Issue - meetings

Recent Conviction of current SMBC Licensed Private Hire Driver

Meeting: 29/07/2015 - Licensing, Environment & Safety Committee (Item 9)

Case Number P1561

To consider a report of the Corporate Director for Place Management and Regeneration.

 

The report advisers members of a licensed hire car driver’s police caution.

 

The Committee is requested to consider whether or not the driver is a fit and proper person to continue to hold a hire car driver’s licence.

 

Officer contact: Martin Cooper on 474 1550 or email: martin.cooper@stockport.gov.uk

 

Minutes:

A representative of the Corporate Director for Place Management and Regeneration submitted a report (copies of which had been circulated) requesting the Committee to consider the suitability of the driver to continue to be licensed as a hire car driver following his conviction for plying for hire and having invalid insurance.

 

The Committee interviewed the driver in relation to these matters.

 

RESOLVED – That in the light of the driver’s conviction for offences of plying for hire and having invalid insurance the driver’s licence be suspended for a one week period.