Licensing Sub-Committee (Taxis) - Thursday, 12th October, 2023 11.00 am - Agenda and decisions

To consider resolving:

That, subject to the public interest test, the public be excluded from this meeting during the discussion of the undermentioned item to avoid the disclosure of exempt information within the paragraphs of Schedule 12A to the Local Government Act, 1972 indicated against such item:

Item                Schedule      Categories

No.                  12A Para.

                        Nos.

2                      1 and 3           Information relating to any individual or the                                financial or business affairs of any particular                           person (including the Authority holding that                                                        information)

To consider the Executive Head of Operational Services’ Exempt Report No. OS2313 (copy attached) in respect of the outcome of an investigation by the Licensing Authority into a complaint concerning a licensed private hire driver.

The decision of the Sub-Committee, on the balance of probabilities, was that Mr Hopcroft was not a fit and proper person to hold a private hire driver’s licence. Therefore, the decision was to revoke Mr Hopcroft’s private hire driver’s licence with immediate effect.