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Housing and Community Safety Legal Actions

Meeting: 22/12/2014 - Decision Session - Executive Member for Economy and Strategic Planning (Item 52)

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The purpose of this report is to enable the Cabinet Member for Communities to review the results of legal actions (prosecutions, cautions and fixed penalties) undertaken by Environmental Health, Trading Standards, Licensing, the Regional Scambuster Team, and the National Trading Standards eCrime Centre as well as action taken by Housing Services for the period 1 April 2014 to 30 September 2014

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Decision:

Resolved:  That the report be noted.

 

Reason:     So that the Cabinet Member reviews formal enforcement activity undertaken by Environmental Health, Trading Standards, Licensing, the Regional Scambuster Team, and the National Trading Standards eCrime Centre and Housing Services.

Minutes:

The Cabinet Member considered a report which enabled her to review the results of legal actions (prosecutions, cautions and fixed penalties) undertaken by Environmental Health, Trading Standards, Licensing, the Regional Scambuster Team, and the National Trading Standards eCrime Centre as well as action taken by Housing Services for the period 1 April 2014 to 30 September 2014.

 

The Cabinet Member was informed about work carried out before legal action was pursued. It was highlighted that legal action was only taken when previous work with customers to modify behaviour had failed.

 

The Cabinet Member thanked all the teams for all the work they had done.

 

Resolved:  That the report be noted.

 

Reason:     So that the Cabinet Member reviews formal enforcement activity undertaken by Environmental Health, Trading Standards, Licensing, the Regional Scambuster Team, and the National Trading Standards eCrime Centre and Housing Services.


 

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