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Agenda and minutes
Venue: Town Hall, Queen's Square, Priory Meadow, Hastings, TN34 1QR. If you are attending the Town Hall for this meeting, please enter the building via the Queens Road entrance opposite the cinema.
Items No. Item Apologies for Absence
Minutes:
None.
Minutes of the meeting held on 2 December 2014 PDF 56 KB
Minutes:
RESOLVED – that the minutes of the meeting held on 2 December 2014 be approved as a true record and signed by the Chair.
Declarations of interest
Minutes:
The following councillors declared an interest in the minutes as indicated:
Councillor
Minute
Interest
All members
30E
Personal – The solicitor representing the driver is known them
Notification of any additional urgent items
Minutes:
A late statement had been received from the driver’s solicitor.
Additional urgent items (if any)
Minutes:
None.
Exclusion of the public
To resolve that the public be excluded from the meeting during the consideration of the items of business listed below because it is likely that, if members of the public were present, there would be disclosure to them of ‘exempt’ information as defined in the paragraphs of Schedule 12A to the Local Government Act 1972 referred to in the relevant report.
Minutes:
RESOLVED -that the public be excluded from the meeting during the consideration of the item of business listed below because it is likely that, if members of the public were present, there would be disclosure to them of ‘exempt’ information as defined in the paragraphs of Schedule 12A to the Local Government Act 1972
Minute No.
Subject Matter
Paragraph No.
30(E)
‘Fit and Proper’ test for Licenced Hackney Carriage/Private Hire Drivers Licence
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'Fit and Proper' test for Licensed Hackney Carriage/Private Hire Driver
Minutes:
The Corporate Director, Environmental Services, submitted a report regarding a fit and proper test for a licensed Hackney Carriage / Private driver.
The purpose of the report was to determine if the applicant was a “Fit and Proper” person to continue to hold a Hackney Carriage / Private Hire Driver’s Licence.
The driver was in attendance, represented by his solicitor Mr Foster.
Mr Foster circulated a written statement on behalf of his client for Members to consider. The Committee were given the opportunity to read the information.
The driver and his legal advisor both made a submission in his defence.
Two witnesses from Radio Relay, Lewes, were present and made a submission concerning the second complaint against the driver.
Members discussed the complaints at length.
Councillor Rogers proposed a motion to grant the application, which was seconded by Councillor Street.
RESOLVED(unanimously) that the driver is a “Fit and Proper Person” to continue to hold a Hackney Carriage/Private Hire Vehicle Driver’s Licence and therefore take no further action.
Reason for this decision: The Committee listened very carefully to all the evidence before it. It is clear that the driver had displayed inappropriate behaviour and language on at least two occasions. Whilst that behaviour is not a way for licensed taxi drivers to behave, the incidents did not occur whilst the driver had fare paying passengers.
However, the Committee want the applicant to be aware that any further incidents of this nature that would necessitate the applicant being brought before them again, would be taken very seriously.
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