10-11/18 - 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 a request to grant a Private Hire Vehicle Licence in relation to a Volkswagen Caravelle People Carrier; (ii) to exempt the vehicle from the requirement to display signage as required by Condition 7 of the Cheshire East Borough Council Private Hire Vehicle Licensing Conditions; (iii) to exempt the vehicle from the requirement under Condition 8 to display licence plates to the front and rear of the vehicle; and (iv) to approve the waiver of Condition 2.7 as it relates to tinted windows.
The applicant 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 and written representations, the following course of action had been agreed.
RESOLVED –
The Committee determined to approve the grant of a private hire vehicle licence to the Volkswagen Caravelle subject to the removal of the standard condition 2.7 (tinted windows) and subject to otherwise passing the vehicle inspection from the Council’s approved test centre.
The Committee had also been asked to consider the application of special condition 10 of the Private Hire Vehicle Conditions to this vehicle. The Committee took into account the business case provided by the applicant and the fact that he has been successfully operating ‘exempt vehicles’ under Special Condition 10 of the Councils Private Hire Vehicle Conditions since 2003.
The Committee determined to attach special condition 10 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).
In accordance with special condition 10, the notice of grant should be carried in the vehicle at all times and the identification badge supplied by the Council should be displayed in the windscreen of the vehicle.