Agenda and minutes

Apologies for absence were received from Cllr Lister, Cllr Beacham, Cllr Edge and Cllr Scott, and apologies for lateness were received from Cllr Demirci.

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. It being a special meeting of the Committee, under the Council’s Constitution, Part 4, Section B, Paragraph 17, no other business may be considered at this meeting.

There were no items of urgent business.

A member with a personal interest in a matter who attends a meeting of the authority at which the matter is considered must disclose to that meeting the existence and nature of that interest at he commencement of that consideration, or when the interest becomes apparent.

A member with a personal interest in a matter also has a prejudicial interest in that matter if the interest is one which a member of the public with knowledge of the relevant facts would reasonably regard as so significant that it is likely to prejudice the member’s judgement of the public interest and if this interest affects their financial position or the financial position of a person or body as described in paragraph 8 of the Code of Conduct and/or if it relates to the determining of any approval, consent, licence, permission or registration in relation to them or any person or body described in paragraph 8 of the Code of Conduct.

There were no declarations of interest.

To establish three Licensing Sub Committees to conduct the majority of hearings under the Licensing Act 2003 and the Gambling Act 2005.

The Committee received a report on the variation of the membership of the established three Licensing Sub Committees. Further to the resignation of Cllr Sheik Thompson as a Member of the Licensing Committee, Cllr Sheila Peacock had been appointed to the resulting vacancy of the Committee at Full Council on 22 February 2010. The Committee was therefore asked to confirm the membership of the three Licensing Sub Committees, in accordance with the Council’s Constitution, and to appoint to the vacancy on Licensing Sub Committee B, as set out in the report.

RESOLVED

i)                    That Members note the resignation of Councillor Sheik Thompson as Member of the Licensing Committee and the subsequent vacancy on the Licensing Sub Committee B, and the appointment of Councillor Sheila Peacock to fill the resultant vacancy on the Licensing Committee, as confirmed by Full Council on 22 February 2010 in accordance with the Council’s Constitution.

ii)                  That Members agree to the variation of the Membership of the existing Licensing Sub Committee B by the inclusion of Councillor Peacock to fill the vacancy arising from Councillor Thompson’s resignation from the Licensing Committee.

The meeting closed at 19:34hrs.