Decision - Licence fees 2024/2025

Setting licensing fees where LA has discretion to do so for next financial year

RESOLVED: That Committee: 1. Approved the following licence fees for 2024/25: · Taxi Licence fees - as set out in Appendix 1. · Sex Entertainment Venues and Sex Establishments fees – as set out in Appendix 2. · Street Trading fees – as set out in Appendix 2. · All Gambling Act 2005 fees – as set out in Appendix 2. · Body piercing – as set out in Appendix 2. · All Animal Activity Licences fees - as set out in Appendix 3. A list of agreed fees for 2023/24 and proposed fees for 2024/25 is included in Appendices 1-3. Note: If the above recommendations are not agreed, or if the committee wishes to amend the recommendations, then the item will normally need to be referred to the Strategy, Finance & City Regeneration Committee meeting on 9 February 2024 to be considered as part of the overall 2024/25 budget proposals. This is because the 2024/25 budget proposals are developed on the assumption that fees and charges are agreed as recommended and any failure to agree, or a proposal to agree different fees and charges, will have an impact on the overall budget proposals, which means it needs to be dealt with by Strategy, Finance & City Regeneration Committee as per the requirements of the constitution. This does not fetter the committee's ability to make recom mendations to Strategy, Finance & City Regeneration Committee.

The appendix sets out proposed taxi licence fees for 2024-25 compared with the agreed 2023-24 fees. Proposed increases range from 6.7% for a dual drivers licence to 323.1% for a hackney carriage vehicle transfer fee.