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Taxi licensing powers taken away from Kirklees councillors


Councillors will no longer decide who can drive a taxi and who cannot.

Kirklees Council has become the last local authority in West Yorkshire to take the power away from elected members.

The decision to pass the authority to Kirklees Council’s employed licensing officials comes after the Examiner revealed councillors had overruled some recommendations to bar convicted criminals from driving taxis.

Early last year it was confirmed that a violent killer and drug dealer had been sanctioned to work as a taxi driver in Kirklees.

Those present at a full meeting of the council on Wednesday evening were told it was time to fall in line with neighbours, Wakefield, Calderdale, Bradford and Leeds.

The policy change comes amid a huge shake-up of taxi regulations, allowing drivers from any area to operate in Kirklees.

But the new law gives no scope for Kirklees to regulate drivers from other areas.

West Yorkshire’s councils have agreed to work together in a bid to offer identical standards across the region.

source: http://www.examiner.co.uk/news/west-yor ... y-10769130

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

so now lets hope that LO's in Yorkshire are less open to influence than planning officers in some parts of the UK

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lack of modern legislation is the iceberg sinking the titanic of the transport sector

If not already a sizable amount of drivers and vehicles are licensed outside LA areas .its going to be funny when all vehicles and drivers in one area are actually licensed in another. Licensing will only have power on paper!

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