Agenda and minutes

RESOLVED – That Councillor G Wilkinson be appointed as Chair for the meeting.

1)  To highlight reports or appendices which:

a)  officers have identified as containing exempt information, and where officers consider that the public interest in maintaining the exemption outweighs the public interest in disclosing the information, for the reasons outlined in the report.

b)  To consider whether or not to accept the officers recommendation in respect of the above information.

c)  If so, to formally pass the following resolution:-

  RESOLVED – That the press and public be excluded from the meeting during consideration of those parts of the agenda designated as containing exempt information on the grounds that it is likely, in view of the nature of the business to be transacted or the nature of the proceedings, that if members of the press and public were present there would be disclosure to them of exempt information

2) To note that under the Licensing Procedure rules, the press and the public will be excluded from that part of the hearing where Members will deliberate on each application as it is in the public interest to allow the Members to have a full and frank debate on the matter before them.

Members were advised that an appendix to the report contained exempt information.

RESOLVED – That if necessary, in accordance with Regulation 4 of The Local Authorities (Executive Arrangements) (Meetings and Access to Information) (England) Regulations 2012, the public be excluded from the meeting during consideration of that part of the agenda designated as exempt on the grounds that it is likely, in view of the nature of the business to be transacted or the nature of the proceedings, that if members of the public were present there would be disclosure to them of exempt information so designated as follows:-

Appendix to the report is designated as exempt from publication in accordance with paragraph 10.4 (1, 2 & 3) of Schedule 12A(3) of the Local Government Act 1972 on the grounds that it contains information which relates to individuals, is likely to reveal the identity of an individual and relates to the business affairs of any particular person. As a consequence it is considered that the public interest in maintaining the content of the Appendix  as exempt outweighs the public interest in disclosing the information.

To disclose or draw attention to any disclosable pecuniary interests for the purposes of Section 31 of the Localism Act 2011 and paragraphs 13-16 of the Members’ Code of Conduct.

There were no declarations of disclosable pecuniary interests.

To consider a report of the Head of Elections, Licensing and Registration which sets out details of a sex establishment licence for the provision of sexual entertainment in the form of lap dancing at Silks, 2 Sovereign Place, Leeds, LS1 4SP.

(Report Attached)

The report of the Head of Elections, Licensing and Registration presented an application for the transfer of a Sex Establishment License for Silks, 2 Sovereign Place, Leeds.

It was reported that the application was to transfer the license from a limited company to a named individual and that as a Sexual Entertainment Venue this required determination by the Licensing Sub-Committee.

The applicant’s representative addressed the Sub-Committee.  It was reported that the individual concerned was the sole trader of the limited company and the application for the transfer was to achieve uniformity with other premises that they operated.  With regard to options available to the sub-committee for the determination of the license it was reported that were no mandatory grounds to refuse the license and that there had not being any previous contraventions with the operation of the licence at the premises.

Members were further informed that following the renewal of the licence in April 2016 that the premises now had an active daytime frontage with the ground floor converted for a nail and beauty salon.

The Licensing Sub-Committee carefully considered the report of the Head of

Elections, Licensing and Registration and the application itself. It also considered the representations made by the applicant’s representative at the hearing.

RESOLVED – That the application be for transfer be approved as applied for.