Decision Maker: Assistant Director - Environmental Health Service
Decision status: Recommendations Approved
Is Key decision?: No
Is subject to call in?: No
To introduce charging for inspection re-scores
available through the Food Hygiene Rating Scheme and for the Animal
Activity Licensing inspection regime.
A charge of £170 to be levied for each accepted food hygiene
application.
For boarding and day care establishments, breeding of dogs and
selling animals a charge covering an average of 5 hours work would
be appropriate for the assessment of the application, inspection
and post inspection report.
For Horse Riding Establishments, hiring of horses, a rate of
£250 would cover the costs of re-inspection and assessment
activity.
For licensed Zoos, a charge of £250 for the first day, and
£34 per hour (or part of an hour) thereafter will be
chargeable.
Proposed fees and charges to be kept under review and any proposed
changes considered during annual budget processes.
The Council is required to undertake specific
Food Hygiene inspections and licensing inspections for activities
involving animals.
Currently, re-inspections and follow up assessments are undertaken
free of charge.
The Council is able to charge for these activities.
The Animal Welfare licensing fees are based on a full cost recovery
model for the licensing process but do not account for additional
re-visits requested by a business.
Requests for rescores and revisits are likely to place a
significant additional burden on the Council.
The Council could maintain its current process
of undertaking requested re-inspection visits without
charging.
This option was rejected due to the potential to draw essential
resources away from statutory services, which put them at risk of
failure due to the potential high demand for
re-assessment.
Publication date: 23/11/2022
Date of decision: 17/04/2020
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