Venue: Room 3.1, 3rd Floor, 5 Strand, London, WC2 5HR. View directions
Contact: Jonathan Deacon
Email: jdeacon@westminster.gov.uk Tel: 020 7641 2783
Items
No. |
Item |
1. |
Membership
To report any changes to the membership.
Minutes:
Councillor Barbara Grahame was
unable to attend as she was unwell.
|
2. |
Declarations of Interest
To receive
declarations by Members and Officers of any personal or prejudicial
interests in matters on this agenda.
Minutes:
There were no declarations of interest.
|
3. |
Consideration of Street Trading Licence Applications for the Berwick Street Market PDF 4 MB
Minutes:
LICENSING SUB-COMMITTEE No. 6
Wednesday
27th September and Thursday 28th September 2017
Membership:
Councillor Tim Mitchell (Chairman) and Councillor Melvyn
Caplan. Councillor Barbara Grahame was
unable to attend as she was unwell.
Legal
Adviser:
Barry Panto
Policy
Adviser:
Chris Wroe
Committee Officer:
Jonathan Deacon
Presenting Officers: Rosalind
Hick and Robin Grey. Heidi Lawrance
also in attendance.
Applicant
Aaron Lee (company name –
Budy’s Bao Bao)
|
Nature of
application
Preferred Pitch –
1130. Alternative pitch(es) considered – none.
Trading days – Monday to
Saturday
Type of commodity – hot
takeaway food
Description of commodity
– Asian (East), Chinese, Street Food.
|
Decision:
Mr Lee’s application was
one of forty four submitted for new
street trading licences at Berwick Street Market. In reaching a
decision, the Licensing Sub-Committee took account of all the
details in the report, including the summary of each application
and the officers’ scoring based on the criteria set out in
the report; any supplementary information provided by each
applicant within the report; and any additional submissions made by
applicants who attended the hearing to make oral representations.
Mr Lee did not attend the hearing. The Sub-Committee considered all
the applications before reaching its final determination and
exercised a wide discretion so as to allocate as far as possible in
accordance with policy and the criteria set out in the report. In
some cases the Sub-Committee did not
entirely agree with the scoring in the report as it was considered
that criterion 2 was vague in its description and criterion 3 was
difficult to interpret accurately, especially as so many of the
applications involved the sale of food. The Sub-Committee also took
into account the preferences expressed for a particular pitch and,
in allocating those pitches, it also had regard to what was being
sold (or would be sold) by other traders in adjacent
pitches.
The Sub-Committee granted Mr
Lee permission to trade at Pitch 1130 Monday to Saturday, subject
to the requirements set out in paragraph 2.1 of the Licensing
Sub-Committee report being satisfied.
In deciding to grant the application, the Sub-Committee took into
account that Mr Lee would be operating at the pitch Monday to
Saturday. In keeping with the criteria
set out in the report, the Sub-Committee was keen to score
applicants more highly if they applied for every day of the working
week. Operating on a Saturday would add
to the vibrancy of Berwick Street Market.
The Sub-Committee also took
into account that Mr Lee’s application did include some
diverse commodities which differed from what was on offer elsewhere
in the Market.
In granting the application,
the Licensing Sub-Committee wanted to stress that the licence was
granted to the individual applicant who had to make full personal
use of that licence. Although assistants could be engaged to help
out when the trader was temporarily absent, the trader was expected
to be present at the pitch most of the time.
|
|