Agenda and minutes

Venue: Podium North, River Park House, 225 High Road, Wood Green, N22 8HQ

Contact: Philip Slawther 

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Items
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104.

FILMING AT MEETINGS

Please note that this meeting may be filmed or recorded by the Council for live or subsequent broadcast via the Council’s internet site or by anyone attending the meeting using any communication method. Although we ask members of the public recording, filming or reporting on the meeting not to include the public seating areas, members of the public attending the meeting should be aware that we cannot guarantee that they will not be filmed or recorded by others attending the meeting. Members of the public participating in the meeting (e.g. making deputations, asking questions, making oral protests) should be aware that they are likely to be filmed, recorded or reported on. 

 

By entering the meeting room and using the public seating area, you are consenting to being filmed and to the possible use of those images and sound recordings.

 

The chair of the meeting has the discretion to terminate or suspend filming or recording, if in his or her opinion continuation of the filming, recording or reporting would disrupt or prejudice the proceedings, infringe the rights of any individual or may lead to the breach of a legal obligation by the Council.

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The Cabinet Member referred those present to agenda Item 1 as shown on the agenda in respect of filming at this meeting, and Members noted the information contained therein’.

105.

APOLOGIES FOR ABSENCE

To receive any apologies for absence.

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None.

106.

Urgent Business

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 items 6 and 9).

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None.

107.

Declarations of interest

A member with a disclosable pecuniary interest or a prejudicial interest in a matter who attends a meeting of the authority at which the matter is considered:

 

(i) must disclose the interest at the start of the meeting or when the interest becomes apparent, and

(ii) may not participate in any discussion or vote on the matter and must withdraw from the meeting room.

 

A member who discloses at a meeting a disclosable pecuniary interest which is not registered in the Register of Members’ Interests or the subject of a pending notification must notify the Monitoring Officer of the interest within 28 days of the disclosure.

 

Disclosable pecuniary interests, personal interests and prejudicial interests are defined at Paragraphs 5-7 and Appendix A of the Members’ Code of Conduct

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108.

Application by Manning's Fairview to hire Priory Park for a family funfair between April and May 2019 pdf icon PDF 214 KB

 

This report seeks a determination of a park hire application made by Manning’s Fairview to hire part of Priory Park in order to stage a family funfair to run between 26th April and 6th May 2019.

 

The applications are required to be determined pursuant to the Council’s Outdoor Events Policy (the Policy), which was approved by Cabinet on 17th December 2013, and implemented on 7th January 2014.

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The Cabinet Member considered a report which sought determination of an application for the hire of Priory Park by Manning’s Fairview to hire part of the park from 26th April – 6th May 2019 for a funfair.

 

The Cabinet Member was advised that this was the sixth year that the event had taken place in the park and it was primarily aimed at younger children. In response to a question around the number of complaints received from the event in previous years, officers advised that there were very few, if any, and reassured the Cabinet Member that music volume was relatively low. The Cabinet Member sought clarification over the opening times for the funfair. In response, officers advised that it ran from 4pm to 9pm.

 

RESOLVED

 

That the Cabinet Member for Environment:

 

             I.        Noted that no comments were received from recognised stakeholders of Priory Park, in response to the event notifications being sent as part of the decision making process.

 

            II.        Authorised the Director of Environment and Neighbourhoods, to approve conditional in-principle agreement to hire Priory Park to the funfair operator for the event detailed in this report as set out in paragraph 6.5 of the report.

 

Reasons for decision

 

Under the terms of the Policy, applications of the type detailed in this report are required to be determined with the prior agreement of the Cabinet Member. 

 

If authority is given, then officers will give in-principle agreement to the Applicant for the event application to progress. The events will then be subject to discussions between the Applicant and the Council before final agreement is given.

 

The rejection of the application would have implications for the Parks Service budget and reduce the opportunity for reinvestment into Priory Park. It would also mean that the wider cultural and economic benefits to the borough were lost.

 

Alternative options considered

 

In adopting the Policy, the Council established its commitment to use the park for a limited number of funfairs and circuses each year. Accordingly, the only other alternative option which could be considered would be to reject the application. That option was rejected, on the grounds that the events did not fall within any of the grounds set out in paragraph 5.3 of the Policy for automatic refusal.

 

109.

New Items of Urgent Business

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

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N/A

110.

Exclusion of the Press and Public

Item 8 is likely to be subject to a motion to exclude the press and public be from the meeting as it contains exempt information as defined in Section 100a of the Local Government Act 1972 (as amended by Section 12A of the Local Government Act 1985); paragraph 3.

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RESOLVED

 

That the press and public be excluded from the remainder of the meeting as the items below contain exempt information, as defined under Paragraph 3, Part 1, Schedule 12a of the Local Government Act 1972.

111.

Application by Manning's Fairview to hire Priory Park for a family funfair between April and May 2019

To consider exempt information pertaining to agenda item 5.

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The Cabinet Member noted the information contained within the Exempt Part B of the report.

112.

ITEMS OF EXEMPT URGENT BUSINESS

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

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N/A