Agenda item

Hackney Carriage and Private Hire Licensing - Individual Cases

Report of the Chief Licensing Officer.

 

 

*(NOTE: The report at item 5 in the above agenda is not available to the public and press because it contains exempt information described in paragraphs 1 and 2 of Schedule 12A to the Local Government Act 1972 (as amended))

 

 

 

 

Minutes:

4.1

The Chief Licensing Officer submitted details in respect of two cases relating to hackney carriage and private hire licensing.

 

 

4.2

The applicant in Case No. 88/19 did not attend the hearing and, on the basis that he had offered no explanation for his non-attendance, the Sub-Committee agreed to consider the case in his absence.

 

 

4.3

The applicant in Case No. 89/19 did not attend the hearing and, on the basis that he had offered no explanation for his non-attendance, the Sub-Committee agreed to consider the case in his absence.

 

 

 

Case No.

Licence Type

Decision

 

 

 

 

 

88/19

Application for an extension of a Private Hire Vehicle Licence

(a) Grant a licence on the grounds that the applicant has provided sufficient evidence to convince the Sub-Committee that there are exceptional reasons to deviate from the current policy on the age limit of vehicles and (b) the granting of the licence be subject to the production of an Emissions Test to Euro 6 standard to the Licensing Service, and be valid until the date of the next MOT test to be carried out in February, 2020 after which delegated authority is given to the Chief Licensing Officer to further grant a licence until August 2020 subject to that test being passed.

 

 

 

 

 

89/19

Application for a Hackney Carriage Vehicle Licence

Refuse to grant a licence on the grounds that the applicant has not provided sufficient evidence to convince the Sub-Committee that there are exceptional reasons to deviate from the current policy on the age limit of vehicles.