Renfrewshire Licensing Forum

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Scottish licensing law requires that all councils set up a licensing forum for their area. Forums must be made up of between five and twenty members, with the actual number of members decided by each council. Renfrewshire Council have agreed that their licensing forum will have seventeen members.

The members of the Renfrewshire Licensing Forum are:

• Divisional Commander of Strathclyde Police
• Gordon Lethorn - representing local residents
• Iain Wilson - representing local residents
• Stuart Mitchell - representing local residents
• Kris Sinclair - representing young people
• Scott Mackay - representing young people
• Gordon Mulholland - representing young people
• Ian McMahon - licence holder
• Dean Slater - licence holder
• Wayne Smith - licence holder
• Alyson Finnigan - licence holder
• Liz Jamieson - Head of Planning and Community Services, Renfrewshire Council
• Peter Macleod - Director of Social Work, Renfrewshire Council
• Martin Brier - licensing standards officer, Renfrewshire Council

A further member is to be appointed by the local community health partnership.

The role of the forum is to keep the operation of the licensing system in Renfrewshire under review and to give advice and recommendations to the licensing board. This does not include reviewing, offering advice or making recommendations in relation to any particular application or case before the board.

The licensing board has the duty to 'have regard' to the forum's views and must offer reasons where it takes decisions against the advice of the forum. Find out more here about the Renfrewshire licensing board.

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Meeting dates and papers for the Renfrewshire Licensing Forum

Date of licensing forum meeting	Agendas	Minutes
2 October 2007	2 Oct 2007 (pdf - 440KB)	2 Oct 2007 (pdf - 12KB)
6 November 2007	6 Nov 2007 (pdf - 321KB)	6 Nov 2007 (pdf - 53KB)
11 March 2008	11 March 2008 (pdf - 4.22MB) Warning! This is a large file and may take some time to download with dialup internet access.	11 March 2008 (pdf - 60KB)
10 June 2008	10 June 2008(pdf - 180KB)	10 June 2008 (pdf - 39.7 KB)
9 September 2008	9 September 2008 (pdf - 132KB)
10 December 2008	10 December 2008 (pdf - 76KB)

Copies of the board report setting up the Renfrewshire Licensing Forum and its constitution are provided here:

Renfrewshire Licensing Forum - report (pdf - 26KB)
Constitution of Renfrewshire Licensing Forum (pdf - 166KB)

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For more information, please email: committee services.cs@renfrewshire.gov.uk or phone 0141 840 3229.

Use this website link for more information about Local Licensing Forums in Scotland.

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