Agenda item

Report of the Director of Markets and Consumer Protection.

NB: This report will have been considered by the Resource Allocation Sub-Committee earlier this day and is also to be considered by the Planning and Transportation, Port Health and Environmental Services and the Culture Heritage and Libraries Committees.

The Committee considered a report of the Director of Markets and Consumer Protection requesting funding from Bridge House Estate to the cover the cost of an additional temporary dedicated Licensing Officer to undertake enforcement activities on the City’s Bridges at a cost of £100k over a two-year trial period.

RESOLVED – that:-

1.     approval be given to the provision of £100,000 from the Bridge House Estates Fund to fund the cost of a temporary dedicated Licensing Officer to undertake enforcement activities on the City’s Bridges for a trial period of two years; and  

2.     it be noted that a review would be undertaken prior to the end of the two-year trial period.