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Agenda
Part A
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Welcome and Announcements
The Chairman will welcome members of the public and Councillors and remind everyone to use microphones at all times when they are speaking. The Chairman will also explain action in the event of an emergency, mobile phones switched to silent, audio-recording of the meeting. Councillors who are members of the committee will introduce themselves.
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Substitutions
Councillors will be asked to say if they are attending on behalf of a Committee member who is absent.
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Urgent Items
The Chairman will announce if there is any item not on the published agenda which will be considered because it is urgent and will explain the reason for the urgency.
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Declarations of Interest
Councillors will be asked to say if there are any items on the agenda about which they have a disclosable pecuniary interest which would prevent them from participating in any discussion of the item or participating in any vote upon the item, or any other pecuniary interest or non-pecuniary interest.
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Minutes of Previous Meeting
The Councillors will be invited to confirm that the minutes are a correct record of the meeting held on 30 May 2018.
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RESOLVED that the minutes of the meeting held on 30 May 2018 be approved as a correct record.
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Have Your Say!
The Chairman will invite members of the public to indicate if they wish to speak or present a petition on any item included on the agenda or any other matter relating to the terms of reference of the meeting. Please indicate your wish to speak at this point if your name has not been noted by Council staff.
The Committee have been asked to consider and approve changes to the existing Market Regulations; in specific to a rule banning the sale of fur products.
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The Committee considered a report by the Assistant Director of Communities and were asked to agree the revised Colchester Charter Market Regulations. Mrs Clements addressed the Committee having been requested on the 21 March 2018 meeting to bring further information for consideration with regards to the inclusion of a specific banning of the sale of fur rule. Mrs Clements informed the Committee that this had originally started from an online petition by Respect For Animals asking all UK Markets to ban the sale of all fur products.
RESOLVED that –
The recommendation to continue to prohibit the sale of real fur using the existing rule 12.2 ‘No goods may be displayed or sold which in the opinion of the Markets & Street Trading Manager are inappropriate, dangerous or likely to cause offence to other traders or members of the public’.
This report sets out the current Work Programme 2018-2019 for the Licensing Committee.
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Mr Ruder addressed the Committee and asked them for their input with regards to the licensing work plan for the forthcoming year, after taking on the previous requests from the previous meeting.
RESOLVED that –
The Committee agreed with the itinerary for future meetings but also requested looking at cumulative areas, enforcement, a brief outline of all the areas Licensing covers and also the possibility of training to be added on before a meeting.
Part B
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Exclusion of the Public (not Scrutiny or Executive)
In accordance with Section 100A(4) of the Local Government Act 1972 to exclude the public, including the press, from the meeting so that any items containing exempt information (for example confidential personal, financial or legal advice), in Part B of this agenda (printed on yellow paper) can be decided. (Exempt information is defined in Section 100I and Schedule 12A of the Local Government Act 1972).
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