Issue - decisions

Further to Minute 140 (12 October 2004), received a final draft of the Council’s Licensing Policy and a summary of the responses to the consultation exercise on the earlier draft version.  The Council is required to formally adopt a Licensing Policy by 7 January 2005.

Agreed, in order for the Council to meet its new responsibilities under the Licensing Act 2003, to:

1. Note the report and the responses to the consultation exercise;

2. Recommend the Assembly to formally adopt the Licensing Policy as appended to this report; and

3. Note that the approved Licensing Policy will be submitted to the Plain English Campaign for crystal marking.