the thinker wrote:
grandad wrote:
If there are 182 people on the waiting list and they are going to issue 4 plates a year, the people at the bottom of the list are going to have to wait 45 years to get a plate. So if you go on the list when you are 20 years old, you will be retired before you get one.
The Halcrow survey dictated that York needed 15 plates to meet the unmet demand, which were issued to people on the waiting list, the Council in their wisdom decided to issue two more plates every six months for two years to meet the growing population within the city, after this time another survey would be carried out and should show that there is no unmet demand, so the area is still restricted, and there will still be a waiting list,there was also some conditions attached to the new plates that were issued which were, the vehicle had to be a side loading WAV that conformed to Euro 4 emission standards, once the survey shows no unmet demand, no more plates will be issued so there will still be a waiting list that gets longer every day as you would expect when something is being given away free.
Halcrow surveys usually now have a recommendation to issue a set number of Hackney Licenses if their survey shows that there is an Unmet Demand.
And nobody has ever challenged their formulae, reasonings or calculations, and without a challenge, what Halcrow are saying is ..... well we have conducted a survey, found that there is an Unmet Demand, calculated that the issue of x number of Hackney Licenses will satisfy that Unmet Demand, & recommend that the Council issue that number of plates over y months or immediately or whatever.
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We tried to challenge their findings but we were informe that the formula they use is their copyright and not available, we also asked the see the sheets they use to collect the raw data, again they said dataprotection prevented this, we hired Gerald Grisdale who is a very good analyst and he tore their evidence to shreds, however they said without the raw data which they could not, sorry would not supply there was no substance to his findings, they say that they are prepared to go to court but if they will not supply all the required evidence they cannot lose.
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