Agenda and minutes

            The Minutes of the meeting held on 29^th November 2017 having been circulated were signed as a correct record.

            The Committee considered an information report from the responsible authorities on issues arising from the carrying out of the Creamfields Event in August 2017.

            Members were advised that the purpose of the report was to present the facts from the viewpoint of the responsible authorities who have now dealt with several events.

            It was noted that reports on the event had been received from Cheshire Police and Halton Borough Council’s Environmental Health.

            It was agreed by the Chairman of the Committee that neither the Police nor Environmental Health would need to attend the meeting.

            RESOLVED:  That the reports from the responsible authorities be noted and that further reports be brought back to the Committee for information only.

PART II

In this case the Board has a discretion to exclude the press and public and, in view of the nature of the business to be transacted, it is RECOMMENDED that under Section 100A(4) of the Local Government Act 1972, having been satisfied that in all the circumstances of the case the public interest in maintaining the exemption outweighs the public interest in disclosing the information, the press and public be excluded from the meeting for the following items of business on the grounds that they involve the likely disclosure of exempt information as defined in paragraph 3 of Part 1 of Schedule 12A to the Act.

The Committee considered:

(1)  Whether Members of the press and public should be excluded from the meeting of the Board during consideration of the following items of business in accordance with Sub-Section 4 of Section 100A of the Local government Act 1972 because it was likely that, in view of the nature of the business to be considered, exempt information would be disclosed, being information defined in Section 100 (1) and paragraph 3 of Schedule 12A of the Local Government Act 1972; and

(2)  Whether the disclosure of information was in the public interest, whether any relevant exemptions were applicable and whether, when applying the public interest test and exemptions, the public interest in maintaining the exemption outweighed that in disclosing the information.

            RESOLVED: That as, in all the circumstances of the following item only of the Committee Agenda,  the public interest in maintaining the exemption outweighs the public interest in disclosing the information, members of the press and public be excluded from the meeting during consideration of the following items of business in accordance with Sub-Section 4 of Section 100A of the Local Government Act 1972 because it was likely that, in view of the nature of the business, exempt information would be disclosed , being information defined in Section 100 (1) and paragraph,3 of Schedule 12A of the Local Government Act 1972.

Case no. 703

            RESOLVED: That the Single Status Drivers Licence be suspended for a period of 1 month.

Case no. 704

            RESOLVED: That the Single Status Drivers Licence be suspended for a period of 1 month.

Case no. 705

            RESOLVED: That the Single Status Drivers Licence be suspended for a period of 3 months.