Issue - meetings

To consider a report on the responses received to proposals to vary the licence fees payable in connection with licences for hackney carriage and private hire drivers, vehicles and operators

The Committee considered a report which detailed objections received in response to proposals to increase the licence fees payable in connection with licences for hackney carriage and private hire drivers, vehicles and operators.

The fees charged by the Council for licences relating to hackney carriage and private hire vehicles, drivers and operators had been set by the Licensing Committee on 20 July 2009.  At a meeting on 7 March 2011, the Committee had resolved to authorise the Borough Solicitor to publish a notice of proposed variations to the licence fees charged in relation to licences for hackney carriage and private hire vehicles, drivers and operators.  Objections to the proposals had been received within the consultation period and the matter had been referred to the Licensing Committee for determination.

RESOLVED

(a) That the variation of (i) the fees for licences relating to private hire vehicles and operators across the Borough; and (ii) the fees applicable to hackney carriage proprietors (vehicle) and joint drivers licences in each of the three hackney carriage zones, as set out within the notice attached at Appendix A to the report, be approved.

(b) That the variations to the fees shall come into force with effect from 27 June 2011.