The General Purposes Licensing Committee and the Licensing and Gambling Acts Committee will consider at their meetings on 10 February 2025, reports on fees and charges for the licensing functions falling within their remits.

The Agenda for the Licensing and Gambling Acts Committee is avalable here.

The Agenda for the General Purposes Licensing Committee is avalable here.

Cllrs Edward Mundy and Katherine Miles, the Committee Chairs, will propose the recommendations.

Recommendations: The General Purposes Licensing Committee and the Licensing and Gambling Acts Committee recommend that Council resolves to agree the relevant licence fees and charges for 2025/26.

The papers will be published as part of the Briefing Note.

Council considered the Licensing & Gambling Acts and General Purposes Licensing Committees’ recommendations to approve fees and charges for the licensing functions falling within their remits as set out in agenda items 6a, 6b, 6c and 6d and repeated in the budget papers at item 9 Appendix 7.

Councillor(s) Miles and Mundy, the Committee Chairs presented the reports and supported the recommendations to Council. Councillor(s) Smowton and Muddiman, respectively, seconded the recommendations.

On being put to the vote Council resolved to agree the relevant licence fees and charges for 2025/26 as set out in Items 6a, 6b, 6c and 6d (and repeated in the relevant sections of Item 9, Appendix 7).