Agenda item

Report of the Executive Director Environment.

The Committee considered a report of the Executive Director Environment which provided an overview of the legislative requirements to publishing a Cumulative Impact Assessment (CIA), the Covid-19 pandemic impact on CIAs, the City of London Corporation’s (the City) current approach on cumulative impact as set out in its Statement of Licensing Policy (SoLP), a summary of pre-pandemic work on cumulative impact undertaken by the licensing team, current problems associated with the City’s Night-Time Economy (NTE), and a draft potential plan for commencing research work to ascertain whether there is sufficient evidence to publish a CIA for the City.

The Chairman introduced this item with a point of clarification, which was that this item was correctly reported for information in the summary, however, it wrongly showed for decision in the agenda. The Chairman wanted to clarify that this was not for decision, and the intention of the Committee when this work was commissioned, was that it would be used to inform Members. Therefore, with Members approval, it would be taken as an information item. The Chairman pointed the Committee to useful things in the report such as the ability for an objector to raise a concern about cumulative impact areas, which they could do with or without the policy being in place.

Members wanted clarification that the recommendations stated in the report would not be actioned. The Chairman assured the Committee that this item was an information item, and that no recommendations would be actioned.

RESOLVED – That the report be noted.