Agenda and draft minutes

To appoint a Chair for the meeting.

Councillor Noakes was appointed Chair of the meeting.

To receive from Members, declarations of the existence of any disclosable pecuniary, or non-pecuniary, interests and the nature of those interests in relation to any agenda item. Please see Agenda Notes.

No declarations were made on this occasion.

To receive the report of the Head of Public Protection.

The Licensing and Enforcement Officer presented his report which requested that the Sub-Committee consider the appeal by Mr Aslantepe against an Officer refusal to renew a Street Trading Consent for a hot food unit which he had been operating in a lay-by off Innsworth Lane.

He referred Members to the standard set of criteria that had been agreed by the Council on 21 March 2013 and had been attached to his report as Appendix 1.

He advised Members that the trailer had been replaced by a van and circulated photographs of the vehicle and its proposed location.

The application to renew the Consent, which had been granted for a period of six months, had been the subject of a 14 day consultation. Six representations had been received and they were attached as Appendix 3 to the report.

Members were passed a petition of 343 signatories that had not been published as it contained some fictitious names and addresses and comments of an offensive nature.

Members noted the applicant’s letter attached at Appendix 5 to the report which outlined the reasons for which he believed that the Street Trading consent should be granted.

The Licensing and Enforcement Officer referred to two representations received after the consultation period which were attached to the report as Appendix 6.

The Applicant’s Agent, Mr Rod Navarrete, had no questions but advised that he had a further 116 signatories to the petition.

Councillor Randle asked if there had been any complaints from the Police or Environmental Health and was advised that there had been none.

Councillor Porter, a Ward Member for Longlevens, referred to his representation and expressed concerns regarding parking due to the proximity of the football pitch and the allotments. He advised that the football pitch had been let to Longlevens Football Club and would be used by youth teams between August and the end of April. This would generate extra traffic and the car parking for the sports area was limited.

He advised that he had received a number of complaints when the licence had first been granted which he had forwarded to Officers. He had received no further complaints after the first month of operation. He wished to be assured that the original objectors had been informed of this appeal.

Councillor Porter was advised that they had been contacted by e-mail, the secretary of the football Club had been sent a letter and the Secretary of the Allotment Holders Association had been contacted.

Councillor Porter advised Councillor Witts that the football pitch would be used from this summer as the Football Club had signed a lease. He also noted that the Football Club wished to install floodlights.

The Applicant’s Agent asked Councillor Porter if one parking space occupied by the hot food unit would make such a huge difference. Councillor Porter acknowledged that the unit occupied one spacer but customers drove to use the facility and space was required for pedestrian access to the unit. He believed that the situation could be  ...  view the full minutes text for item 44.