels was noted by all parties.

8.

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  (Item 9).

9.

Application for private hire drivers licence

To consider an application made for a Private Hire Driver licence.  

Minutes:

The Panel considered the written and oral information presented by the applicant and the Licensing Officer.

 

Having discussed the matter, the Panel agreed to refuse this application for private hire drivers licence.