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Former Redruth taxi driver has license revoked

A FORMER Redruth taxi driver has had licences for two of his vehicles revoked after authorities discovered them working in Birmingham as private hire cars.

Cornwall Council's Miscellaneous Licensing Committee has cancelled two Hackney Carriage Licences held by Nadeem Ahmed for breach of the Council's hackney carriage licence conditions.

At a meeting in May the Committee heard that earlier that month Cornwall Council's Licensing Compliance team were notified by licensing enforcement for Birmingham City Council that two hackney carriages licensed with Cornwall Council were operating in the city.

Bob Mears, senior licensing compliance officer with Cornwall Council said: "We found that two Fiat Scudos which were licensed to operate within the Kerrier zone in Cornwall and the proprietor was Mr Nadeem Ahmed.

"We then confirmed with a private hire company in Birmingham that the vehicles had been operating for them."

Mr Ahmed was asked to bring in the vehicles for a routine inspection, but despite initially agreeing to attend, he then telephoned back 30 minutes later to inform the officer that he was in Birmingham.

He said that he believed that he was perfectly entitled to operate as a private hire vehicle, but was advised that his vehicle must operate in Cornwall, principally from or within the taxi zone that it is licensed for.

Mr Ahmed had also provided Cornwall Council with an address in Redruth and clearly did not reside there as he currently lived in Birmingham. The council had not received any notification of a change of address from him.

In his defence Mr Ahmed stated that he had worked in Redruth but had had to move to Birmingham following his mother's illness, however he was unable to provide a satisfactory explanation as to why he had two hackney carriages operating in Birmingham.

After due deliberation the Committee revoked both hackney carriage vehicle licences.

Cornwall Council cabinet member for communities Geoff Brown said: "It is important for the safety and well-being of passengers that we are able to maintain effective checks on our hackney carriages and breaches of the conditions may, as in this case, lead to revocation of the licence."


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Welcome to 2015.

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IDFIMH

I thought the loop hole allowed any Hackney to masquerade as a private hire in any other licensing area?

But where they licensed as hackney or PH to begin with, considering the press get it wrong occasionally

I bet he's been up to no good like, turning up for spot checks and some other things by the sounds of it.

or not informing the council that he's moved

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

But I'm assuming Cornwall has a bylaw that says hackneys must predominately work in the area to which they are licensed, so he has breached that.

The question could be tested in a higher court, but that will cost a lot of cash and take best part of 18 months to get before the High Court.

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