Agenda for Council on Tuesday 14th June 2016, 7.00 pm

Agenda and minutes

Venue: Council Chamber, Campus East, Welwyn Garden City, Herts, AL8 6AE. View directions

Contact: Graham Seal 

Items
No. Item

1.

APOLOGIES

To receive apologies for absence, if any.

 

Minutes:

Apologies for absence were received from CouncillorsT.Bailey, D.Bennett, J.Broach and F.Thomson.

 

2.

REVISED FEES FOR HACKNEY CARRIAGE AND PRIVATE HIRE LICENCES pdf icon PDF 232 KB

Report of the Director (Governance) asking the Council to consider and set fees for hackney carriage and private hire licences and to agree a date when these fees will come into effect.

Minutes:

Report of the Director (Governance) asking the Council to consider and set fees for hackney carriage and private hire licences and to agree a date when these fees would come into effect.

 

The recommendation from the Environment Overview and Scrutiny Committee was to increase the fees by 20% once the statutory process of advertising had taken place. These fees had not been increased since June 2006.  Officers outlined that this increase might result in a small surplus of around £10,000 on the account, but this was considered the most prudent approach in budgeting terms as it was important to ensure that the ring fenced account did not fall into a deficit position for the future.

 

A revised table had been circulated to all Members of the Council setting out the proposed new fees.

 

It was moved by Councillor R.Trigg, seconded by Councillor J.Dean and

 

RESOLVED:

(27 voting for and 14 against)

 

(1)           That the decision of the Environment Overview and Scrutiny Committee to start the process for revising fees be ratified.

(2)           That the schedule of fees to be charged for the licences and activities as attached to these Minutes be agreed.

(3)           That these fees come into effect on 27 June 2016.

(4)           That Officers commence the process of revising hackney carriage fares in accordance with the relevant statutory process.

 

That Officers commence the process of revising hackney carriage fares in accordance with the relevant statutory process.


SCHEDULEOF CURRENTFEES ANDPROPOSED NEWFEES

 

Licence/ activity

Duration

Existing fee

Proposed newfee as adverstised  1

Hackney carriagedriver licence

1 year

125

150

Hackney carriagevehicle licence

1 year

242

290

Private hirevehicle licence

1 year

242

290

Private hiredriver licence

1 year

125

150

Private hireoperator licence

1year

275

330

Private hireoperator licence

3 year

Not previouslyavailable

762

Private hireoperator licence

5 year

Not previouslyavailable

1194

CRB check

 

44

50

Knowledge test(per attempt)

 

35

60

Replacement plate

 

20

20

Replacement bracket

 

10

15

Replacement driver'sbadge

 

10

15

Extra copy/duplicateof licence

 

5

5

DVLA

 

10

10

Vehicletransfers

 

50

100

 

 

1Note the20% increaseapplies tothe statutorylicence fees