Decision details

(i)To propose and agree new fees and charges relating to pavement licensing functions (non-executive function)
(ii)To propose and agree new fees and charges relating to primate licensing functions (non-executive function)

The proposed new fees and charges relating to North Yorkshire Council’s pavement and primate licensing is approved, as set out below:

Pavement licence (grant), two years £400
Pavement licence (renewal), two years £305

Primate licence (new or renewal), three years £440
Primate licence (variation) £170

The Council is expected to conduct regular reviews of licence fees to ensure that, where statutory powers exist, the cost of the licensing regime is recovered from applicants and licence holders.

The Council may consider retaining the existing licence fees for pavement licences. However, the fees set by the predecessor authorities vary significantly from £0 to £100, and the service would be running at a loss, and recovered unfairly elsewhere. Any failure to recover costs permitted by statute would require an unnecessary subsidisation of the licensing regime at the expense of the Council’s taxpayers.

The proposed fee for primate licensing is the first fee to be set for this new type of licence.