Issue - meetings

The Board received a report from the Strategic Director – Enterprise, Community and Resources, in which the Council’s Regulatory Committee recommended that Executive Board adopts a Council Policy on the limit of the number of Hackney Carriage Vehicles licenced within the Borough.

The Board heard that this Policy was considered by the Regulatory Committee at its meeting on 2 September 2020, following a refusal by the Committee to issue an individual with additional licences, which resulted in the individual appealing the decision at the Crown Court.  The Court had ordered that an ‘unmet demand survey’ be carried out (attached at Appendix 1) and that the application be re-heard.  It was noted that the survey demonstrated that the Committee was correct in concluding that there was no significant unmet demand in the Borough. 

The Board was advised that following this, it was now appropriate for the Council’s Policy on limiting the number of Hackney Carriage Vehicles be re-considered, as recommended by the Regulatory Committee (minute number REG 13 refers), which recommends that the limit should remain at 267 vehicles.

RESOLVED:  That the Policy change as recommended by Regulatory Committee (minute number REG 13 refers) that the Council maintains it current Policy of limiting the number of Hackney Carriage Vehicles licensed in the Borough to 267 be approved and adopted as Council Policy.