Decision details

To consider a variation to the current discretionary general licence fees for 2026/27.

The proposed variation to fees and charges relating to the Council’s animal welfare, scrap metal, sex establishment, street trading and pavement licensing functions, is approved with effect from 1 April 2026.

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. However, 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.