Agenda and draft minutes

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To receive any apologies for absence.

Apologies for absence was received from Councillor Nick da Costa, Councillor Makbule Gunes and Councillor Sheila Peacock.

The Chair will consider the admission of any late items of Urgent Business. (Late items will be considered under the agenda item where they appear. New items will be dealt with under item 8 below).

There was no urgent business.

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To consider any requests received in accordance with Part 4, Section B, paragraph 29 of the Council’s constitution.

There were none.

i)  To confirm and sign the minutes of the Licensing Committee meeting held on 29 July 2024 as a correct record.

ii)  To note the Licensing Sub-Committee and Special Licensing Sub-Committee decisions from 16 November 2023

RESOLVED:

That minutes of the Licensing Committee meeting held on 29 July 2024 be confirmed and signed as a correct record of the proceedings.

RESOLVED:

That the minutes of the Licensing Sub-Committee and the Special Licensing Sub-Committee from 16 November 2023 to 17 October 2024 be noted.

This report proposes an increase of fees for those licensing regimes where the council has the power to set its own fees for 2025 – 26. The fee increases will enable the council to recover its costs in managing and administering these licensing regimes. There is one new charge “promotional activity/product sampling” proposed for administrative procedures for these matters.

Ms Daliah Barret, Licensing Team Leader, introduced the report.

The Committee heard:

·      The figure of 5% had been provided by the Council’s Finance Officer.

·      In relation to promotional activity, some businesses wanted to engaged with the public and sign-up new customers. More often than, not they wanted to use a van and have a trailer left on the pavement overnight. This was what the cost was there for. There were some commodities that were not allowed promotion. This included tobacco, smoking related matters, nothing promoting alcohol or gambling.

·      The fees were entirely new fees being set for promotional activities.

·      The street trading account should be done on its own, but was done corporately at Haringey. 

·      The Council was not making a surplus and the fees should probably be set higher. The fees meant to be able to cover officer’s time to do enforcement also. However, for officers going out every couple of weeks to even monitor a Tottenham Hotspur match and having to deal with the illegal street traders outweighed the budget that the Council had. It would be unfair if the Council put the extra amount of cost on the ten or so registered Street Traders in the borough as this would be quite a significant increase for them to have to make.

·      The match day traders pay their fees as normal but during an event, there was a separate fee also in for traders to trade on an event day. This was how the Council tried to recuperate some cost to pay for the officers that had to work on those days.

·      The Council could not deal with what happened inside a supermarket, but was responsible for what happened on the public highway. This was why the Council needed to be able to say ’yes’ or ‘no’ to certain types of promotional activities and have safeguards in place around this. Health promotions such as Cancer Research spend a week on the public highway and there would be no charge for this because that was a public health benefit.

·      In relation to fundraising organization, the Council already had an agreement with the fundraising Regulators let the Council know when charities were coming to the area to come and sign people up. These organisations could go about their business in the borough. What the Council dealt with was the complaints that came in from the public being accosted to sign-up to an organisation.

·      Any market taking place within a premises was not subject to the Council’s consideration. The market at Tottenham Green was supported by the Council’s economic development team. An individual had been assigned as the market operator who charged a fee of each individual trader coming to attend the market. It could be argued that the fee should not be charged because it was not for the operator to charge the trader, it was for the Council to make the charge because it was on the public highway. The fees put in place were extremely reasonable.

·      In relation  ...  view the full minutes text for item 7.

To consider any items of urgent business as identified at item 3.

There were none.