Decision Maker: Cabinet
Decision status: Recommendations Approved
Is Key decision?: Yes
Is subject to call in?: No
To consider the responses and approve the draft Taxi and Private Hire Licensing Policy 2021 following the consultation.
Full Council – 3 February 2022
RESOLVED that Cabinet recommends to Full Council on 3 February 2022 that:-
1.
The Hackney Carriage and Private Hire Licensing
Policy appended to the report be published in accordance with the
statutory requirements and adopted by the Council;
2.
That the Institute of Licensing Suitability Guidance
be adopted in its entirety;
3.
That the requirement for a driver medical report to
be produced every year from the age of 60 be retained;
4.
That the D4 medical reports from a company called
‘Doctors on Wheels’ be no longer accepted for the
reasons detailed within the report;
5.
That the application fee charged be non-refundable
on the grounds that the Council is permitted to charge for the
administration involved in the processing and granting of a
licence; and
6. That the topographical test be maintained as a means of ensuring that all licenced drivers have a good working knowledge of the area.
Publication date: 27/01/2022
Date of decision: 26/01/2022
Decided at meeting: 26/01/2022 - Cabinet
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