Issue - meetings

(Director of Corporate Support Services) To consider the attached report (LSC-001-2011/12).

The Assistant Director (Legal Services) presented a report concerning street trading consents in Honey Lane, Waltham Abbey.

The Assistant Director stated that in 2009, the Licensing Committee had passed a resolution designating the whole of Honey Lane as a prohibited street, for the purposes of street trading in accordance with the Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1982. This was made at the request of Waltham Abbey Town Council because of safety concerns between the two motorway access roads. Since then, a burger van had started to trade from the car park of a public house and was not causing any obstruction, but the prohibited street status also applied to those areas which the public could access on the street. Therefore, the Council could not grant consent for the burger van to continue trading in its current location and enforcement action was being considered. It was felt that only the section of Honey Lane between the two motorway accesses should be designated as a prohibited street and that the rest of Honey Lane should be designated as a consent street This would enable each application for a street trading consent to be considered on its merits.

Recommended:

(1)        That, provided no representations opposing the designation be received during the statutory consultation period, the designation of the parts of Honey Lane which were not between the two motorway accesses as a consent street for street trading be recommended to the Council for approval; and

Resolved:

(2)        That the proposed designation be referred back to the Licensing Committee for further consideration if any representations opposing the designation be received during the statutory consultation period.

To consider the attached report.

The Assistant Solicitor presented a report concerning Street Trading on Honey Lane in Waltham Abbey.

The Assistant Solicitor reported that, following a request from the Town Council, the Committee had decided at its previous meeting to undertake a consultation with a view to making the whole of Honey Lane in Waltham Abbey a prohibited street under the Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1982. This would mean that no street trading of any type could take place along Honey Lane. A public notice had been placed in the local newspaper on 6 August, and by the end of the consultation period on 10 September 2009 there had been only a single response from Essex County Council stating that they had no objection. If the Committee was minded to continue then further public notices would be displayed in the local newspaper, with the order taking effect from 30 November.

The Committee queried whether the whole of Honey Lane would need to be made a prohibited street. It was felt that possibly only the area between the two motorway roundabouts, known as Skillet Hill, would need to be prohibited. However, it was confirmed that the whole of Honey Lane had been included in the Committee’s previous decision, and that to further amend the area to be covered would necessitate beginning the process again. The Committee felt that the order should make reference that it included the area known as Skillet Hill. The Assistant Solicitor confirmed that a similar process would need to be followed if the prohibited street status was to be revoked.

RESOLVED:

That the whole of Honey Lane, including that area known as Skillet Hill, be made a prohibited street under the Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1982 with effect from 30 November.