Issue - meetings

Report of the Director of Planning and Development attached.

The committee considered a report of the Director (Planning and Development) that following invitation, members of the trade have submitted expressions of interest in being allocated a hackney carriage vehicle licence.

The committee were requested to carry out a tombola to select those invited to make a formal application for a hackney carriage vehicle licence.

The Enforcement Team Leader (Licensing) explained the procedure to be followed and the Chair placed seven sealed envelopes, each containing an application, into the tombola. The draw was then carried out by the Vice-Chair and names were picked out in the following order:

1.    Habij Miah

2.    Siraj Jiva

3.    Muhammad Ali

4.    Yaseer Siddique

5.    Muhammad Farooq

6.    Khurram Hammad

7.    Ali Bahri

The Enforcement Team Leader (Licensing) explained that the first name drawn would be given the opportunity to apply for the grant of a hackney carriage vehicle licence. If, on the expiry of two months from the draw, the first applicant had not applied and had a vehicle test, the second name drawn shall be invited to make an application.

If the second name drawn did not apply, then the third would be invited to submit an application. If the third failed to apply, the matter would be brought back before the Committee to determine next actions.

Resolved (Unanimously)

1.    The committee note the information contained within the report and undertake the tombola.

2.    All expressions of interest were drawn from the tombola o provide an audit trail showing all valid expressions were entered into the draw.

3.    The committee note and confirm that being drawn from the tombola does not give a guaranteed right to a licence and that the usual criteria grant for a licence shall apply.