Decision details
Pavement Café Licence Fees
Decision Maker: Assistant Director Community Services
Decision status: Recommendations Approved
Is Key decision?: No
Is subject to call in?: No
Purpose:
To support the hospitality trade recovering
from COVID-19, remove the licence fee for pavement cafes. Time
limited to March 2021.
Financial/staffing/health & safety (incl virus transmission
risks)/service delivery impacts/other risks and impacts
considered:
Financial impact of an estimated £5,000.
Encouraging businesses to trade outside safely, supports national
guidance.
Equality Impacts:
Equality impacts are considered as part of each individual licence
application.
Decision:
To reduce pavement café licences to
free, time limited to 31 March 2021. Implementation 20 July
2020.
Reason: To support the hospitality sector.
Alternative options considered:
None.
Publication date: 23/11/2020
Date of decision: 17/07/2020