Issue - meetings

To receive the report of the Principal Licensing Officer in respect of adoption of the LACORS suggested conditions for home boarding of animals for all future applications.

RECEIVED the report of the Principal Licensing Officer

NOTED

1. The introduction by the Principal Licensing Officer, including:

a.    The set of conditions applied to animal boarding establishments are currently the same for both commercial premises and home boarding establishments. It is recognised that the different premises types are substantially diverse and therefore each type would benefit from specific conditions.

b.    LACORS (the Local Authorities Coordinators of Regulatory Services) provides model licence conditions for Authorities to adopt. Officers use them already whilst carrying out inspections as best practice. These conditions need to be formally adopted as conditions to be applied to the licences.

c.    There is no requirement for the authority to consult with licence holders, however, the conditions have been circulated with current licence holders and comments received from them assisted with the revision of conditions, as set out in the report.

2. Members debate and responses to questions raised, including clarification needed in respect of  whether conditions should apply for the training of ‘guide dogs’ and ‘hearing dogs’.

AGREED that the Licensing Committee agreed the adoption of the LACORS suggested conditions for home boarding of animals for future applications, set out in Appendix C to H of the report.

The Chair thanked all those in the Licensing Team for their work in keeping the Borough a safer place to be.  He also thanked Cllr Derek Levy for his contribution to the work of the Committee over the years and that his knowledge of the work carried out by the Committee will be missed greatly.