11-12/01 - Application for Exemption from the Requirement to Display Licence Plates on a Private Hire Vehicle and Removal of Private Hire Conditions
To consider an application for exemption from the requirement to display licence plates on a private hire vehicle and the removal of private hire conditions.
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Minutes:
The Sub-Committee considered a report regarding an application for a private hire vehicle licence, a request to waive condition 2.7 of the Private Hire Vehicle Conditions in relation to tinted windows, and a request to exempt the vehicle from the requirements to display signage and display licence plates to the front and rear of the vehicle, as required by conditions 7 and 8 of Cheshire East Council’s Private Hire Vehicle Licensing Conditions.
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 attended the hearing and made representations in respect of his 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 applicant’s oral representations, the following course of action had been agreed.
RESOLVED
(a) That a private hire vehicle licence be granted, subject to the vehicle passing an inspection at the Council’s approved test centre.
(b) That condition 2.7 of Cheshire East Council’s Private Hire Vehicle Licensing Conditions in relation to tinted windows be waived.
(c) That special condition 10 of Cheshire East Council’s Private Hire Vehicle Licensing Conditions be attached to the licence, thereby exempting the vehicle from the requirement to display signage (condition 7) and from the requirement to display licence plates to the front and rear of the vehicle (condition 8).