Agenda and draft minutes

Regulatory Committee
Monday, 24th April, 2017 7.00 pm

Venue: Civic Centre, High Road, Wood Green, N22 8LE. View directions

Contact: Felicity Foley, Principal Committee Co-ordinator

Items
No.	Item
242.	FILMING AT MEETINGS Please note 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. Minutes: Noted.
243.	Apologies for absence View the background to item 243. Minutes: Apologies for absence were received from Councillor Patterson.
244.	Urgent business View the background to item 244. The Chair will consider the admission of any late items of urgent business. Late items will be dealt with under the agenda item where they appear. New items will be dealt with at item below. Minutes: The Clerk informed the Committee that item 8 had been deferred, and the report which had published under this item was a different item which would be discussed under item 9 of the agenda.
245.	Declarations of interest View the background to item 245. 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 Minutes: None.
246.	Minutes PDF 774 KB View the background to item 246. To approve the minutes of the meeting held on 17 January 2017. Minutes: RESOLVED that the minutes of the meeting held on 17 January 2017 be approved as a correct record.
247.	PLANNING SERVICES WORK REPORT PDF 246 KB To follow Minutes: Emma Williamson, AD Planning, introduced the report as set out in the agenda pack. The following was noted during discussion of the report: - The building Control restructure had not been completed as there was still some negotiation to take place regarding salaries. It was expected that this would be completed within the next couple of months. - The decision not to send out consultation letters to residents regarding planning applications had been made two years ago, due to the low response rate. Information on applications would be available at the sites, on the website and on the Haringey phone app. The statutory obligation was to provide either a site notice or a consultation letter. RESOLVED that the report be noted.
248.	PLANNING PROTOCOL DISCUSSION To follow Minutes: Emma Williamson, AD Planning, informed the Committee that work would soon be undertaken on updating the current Planning Protocol and requested any comments that the Committee wished to make. Initial comments from Members was that it would be useful to have copies of the papers before site visits; that consideration should be given to any potential conflicts of interests when non-planning Members addressed the Committee; and that the papers on Major Applications and Delegated Decisions be for noting, with any questions directed to Officers outside of the Committee meetings. The Committee noted that a further report would be given at a future meeting.
249.	CHANGES TO THE LICENSING ACT 2003 PDF 1 MB To follow Minutes: This item was withdrawn from the agenda.
250.	New items of urgent business View the background to item 250. To consider any new items of urgent business admitted under agenda item 2 above. Minutes: Adoption of Street Trading Fees and changes under London Local Authorities Act 1990 Daliah Barrett, Licensing Officer, introduced the report as set out. This report was a follow up report from the January Regulatory Committee and Members were requested to approve the recommendations, which would trigger a further 28 consultation before the fees would be adopted. RESOLVED that the Street Trading Fees be adopted.
251.	Dates of future meetings View the background to item 251. 23 May 2017 6 June 2017 9 October 2017 22 January 2018 22 February 2018 Minutes: Noted.