Issue - meetings

Report of the Deputy Chief Executive (Community Direction) attached.

Members were given the licensing requirements of the Scrap Metal Dealers Act 2013 and asked for their approval for the scheme of delegation and licensing fees.

Members were also presented with the facts concerning scrap metal and background history as to how the increased value of metal had caused a growing problem of metal thefts in the whole of the U.K. They were given a comprehensive outlay of what the new licences would entail, how visible the new plates would be and associated licence costs.

Members were asked to consider the following recommendations:

(a)        agree that the Executive considers this report with a recommendation that charges be introduced as shown at Appendix 2

(b)        that all contested applications be considered by a Licensing Panel made up of three members of the Licensing Regulatory Committee;

(c)        that both the designations of Authorised Officers under the Act, as set out in paragraph 3.25, and the Scheme of Delegation as set out at Appendix 1 be considered and agreed by Council. 

On the motion of Cllr Witherford, seconded by Cllr Gould, it was

RESOLVED – The above recommendations be agreed.