Agenda item

Report of Corporate Director (Governance) (enclosed)

Further to Minute 08.LPS.06, 4 June 2008 the Committee received a report of the Corporate Director (Governance) on proposals to revise conditions for the purpose of licensing Hackney Carriages and Private Hire Vehicles to operate within the controlled district of Chorley.

The report indicated that Chorley Council was responsible to ensure that hackney carriages and private hire vehicles are suitable for use and that they meet conditions and road worthiness, suitable appearance and comfort.  The Council also had power to require those vehicles to be submitted for inspection and testing and to impose conditions on licences.

A number of meetings including a workshop had taken place between the Council and the taxi trade, as part of the consultation and development process for formulating the proposed conditions.

The last time the Council’s taxi licensing conditions were reviewed was in 1996 and it was now considered after that time for the conditions to be reviewed.

The Committee received representations from the Hackney Carriage and Private Hire trade and from their legal representatives, raising several issues in which they wished to have some of the conditions modified.

RESOLVED – 1) That the contents of the report and the representations made by Members of the Hackney Carriage and Private Hire trade, who had been invited to the meeting be noted.

2)  That the Corporate Director (Governance) be requested to implement the new conditions with effect from 1 November 2008.