What happened to this consultation?
Proposed changes
We asked for your feedback on our proposed increase to the fees we collect from licencing services under the Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act 2012.
In 2017/18 the Alcohol Licencing service fees recovered by the Council covered 68 percent of the licensing cost with the additional 32 percent being made up from rates.
The Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act 2012 allows the Council to collect fees to recover the total costs for its alcohol licencing functions.
Without an increase in 2019/20 we expect that fees will only cover approximately 60 percent of our costs with the balance paid by rates.
The Council is proposing to increase the level of the fees to recover 85 percent of the costs incurred by the Council to administer alcohol licencing. Any remaining costs will continue to be subsidised by rates.
This increase is planned to be made over a 2-year period.
This proposed bylaw only contains an increase in fees to achieve approximately 71 percent cost recovery and a subsequent fee increase to achieve the full 85 percent cost recovery will be subject of further consultation.
Proposal documents