Agenda item

The Committee considered the question of whether two Private Hire Vehicle Licences should be renewed.  The question arose because it had come to the Council’s attention that there had been a conviction for a number of criminal offences in 2001, 2002 and 2007, these being matters that fell within the Council’s guidelines for the relevance of convictions. 

In addition, the applicant had not maintained the vehicles in accordance with the requirements of the licence.

After very careful consideration of information received from the Council’s Licensing Officers and representations made by the applicant and his representative, the Committee agreed as follows:-

Resolved: that

(a)  No action be taken on the convictions in view of the amount of time passed since the offences occurred;

(b)  A 6 month licence be issued for one vehicle; and

(c)  A full licence be issued for the second vehicle subject to passing the required tests.