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Good morning everybody and thank you for joining us for this public statutory licensing committee. I need to advise you that today's meeting is a public meeting and we will be broadcast live via the council's website. Firstly I'm going to ask Donna, our committee clerk, to check that all attendees are present. Donna, over to you. Thank you chair. So do we have Councillor Butte. Yes. Councillor Wildman. Here. Councillor Brackenridge. Here. Councillor Harbinder Singh. Yes. Councillor Jane Francis. Present. Councillor Jenny Cocaine. Present. Councillor Rajpal Kaur. Present. Councillor Tarsim Singh. Councillor Jonathan Crofts. Present. And Councillor Bob Maddox. Present. Lovely. Thanks chair. Thank you. Please note that we have various lead officers also in attendance from service areas. May I remind everyone to keep their microphone on mute unless you've been invited to speak to and speak through the chair. If you wish to speak please press the right hand button on the microphone once before you speak, once again at the conclusion of your address. If you're referring to specific documents could you please clearly state the document and page number so everyone can follow. We're at item one now. Donna, do we have any apologies for absence? Yes chair. Apologies have been received from Councillor Asha Matu. Thank you. Thank you Donna. Decorations of interest. Does anyone have any decorations of interest? Thank you. Minutes from the previous meeting. These can be found at page three and four of your agenda pack. Does anyone wish to propose they are a correct and accurate, accurate account of what happened and can I have a seconder? I'll propose that they're an accurate record chair. I'll second it. Thank you everybody. Oh no yeah. From those minutes do we have any matters arising? No thank you. We're now on to agenda items five to eight minutes of statutory licensing subcommittees. These can be found on page five to twenty two of your agenda pack. Can I ask Councillor Allenwood if he would be willing to propose that the agenda items five to eight are correct and that Councillor Wildman to second the motion. Seconded chair. Thank you. Can we have a vote of all those in favour? All those against? Thank you. The minutes are agreed. We're now at item nine. Review into decision making 2023 to 2024 and the scheme of delegation for 2024 to 2025. These can be found on pages 23 to 48 of the agenda pack. To present the item the service manager for trading standards and licensing act Paul Doshorn. After Paul has finished if there are any questions we'll address them then. Over to you Paul. Thank you chair and through you. Good morning everyone. This is the annual review into the decision making of the previous year 23-24 and the approval from committee for the scheme of the delegation for 24-25. So it's a look back and some sort of necessary housekeeping. The report as you can see in front of you says that the system of decision making has remained unchanged now since 2012 and it splits the decisions into categories one two and three. The most contentious issues are dealt with at subcommittee or committee. Only the most routine matters are dealt with at officer or employee as we now call them levels. So the the scheme of delegation um sorry the decision making is essentially the same as it was last year in terms of its scope. I quickly jotted them up this morning and they were 70 decisions made last year under the licensing act and committee looked at 19. So 19 of those were made by committee. I think last year there were 68 decisions and 12 were made by committee. So that really is as or was last year. In terms of the the delegations these allow officers to be able to lawfully act under powers under legislation so they can carry out their day-to-day jobs. The scheme of delegation is essentially unchanged from that which it was last year except a change at page 28 in the bottom right hand corner and a change at page 33 in the bottom right hand corner where previously the commercial regulation manager had the power to authorize a licensing authority to be a responsible authority both in the licensing act and the gambling act. That's now changed to the service manager for trading stands and licensing act which is me. This is because the post of a commercial regulation manager has was vacated and has not been filled and I don't know what the arrangements are. In terms of a power it's not a very often used power. I've not known it to be used at all or exercised at all so it doesn't shouldn't mean a dramatic change to our method of operation but as several months have gone now since the commercial regulation manager left his post I thought it was a useful time to tidy up. The recommendations are before you one to four as are the items for noting and chair unless I can help you or members of the committee I propose to leave it there. Thank you. Thank you Paul. Do we have any questions? Councillor Francis. On page 31 under the occasional use notice the current delegation say no representations goes to the licensing and compliance officer but what if there are representations as there have been in other boxes of the grid? If there are no representations then it would go to the licensing compliance office as you say. If there are representations and it defaults to the higher level of decision making so it would be the the committee. It's not noted on there? No. Specifically thank you. Thank you. Thank you Councillor. Any more questions from anyone? No thank you. The statutory licensing committee is recommended to endorse and approve the proposals in section two of the report relating to category two decisions, endorse and approve the proposals in section two of the report relating to category three decisions, delegate category three decisions making powers of the director of resident services agree to receive further annual delegation update reports at the beginning of the municipal year and we're also to note that the statutory license committee is asked to note the schedule attached to appendix one to report which includes further proposed delegations from the director of resident services for 2024 2025. The schedule of employee decisions from 2023 to 2024 attached to appendix two to the report in relation to licensing authority as a responsible authority and the schedule of decisions for 2023 to 2024 attached at appendix three to the report in relation to magistrates and crown court appeals. Do I have a proposer and a seconder? I propose chair. Thank you Greg. Do we have a seconder? I'll second. Thank you Councillor. All those in favour please say aye. Aye. All those against that's good. Thank you that is carried. Thank you everybody for your participation. This brings the statutory licensing committee to a close. Thank you very much.