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Consideration of Street Trading Licence Applications for Strutton Ground Market

App

No

Ward /

Cumulative Impact Area

Site Name and Address

App

Type

Licensing Ref No.

1.

St James Ward

Strutton Ground Market,

Westminster,

London, SW1P 2JT

Permanent street trading licences in respect of 13 pitches on Strutton Ground Market

 

Minutes:

LICENSING SUB-COMMITTEE No. 6

Thursday 19th September 2019

 

Membership:           Councillor Jacqui Wilkinson (Chairman), Councillor Jim Glen and Councillor Aicha Less. 

 

Legal Adviser:                    Horatio Chance

Policy Adviser:                   Aaron Hardy

Committee Officer:             Tristan Fieldsend

Environmental Health:        Sally Fabbricatore

Presenting Officers:           Michelle Steward and Jonathan Russell-Lloyd

 

 

1)              CONSIDERATION OF STREET TRADING LICENCE APPLICATIONS FOR STRUTTON GROUND MARKET

 

1.1      The Sub-Committee considered applications for permanent street trading licences in respect of 13 pitches on Strutton Ground Market. On 20 March 2019 the Licensing Committee approved the strategy and process for determining applications. As part of the Strategy, the Licensing Service advertised the vacancies for Strutton Ground Market pitches between 1 June 2019 and 31 July 2019. All of the applications were reviewed against the criteria by officers from the Licensing Service, Environmental Health, and City Economic and Development teams who provided an initial score. Following their initial score the Applicants were invited to attend an interview to assist their applications.

 

1.2      Licensing received in total 13 applications from 11 applicants. Under the market strategy scoring criteria a trader was required to have a minimum score of 50% (out of a total of 185 points) or above to be recommended for the grant of a Street trading licence. An outline of each applicant is set out below along with the officers recommendation:

 

APPLICANT

PITCH

DESCRIPTION

SCORE

RECOMMENDATION

Corinne Plocki

1509

Sells a variety of hot French food

100

Grant

Kristina Wilshire

1503

Sells variety of hot and cold salads

145

Grant

Cristiano Meneghin

1502

Sells hot food e.g. burgers, steak, chicken and fries

161

Grant

Kim Smith

1506 & 1507

Sells salads and different ciabatta roll options

 

145

Grant

Dipen Patel

1513 & 1514

Sells hot food including curry, samosas and biryani

145

Grant

Nellie Katerina Tsilidis

1518

Sells hot food including Greek souvlaki, pitta bread, salads stews and soups

110

Grant

Zoya Bako

1511

Sells hot food including kebabs, pitta bread wraps and rice boxes

110

Grant

Jospeh Albitchino

1501

Sells Mediterranean hot food and cold beverages

145

Grant

Marcos Diaz Solis

1516

Sells hot food including tapas, omelettes and paella

155

Grant

Rury Fischelt

1504

Sells hot food including wraps/burritos, tacos and quesadillas

125

Grant

Daniele Sergio

131

Sells hot food including tuna and swordfish burgers, fried seafood and fish wraps

131

Grant

 

1.3      The Applicants present were asked to provide feedback on the new process and the Sub-Committee noted the comments received. The Chairman confirmed that these would be fed back to the Licensing Service to help inform the process for future applications and deliver best practice.

 

1.4      The Sub-Committee discussed the proposed additional conditions to be placed on each granted licence. The Applicants present confirmed that they were content with the additional conditions being imposed on each licence.

 

1.5      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 additional oral submissions made by each Applicant during the course of the hearing.

 

 

RESOLVED:

 

1)    That the Sub-Committee approve the recommendations of the applications as set out in paragraph 1.2 above; and

 

2)    That the following additional conditions be attached to each granted licence:

 

i)    The use of the following items will be prohibited for any licence holder selling fresh produce and/or take away food and beverages of any kind:

 

·       Plastic* take away food containers

·       Foil and aluminium take away food containers (this does not include aluminium foil)

·       Plastic* cutlery

·       Plastic* bags

·       Non-recyclable (e.g. plastic lined) hot drink cups

·       Plastic* lids of any kind (e.g. hot drink cup, soup, container)

 

*  This includes all types of oil-based plastics, including polystyrene but does not include bio-plastics such as Polyactic acid (PLA).

 

ii)        The licence holder must have a protective mat beneath their pitch to protect the highway from any damage.

 

iii)       All licence holders are required to clean their gazebo/s and associated pitch equipment at least once a year.

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