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Taxi licensing meeting 22 feb 06



297.
Hackney Carriage Vehicle Licence Applications

View the reasons why item 297. is restricted
Minutes:

The Committee considered 9 applications for the grant of hackney carriage vehicle licences.

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The Committee carefully considered the applications and the letter submitted in support of the applications.



The Committee notes that on 24 March, 2005 it considered an independent survey which considered that there was no evidence of any significant unmet demand for taxis in the City. In response to this the Committee decided to maintain the moratorium on the issue of taxicab proprietor licences.



The Committee does not consider that there are any reasons which should lead the Committee to depart from its stated policy. The Committee notes the contents of the letter dated 14 September, 2005 submitted by the applicant, which contains alleged circumstances concerning various licences going back 30 years. However, the Committee does not consider that there is any justification for issuing nine new licences at this time.



Resolved that the application is refused as the Committee is satisfied there is no significant unmet demand to justify the granting of the applications.



I wonder what these , alleged circumstances concering various licences are . ANY ONE KNOW? STREETCARS

Sh** this could be Edinburgh, deja vu perhaps, a glitch in the Matrix. Do you ever get the feeling they are all hardwired to the same system?

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The applicant can appeal which would entitle him to have every single document that was produced by the council and Jacobs in respect of this survey. If only for this information alone it is worth appealing.

I haven't read the survey fully but I noticed right away the inacuracy of Ian Millership in stating Sefton had dispensation to have surveys every five years. Jacobs don't charge enough to conduct meaningfull surveys and neither do TPI as Paul Mckee suggested in court in Plymouth "you don't get a Rolls Royce Survey for 22 grand".

If he's not out of time I hope he appeals. Even then he could go to judicial review.

Regards

JD

Anyone faced with a refusal from a council under section 16 of the Transport act or section 10.3 of the civic Government Scotland act who wishes to appeal that decision should always apply to the court to have all material appertaining to the survey preserved. This includes all material in whatever form that pertains in any way to the survey.

The court order should state the materials to be preserved including but not limited to "all data, material, including computerised information and or communications, photographs, tape recordings including video tape recordings, graphs and other information gathered during the course of the survey activity."

I'm quite sure this information will be of great help to the appellant.

Regards

JD

Liverpool and Edinburgh have a lot in common ,Taxi wise i mean .Well MR Skull i thought you and ALI were brave . I just hope and pray this person , is as brave as you two . and takes the council to court . streetcars .

JD i can not find out who this applicant, is or indeed what his angle is . I just hope some one tells him about TDO . We will see what happens next . But Liverpool council, coerced by large fleet owners think there above the law . Perhaps he will realise ,you may be able to help him ,and appeals . streetcars .

The problem is that the so-called justice system is weighted heavily in favour of the LAs, who are very stubborn.

Just look at Plymouth - unfortunately challenging the LA like this is just not feasible for the average driver.

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