Taxi Driver Online

Another one from the 'local democracy reporter' on the Cambridgeshire Live website which carried the article posted by Sussex yesterday about the applicant with the 'iffy' English

So echoes of this kind of stuff posted regularly from the likes of Glasgow and Teesside. Difference is, yesterday's pieice was about South Cambs Council, while this one's about Fenland Council.

Anyway, this looked like a dodgy headline because it immediately looks like a new applicant rather than a renewal.

In fact, he does have a badge, so ignoring the t-word, the headline isn't incorrect.

However, the strapline gives the impression he'd failed to notify several previous licensing authorties about this penatly points. In fact, the article seems to say it's only one.

So not as juicy as it might have been

(And not clear either if he's still got the other badge, or if it was revoked, or whatever.)


Taxi driver with nine points has taxi licence refused

https://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/l ... i-34437587

Fenland District Council said the driver had failed to notify previous licensing authorities of his penalty points 'on several occasions'

A taxi driver who gained nine penalty points in a "short period of time" has had his taxi licence refused. Fenland District Council’s licensing sub-committee said they were “naturally concerned” by this when considering the application for a new private hire licence.

The driver has not been named as the press and public were excluded from the meeting but the council have released minutes explaining their reasons behind their decision.

He told the sub-committee “that he had previously received penalty points, but these had fallen away”.

He admitted that “on several occasions” he had failed to let a different licensing authority know he had received penalty points, breaching the requirements of his private hire licence.

The sub-committee said they sympathised with his circumstances at the time, but “could not be sure” he would let Fenland Council know about penalty points, or other matters, in the future if they granted his application.

They said their own policy states a private hire licence can be given to a driver with penalty points – but it is left to the sub-committee’s discretion.

They concluded that he was “not fit and proper to hold a licence” and refused his request.