Agenda item

Consideration of the Ongoing Suitability of a Hackney Carriage and Private Hire Driver

Minutes:

The Chair welcomed the Licence Holder to the meeting and introductions were made.

 

The Sub-Committee considered the report of the Corporate Director of Neighbourhoods and Climate Change to determine the ongoing suitability of the Licence Holder to continue to be licensed as a Joint Hackney Carriage and Private Hire Driver (for copy see file of minutes).

 

The Licensing Enforcement Officer presented the report and the Licence Holder, Members and Officers were given the opportunity to ask questions of the Officer.

 

The Licence Holder was then invited to address the Sub-Committee and responded to questions from Members and Officers.

 

After all parties were given the opportunity to sum up, the Sub-Committee retired to deliberate the application in private at 10.55am.

 

After re-convening at 11.15am the Chair delivered the Sub-Committee’s decision.

 

Resolved: That the Licence Holder’s Hackney Carriage and Private Hire Driver’s Licences be suspended for a period of two weeks.