Decision details

To approve the council’s designated regulatory services to introduce a charge based business advice service under the Primary Authority statutory framework.

(i)         that approval be given to the adoption of the Primary Authority Partnership scheme under the Regulatory Enforcement and Sanctions Act 2008 (RESA);

(that authority be delegated to the Director of Environment and Neighbourhood Services to enter into Primary Authority agreements with businesses and to request nomination of partnerships to the Better Regulation Delivery Office under the provisions of Section 25 of the Regulatory Enforcement and Sanctions Act 2008;

(iii)       that the Council adopt a system of providing up to seven hours’ regulatory advice for all businesses free of charge, and the introduction of a charge based scheme on a cost recovery basis for those that require more than seven hours’ of advice as detailed in the report from the Director of Environment and Neighbourhood Services;

(iv)       that the Council adopt the proposed hourly charging rates of £51.54 (Annual Contract) and £64.43 (Pay As you Go contract) and, thereafter, to increase these rates on an annual basis on 1^st April each year by the annual change in the Retail Price Index (RPI) for January of the year concerned.