Report of the Transactional and Licensing Manager is attached, marked 5.

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Consideration was given to the report of the Transactional and Licensing Manager to seek the approval for the designation of streets as Prohibited, Licence and Consent in accordance with Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1982. (copy attached to the signed minutes).

In response to questions from Members the Transactional and Licensing Manager outlined the appeal process available to applicants who were refused a licence and confirmed that the M54 had been included following a request from Highways England.

It was explained by the Transactional and Licensing Manager that if approved, the Street Trading policy would come into force on 1^st April 2018. She added that existing traders would be contacted in relation to the new policy prior to this date, however this process could not start until the policy had been considered by the Committee at the meeting on 13^th December 2017. It was agreed that a verbal report on progress in relation contacting traders to inform them of the new policy would be available at the Strategic Licensing meeting on 7^th March 2018.

RESOLVED:

1.    The Committee approved, with any necessary amendments, the designation of streets as set out in Appendix B of the report.

2.    The Committee instructed the Transactional and Licensing Team Manager to publish and serve the relevant notices, setting out the designation of streets, as required by Section 2 of Schedule 4 of the Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1982.

3.    That where there were representations that object to the designation of streets as set out in Appendix B the Committee instructed the Transactional and Licensing Team Manager to bring a further report before the Committee to enable those representations to be considered in accordance with Section 2 of Schedule 4 of the Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1982.

4.    That where no representations or only supporting or neutral representations were received, the Council resolved through delegated authority granted to the Strategic Licensing Committee, to pass a resolution designating the streets as set out in Appendix B with effect from 1 April 2018 and further instructed the Transactional and Licensing Team Manager to make the necessary arrangements as set out within Section 2 of Schedule 4 of the Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1982 to give effect to the designations.