Agenda item - Designation of a New Consent Street

Report of the Head of Planning and Public Protection (copy attached)

11.1    The Committee considered a report of the Head of Planning and Public Protection seeking amendment to the council’s existing street trading policy.

11.2    The Head of Regulatory Services, Mr Nichols explained that the Brighton & Hove City Council street trading policy had been introduced on 2 April 1998 and that subsequently on 26 November 2009, a revised street trading policy had been adopted. St the meeting of the Licensing Committee held on 23 June 2011 that policy had been confirmed by Committee as being current with the addition of guidelines for relevant convictions and further issue zone b trading consents. Officers had recently received a request from a farmers market operating in central Brighton, from a Ward Councillor and market organisers that could not be accommodated within and would require a change to the current policy.

11.3    RESOLVED – (1) That the Committee authorises the Head of Planning and Public Protection to publish notice of the council’s intention to resolve to designate Memorial Way in the Old Steine as a consent street (as set out in the map attached at Appendix D to the report and outlined in red); such notice to be published in the local newspaper and served to the Chief Officer of Police and Highway Authority to request necessary consent; and

            (2) That the Head of Planning and Public Protection report any representations arising to the next meeting of the Committee.