Green Bin Update
If you are signed up to our Garden Waste Service, collections finish on Friday, 13th December, 2024.
This is the last week of collections for the year.
Collections will recommence in the New Year from Monday, 13th January, 2024.
Apply to have tables and chairs on the highway under the Business and Planning Act 2020
The new Business and Planning Act 2020 proposes significant changes designed to help licensed premises to survive and then bounce-back from the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown.
The provisions include:
A new “Pavement Licence" regime, administered by the Licensing Service, which is designed to make it easier for premises in England to serve food and drink such as bars, restaurants and pubic houses to seat and serve customers outdoors through temporary changes to planning procedures and alcohol licensing.
The new licensing regime provides a fast-track procedure for the grant of an authorisation.
Pavement licences will have a limited duration and no licence will extend beyond 30 September 2023.
Current Licence Applications can be viewed by following the link below for related pages.
With the removal of restaurants, cafes, bars and public houses from the closure restrictions found in the Health Protection (Coronavirus Restrictions) (England) Regulations 2020 with effect from 4 July 2020, it was recognised that there was a pressing need to allow the hospitality sector cut through the existing red tape and offer an outdoor environment to customers. Although able to open, businesses are still required to operate safely. Restrictions remain on gatherings indoors. There is also a much needed corresponding economic benefit to the beleaguered hospitality sector being able to trade to the full extent possible given the inevitable constraints social distancing places on indoor capacity limits.
Before applying you must be able to ensure that you carefully read the eligibility criteria and the terms and conditions. This will determine whether you are able to meet the requirements and apply for a Pavement Licence.
Before you complete the application form, please note that that you will need to include documents to accompany the application.
These will include:
Please complete the application form, when you have everything in place.
On the same day that applicants submit the application and in order to comply with the ‘Act', you will be required to:
If the application contains all the required documentation, your application will be consulted upon with a number of consultees including:
Following consultation, the local authority must determine the application within 7 days, beginning with the first day after the public consultation ends. If the local authority does not determine the application within this timescale, the application is deemed to be automatically granted.
Please note: that any application submitted with incorrect or missing documentation will not be processed. Instead, you will be contacted by an officer and asked to re-submit the required documentation. It is also important to note that you will also be asked to remove the notice you may have displayed and re-advertise the notice when your application is deemed to be complete and when you are instructed to do so by an Officer.
All applications deemed to be served correctly will result in a site visit by an authorised officer of South Staffordshire Council. The officer will consider the suitability of the application along with any comments/representations. The Licensing Officer will determine whether or not to grant a Pavement Licence.
There is no appeal process against the Council's decision to refuse an application. In addition, the application fee will not be refunded.
Applicants need to be mindful of the fact that if the Licensing Service deems it appropriate and necessary, special conditions can be added to any granted licence. In addition, Mandatory Conditions will form part of the licence.
Ensure you follow the guidance on working safely.
All licences granted will expire on 30 September 2023.