Issue - meetings

To consider an application for a hackney carriage vehicle licence and a request for exemption from a hackney carriage vehicle condition.

The Sub-Committee considered a report regarding a request to grant a Hackney Carriage Vehicle Licence in relation to a Citroen C4 Picasso registration JD08 JGV and to resolve whether:

                             i.                to resolve that the vehicle does not meet the Council’s Conditions, namely 1.5, and that there is no reason to deviate from the Council Policy and that the vehicle should not be licensed. OR

                            ii.                to resolve to waive Condition 1.5 of the Council’s Hackney Carriage Vehicle Licence Conditions Zone 3 Macclesfield  and therefore grant the Hackney Carriage Vehicle Licence.

The Sub-Committee was informed that the application fell within the Council’s policy for determination by the Sub-Committee. Accordingly the hearing had been convened to enable the Sub-Committee to determine whether the application should be granted.

The applicant, the applicant’s colleague and the applicant’s Solicitor attended the meeting and made representations in respect of the application.

After a full hearing of the application, and in accordance with the rules of procedure, the Chairman of the Sub-Committee reported that, after taking account of all the evidence, including the applicants oral representations, the following course of action had been agreed.

RESOLVED –

The Sub-Committee considered all the evidence and its own inspection of the vehicle and determined that the modified seats did meet the Council’s current minimum standards for Hackney Carriage vehicles and that there were no public safety reasons to deviate from these conditions. It therefore determined to grant the Macclesfield Zone 3 Hackney Carriage Vehicle Licence to carry six passengers.

(The meeting adjourned for a short break from 11.45am until 11.50am).