Issue - meetings

To consider a confidential report by the Head of Planning and Public Protection (copy enclosed) seeking members’ determination of an application for a licence to drive hackney carriage and private hire vehicles from Applicant No. 051260.

RESOLVED that the application for a hackney carriage and private hire vehicle drivers licence from Applicant No. 051260 be deferred to the committee’s next meeting.

[Councillor Cefyn Williams declared a personal interest and left the meeting during consideration of this item.  Councillor Barry Mellor (Vice Chair) took the Chair.]

A confidential report by the Head of Planning and Public Protection (previously circulated) was submitted upon –

(i)            an application received from Applicant No. 051260 for a licence to drive hackney carriage and private hire vehicles;

(ii)          officers having not been in a position to grant the application in light of the information revealed following an enhanced disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service;

(iii)         a summary of the convictions disclosed having been provided which related to a number of offences spanning a period from 1965 to 1995 including incidents relating to theft, traffic offences, drunkenness and other related offences and dishonesty;

(iv)         the Council’s current policy with regard to the relevance of convictions, and

(v)           the Applicant having been invited to attend the meeting in support of his application and to answer members’ questions thereon.

Members were advised that the Applicant was not in attendance but had submitted a letter (circulated at the meeting) in support of his application.  The letter did not explain the Applicant’s absence.  Following consideration members agreed that the application be deferred to the committee’s next meeting to provide a further opportunity for the Applicant to attend.

RESOLVED that the application for a hackney carriage and private hire vehicle drivers licence from Applicant No. 051260 be deferred to the committee’s next meeting.

The meeting concluded at 11.40 a.m.