Decision details

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

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

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.