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 reports on two cases relating to hackney

 carriage and private hire licensing.

 

 

4.2

The applicant in Case No. 03/21 informed the Licensing Service that he was not able to attend the meeting and requested that consideration of his application be deferred.

 

 

4.3

The applicant in Case No. 06/21 attended the meeting and addressed the Sub-Committee.

 

 

4.4

RESOLVED: That after consideration of the information contained in the case papers, and the information now reported, the cases now submitted be determined as follows:-

 

 

 

Case No.

Licence Type

Decision

 

 

 

 

 

03/21

Application to renew a Hackney Carriage and Private Hire Driver’s Licence

Defer consideration of the application to enable the applicant to attend a future hearing.

 

 

 

 

 

06/21

Application to renew a Hackney Carriage and Private Hire Driver’s Licence

(a) Grant a licence on the grounds that the Sub-Committee considers the applicant to be a fit and proper person to hold a licence but, given the circumstances now reported now reported, the licence be granted for the shorter term of one year and (b) the applicant be given a written warning as to his future conduct, to remain live for the term of the licence.

 

 

 

(Note: Councillor Joe Otten voted against the proposal to grant the licence in Case No. 06/21, and asked for his vote to be recorded.)