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Agenda and minutes

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Contact: Carole Leary  Democratic Services Officer

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No. Item

33.

Declarations of Interest

Members will disclose any pecuniary and any other significant interests they may have in relation to the matters under consideration.

Minutes:

None.

34.

Confirmation of minutes pdf icon PDF 121 KB

To confirm as a correct record the minutes of the meeting of the Licensing Committee held on 27 September 2018, attached.

Minutes:

The minutes of the Licensing Committee meeting for 27 September 2018, were confirmed as a correct record.

35.

Exclusion of the Public and Press

In accordance with Paragraph 11 of the Access to Information Rules in Part 4 of the Council’s Constitution, the Chief Executive has determined that the report submitted under item 5 of this agenda is “Not for Publication” because item 5 contains “exempt information”, as defined in Schedule 12A of the Local Government Act 1972.

 

If the Committee agrees that the public and press should be excluded for this item, it will need to pass the following resolution:-

 

“That the public and press be excluded from the meeting whilst agenda item 5 is being considered, as it refers to exempt information as defined in category 1 (information relating to any individual) of Part 1 of Schedule 12(a) of the Local Government Act, 1972, as amended by the Local Government (Access to Information) Variation Order 2006 and, that the public interest in maintaining the exemptions outweighs the public interest in disclosing the information”.

 

Minutes:

RESOLVED That the public and press be excluded from the meeting whilst agenda item 5 (New applicant for a dual drivers licence) was being considered, because it referred to exempt information as defined in category 1 (information relating to any individual) of Part 1 of Schedule 12(a) of the Local Government Act, 1972, as amended by the Local Government (Access to Information) Variation Order 2006 and, that the public interest in maintaining the exemptions outweighed the public interest in disclosing the information.

 

36.

New Applicant for a Wyre Dual Drivers Licence with an historic criminal conviction

Minutes:

The Service Director Health and Wellbeing submitted a report to provide members of the Licensing Committee with information to assist them at a hearing.

 

The Applicant was present at the meeting and supported by his wife, but he was not legally represented.

 

The Manager of Food Health & Safety & Licensing, in the Licensing Manager’s absence, introduced the report.

 

The Applicant spoke to the Committee, explaining the circumstances of his historic criminal conviction 38 years ago and of a more recent motoring offence in 2015, as set out in the report.

 

His wife also spoke to the Committee in support of her husband.

 

Members of the Committee and the Senior Solicitor asked questions of the applicant, and he provided explanations of the two incidents.

 

The Applicant, his wife, the Taxi Licensing Officer and the Manager of Food Health & Safety & Licensing, left the room whilst the Committee Members considered the application in closed session.

 

The Applicant, his wife, the Taxi Licensing Officer and the Manager of Food Health & Safety & Licensing were brought back into the room and the Licensing Committee reconvened and the Chairman announced the Committee’s decision.

 

RESOLVED that the Applicant be granted a three year dual driver’s licence.

 

The reasons for the decision were:

 

The Committee were satisfied that the applicant was a fit and proper person to hold a dual driver’s licence.

 

After listening to his explanation of the one historic offence and the one motoring offence, it was considered that there were exceptional circumstances to depart from the council’s policy, as the historic offence was an isolated offence which had occurred 38 years ago and also, almost 3 years had elapsed since the SP30 motoring offence.

 

The Committee also noted that the applicant had a full clean driving licence and had no other recorded convictions, except for the two disclosed within the report.

 

It was explained to him how seriously Wyre Council takes its duty to protect the travelling public and to assure the public that all drivers of Wyre licensed vehicles are checked and scrutinised to an appropriately high standard.

 

The meeting started at 6pm and finished at 6.23pm

 

Date of Publication: Monday 29 October, 2018

 

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