Agenda and minutes

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The Sub-Committee approved the new summary of procedure for dealing with Street Trading applications.

Following introductions, the Chairman confirmed that the Sub-Committee had read all of the paperwork associated with the Street Trading Consent application from Ollo Foods and were familiar with it.

The applicant, Mr Sharma, was invited to make his representation.  Mr Sharma stated the following, some of which was in response to questions and comments from the Sub-Committee:

·                  Ollo Foods had been trading from a mobile food catering ‘pod’ at the Friday and Saturday Market on North Street and at the monthly Farmers’ Market on the High Street.  As the North Street Market did not suits his needs, Mr Sharma sought a Street Trading Consent to trade for up to 28 days per year on the High Street outside the GAP clothing store where the footfall was greater and takings were up to six times higher.  Both managers of GAP had been consulted by Mr Sharma and as neither had raised any objection to the pod being located outside the store, he had submitted the application.

·                  There was a high turnover of fast food retailers at the North Street Market as there were insufficient customers to make trading there viable.

·                  The pod was a self-contained purpose built unit with a high food hygiene rating.

·                  Mr Sharma favoured a vacant pitch at the bottom of the High Street previously occupied by a baked potato seller.

·                  Mr Sharma had read the Council’s recently adopted new Street Trading Policy.

·                  The Sub-Committee’s wish to preserve the historic nature of the High Street was recognised.

The Licensing Team Leader informed the Sub-Committee that it had convened to consider an application for the grant of a Street Trading Consent in respect of a mobile food catering ‘pod’ to trade between the hours of 09:00 to 19:00 on Friday and Saturday for up to 28 days per year on the High Street, on the corner with The Shambles, outside GAP.  The application had been the subject of consultation from 21 March to 18 April 2018 and copies of it had been distributed to the Responsible Authorities and local ward councillors.  Representations had been received from the Council’s Economic Development Service, Street Scenes Operations Manager, Environmental Health (Food and Safety) Team, Parking Enforcement Service, and Waste, Fleet and Parking Services Manager on the grounds of trading clashes with High Street events when trading should not be permitted, potential additional litter caused and the disposal of any waste produced, public safety on the highway and the negative impact on the long standing and successful North Street Market.  A further representation had been received from Experience Guildford Business Improvement District (BID) on behalf of a manager of GAP objecting to the application on the basis of loss of custom on its busiest trading days.  In his written response to the representations, the applicant stated that he could negate some of the issues raised by limiting trading to the hours when the High Street was pedestrianised, providing a litter collection bin at the stall and rearranging trading days to avoid  ...  view the full minutes text for item 9.