Issue - meetings

To consider an application for exemption from display of plates and removal of private hire vehicle conditions.

Note:  The meeting was adjourned from 11.50am to 12.02pm to enable Members of the Sub-Committee to view the vehicles in question.

The Sub-Committee considered a report regarding an application for exemption from display of plates and removal of private hire vehicle conditions for two vehicles.

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 for exemption from display of plates and removal of private hire vehicle conditions should be granted.

The applicants attended the hearing and made representations in respect of their 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 of the evidence, including the applicants’ oral representations, the following course of action had been agreed.

RESOLVED

(a)  That private hire vehicle licences be granted for the vehicles in question, subject to the amendment of condition 2.7 of the East Cheshire Borough Council Private Hire Vehicle Licensing Conditions, as they relate to tinted windows.

(b)  That exemption certificates be granted in relation to the vehicles in question which:

·        exempt the vehicles from the requirement to display the private hire vehicle licence identification plates issued by the Council.

·        exempt the private hire drivers from the requirement to wear/display the private hire driver’s identification badge.

Councillor P Whiteley (Chairman)