Issue - meetings

Report of the Cabinet Member Development and Safety

RESOLVED THAT

1.    the proposed changes to the Statement of Principles be noted; and

2.    the attached revised draft of the three year Statement of Principles be approved for the purpose of consultation with all relevant parties; and

3.    subject to no substantive amendments being made following consultation, Council be recommended to adopt the revised Statement of Principles.

The Cabinet Member Development and Safety, Councillor McKinlay, introduced the report.  The report explained that the Gambling Act 2005 requires that the council produce, consult on and publish a statement of the principles that they propose to apply when exercising their functions under the Act. The Act also requires that the Statement of Principles should be kept under review and must be re-published at least every three years. Cheltenham Borough Council published its existing Statement of Principles in October 2012 and the Statement is now due to be reviewed and a new Statement of Principles will need to be published to take effect no later than January 2016.

The Cabinet Member emphasised that with only 20 licensed gambling premises in Cheltenham, there were few problems arising from gambling in the town.

RESOLVED THAT

1.    the proposed changes to the Statement of Principles be noted; and

2.    the attached revised draft of the three year Statement of Principles be approved for the purpose of consultation with all relevant parties; and

3.    subject to no substantive amendments being made following consultation, Council be recommended to adopt the revised Statement of Principles.