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Bristol Temple Meads taxi drivers to pay station permit fee



First Great Western said it wanted to put the dispute behind them

Taxi drivers using the approach road to Bristol Temple Meads railway station will have to pay to pick up passengers.

First Great Western said the £375 permit was needed because the front of the station was congested and charging was normal at other stations.

The National Taxi Association in Bristol (NTAB) challenged this but Bristol Civil Justice Centre ruled in favour of the rail operator.

No-one from NTAB was available to comment on the ruling.

Kevin Bartlett from First Great Western said: "We are pleased the court has clarified the policy of the permit scheme in place at Bristol Temple Meads and our motives for bringing it in.

"We look forward to putting the legal dispute behind us and to start working with the Bristol branch of the National Taxi Association, taxi drivers and other key stakeholders to improve the station environment for both our customers and taxi drivers."

Previously a NTAB spokesman said the cab drivers had not paid fees at Temple Meads since 1974 and "firmly believed" the move was just a "money revenue-raising exercise".

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-22312459

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Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
George Carlin

PARASITES!

Maybe the Bristol NTA could now pay the NTA.

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IDFIMH

Cabfind by any chance??

Confirmation of Taxi Permit Schemes on Private Land


Burges Salmon has advised client First Great Western on its successful defeat of an aggressive challenge brought by Bristol Taxi drivers against a permit scheme introduced at Temple Meads station in 2012.

In the judgment, given on 26 April 2013, the High Court confirmed the existing law that private landowners can enforce permit schemes for taxi drivers who want to ply for hire from their land.

First Great Western ("FGW") first introduced the permit scheme for taxi drivers, giving access to the stands at its Bristol Temple Meads station, in March 2012. Despite the widespread practice of such schemes and the established law (which had been recognised by amongst others the law commission), the local branch of the National Taxi Association disputed the landowner's right to control its land in this way.

The drivers raised a range of grounds to try to resist the obligation to sign up for a permit and pay for the right to earn money on private land including:

•That their city council licences and the fact that stands were fixed in city council byelaws gave them a right to access and ply for hire without reference to the landowner;

•That the imposition of a permit scheme breached their human rights because it resulted in the loss of the 'possession' of free access;

•That the land was a highway and they had a right to ply for hire on any highway even if it was private land.

The judge rejected each of their arguments in a comprehensive judgment. He confirmed the established law that City Council Taxi Byelaws grant no new property rights, permission to access someone else's land for free is not a possession for the purposes of Human Rights (and FGW was not a Public Authority anyway) and the land cannot be a highway because all access has been by permission of the landowner for railway purposes and (in any event) the British Transport Commission Act 1949 prevents highways arising over Railway land.

This judgment should reassure landowners of their rights to control their own land and to permit access to it to taxi drivers on their own terms.

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Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
George Carlin

I don't know why people don't listen to me - if these people did it would have saved them thousands.

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Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
George Carlin

And the lads really needed to go to the court to be told that?

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IDFIMH

Because they are blind and deaf cnuts.

They'll make ideal MPs then!

Wonder which train company will be first to try it on in London.

I relish that one.

It'll be whoever runs the station, not the trains.

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That rank looks very much outside the station so tell them to go feck themselves

it look like bristol council have rovers fan in charge i wonder if city fan only use ph cos of color scheme

Behave yourself Skippy. Or just read the report properly.

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Grandad,

It's not, look at Cabfind website. When they're advertising Station Permits they'll say "Bristol Temple Meads on behalf of Virgin Trans".