Issue - meetings

To consider a report detailing the additional consultation responses received
in relation to the draft policy on the licensing of sexual entertainment venues
and asks the Committee to determine the content of the policy and to determine
the fee levels to apply in relation to sexual entertainment venue applications

The Committee considered a report regarding the responses received following a further period of consultation on the draft policy on the licensing of sexual entertainment venues, which had been amended by the Committee at its meeting on 10 January 2011.

As requested by the Committee at its meeting on 10 January 2011, the report also detailed the time and costs involved in the processing of applications for sexual entertainment licences.

RESOLVED

(a) That the draft policy on the licensing of sexual entertainment venues be approved, subject to the following amendments:

(1) that the words ‘application for a licence’ in the last sentence of condition 16(a) be replaced with ‘first application for a licence and any current version with any subsequent application for grant, renewal, transfer or variation of a licence.’

(2) that condition 21 be amended to read: ‘Performers not currently performing shall not be in any public part of the Premises in a state of undress.’

(3) that condition 34 be amended to read as follows:

‘The Licence Holder shall at all times keep and maintain at the Premises a written record of the names, home addresses, dates of birth and National Insurance numberof all persons employed within the licensed premises whether upon a full time or part time basis, and shall upon request by an authorised officer of the Council make such records available for inspection to him.’

(4) that in paragraph 17 of the committee procedure ‘of’ be amended to ‘or’.

(5) that the committee procedure be amended to clarify that representatives of an objector may include an MP, local Councillor, legal representative or a friend, and to add to paragraph 1 the requirement for the Chairman to consider any request made by a party for another person to appear at the hearing.

(b) That the fee levels in relation to sexual entertainment venue applications be as follows:

new applications : £2,280

renewal applications : £1,140

transfer applications : £500

variation applications. £2,280