Agenda and minutes

1.

Minute of Previous Meeting of 17 September

To note that on page 3, the data referred to by Chris Littlejohn had come from the Information Services.

To otherwise approve the minute as a correct record.

N/A

2.

Matters Arising

The Convener welcomed Ken Eddie back to the Forum following his illness.

LSO Report to Licensing Board

Tara-Erin Gilchrist advised that the report was still awaiting approval and had not yet been to the Licensing Board.  She suggested that it would be available to include on the Forum agenda for February.

Engagement with Community Councils

The Convener reported that he, Heather Wilson and Shamini Omnes had attended a recent meeting of the Community Council Forum.

Joint Meeting of Licensing Board and Local Licensing Forum

The Convener advised that a letter had been sent to the Clerk to the Licensing Board to ask about the discussions at the joint meeting about the inclusion of an aspirational statement, and a response was awaited.  He also advised that at a recent meeting he had attended in Glasgow, the Scottish Government presentation had particularly referred to the inclusion of aspirational statements in licensing policy.

Licensing Objective 4 – Update from NHS and ADP – Services Information Booklet

The Convener advised that DA (formerly known as Drugs Action), the new local alcohol service, was to be launched in January 2015 and Emily Queen and Heather Wilson could liaise around promoting this in documents such as the Services for Homeless booklet.

To note that the LSO report to the Licensing Board should be available for the LLF meeting in February.  This could be included as part of the presentation from Diane / Tara-Erin in February.

Noted.

Noted.  For update at next meeting in February.

Noted.

S Dunsmuir – for agenda

S Kelman

3.

Membership Updates

Steph Dunsmuir advised that the Youth Council had not been in touch to provide details of their new member, as had been agreed at the previous meeting.  She undertook to contact them again to ask for details.

Steph Dunsmuir to contact the Youth Council in relation to their membership on the Forum.

The Convener noted that there was no representative from the Police in attendance and undertook to raise this outwith the meeting.

S Dunsmuir

4.

Community Councils

The Forum welcomed Karen Rennie, Community Council Liaison Officer to the meeting.  Karen spoke about the various issues which had been raised with her by Community Councils, particularly around the consultation on applications from the Licensing team.  She explained that Community Councils received a letter with notification about applications, but this did not include the application itself.  Karen advised that she was following this up with the Licensing team to try to get more detailed information for Community Councils.  She had also suggested that the information should be issued to Community Councils electronically to enable them to circulate it amongst members more quickly.

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