Agenda and draft minutes
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Apologies
To receive any apologies for absence. Additional documents: Minutes: Apologies were received from Councillors S Lees and Palmer. |
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Declarations of Interest
To receive and note any declarations of disclosable pecuniary or prejudicial or personal interests in respect of any matters included on the agenda for consideration at this meeting.
(The personal interests of Councillors and Clerks of Somerset County Council, Town or Parish Councils and other Local Authorities will automatically be recorded in the minutes.) Additional documents: Minutes: Members present at the meeting declared the following personal interests in their capacity as a Councillor or Clerk of a County, Town or Parish Council or any other Local Authority:-
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Public Participation
The Chair to advise the Committee of any items on which members of the public have requested to speak and advise those members of the public present of the details of the Council’s public participation scheme.
For those members of the public who have submitted any questions or statements, please note, a three minute time limit applies to each speaker and you will be asked to speak before Councillors debate the issue.
We are now live webcasting most of our committee meetings and you are welcome to view and listen to the discussion. The link to each webcast will be available on the meeting webpage, but you can also access them on the Somerset West and Taunton webcasting website. Additional documents: Minutes: No members of the public had requested to speak on any item on the agenda. |
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Proposal to make changes to hackney carriage and private hire licensing policy
Additional documents: Minutes:
There were no comments or questions arising on this item.
Councillor Coles proposed, and Councillor Lloyd seconded a motion for the Licensing Committee to:-
Resolved to make the changes to the two taxi and private hire licensing policies as listed in Appendix A, to:
• Remove hackney carriage and private hire vehicle age restrictions. • Make roof signs mandatory for hackney carriages but prohibit their use on private hire vehicles completely. • Increase the frequency of driver medical checks. • Allow vehicles with rear wheelchair loading facilities to be licensed as hackney carriages and private vehicles in the West Somerset area, as they are already in the Taunton Deane area.
The motion was carried unanimously.
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Proposal to adopt a new policy in relation to the regulation of Street Trading
Additional documents: Minutes: During the discussion, the following points were raised:-
· Councillors agreed that it was a good Policy and were happy to support the recommendation;
Resolved that:-
Councillor Whetlor proposed, and Councillor Coles seconded a motion for the Licensing Committee to adopt the proposed street trading policy attached as Appendix A, as recommended by both the report author and Street Trading policy review working group.
The motion was carried unanimously.
The Chair thanked the Licensing Officer and Committee members for their time they had given to the Committee in the past year.
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