Issue - meetings

To consider a report by the Head of Planning and Public Protection (copy enclosed) detailing the priorities of the Licensing Section and presenting the committee’s forward work programme for approval.

RESOLVED that –

(a)       the regulation of Hackney Carriage Vehicles be removed from the Forward Work Programme for 2015/16, and

(b)       the Licensing Committee’s forward work programme and priorities for the Licensing Section for 2015/16 be approved.

A report by the Head of Planning and Public Protection was submitted (previously circulated) on the priorities of the Licensing Section together with the proposed work programme for the Licensing Committee for 2015/16.

Officers elaborated upon the priorities identified which had been included in the work programme together with a series of action plans including a timescale for completion over the next eighteen months.  In light of discussions at the recent member training event it was recommended that the regulation of hackney carriage vehicles be removed from the work programme.  Whilst accepting the reasons not to pursue a restriction on taxi numbers Councillor Joan Butterfield reiterated her concerns regarding ranks and advised that she would take the matter up directly with the Highways Department together with the impact of the proposal to introduce a programme of dimming street lighting in the county.

RESOLVED that –

(a)       the regulation of Hackney Carriage Vehicles be removed from the Forward Work Programme for 2015/16, and

(b)       the Licensing Committee’s forward work programme and priorities for the Licensing Section for 2015/16 be approved.

The meeting concluded at 11.45 a.m.