Issue - meetings

DP-2026-62

Meeting: 29/09/2026 - Licensing Driver Panel (Item 9)

DP-2026-62

The purpose of this report is to inform Members of an application for a new Dual Driver’s
licence, which, due to a conviction calls in to question the applicant’s fitness and propriety to
be a suitable person to hold such a licence. As such, the application has been referred to
this Panel for determination.

Additional documents:

Minutes:

The Panel considered an application for a new Dual Driver’s Licence, where information recorded against the Applicant called in to question the Applicant’s fitness and propriety to be a suitable person to hold such a licence.

 

RESOLVED that, based on the information provided to the Panel, having taken into account the reason the Applicant had appeared before the Panel, namely their conduct, the report written by the Officer, the Applicant’s comments and the Council’s Statement of Fitness and Suitability, the Applicant was not a fit and proper person and accordingly the application for licence be REFUSED on the grounds that the Applicant’s conduct was a criminal offence and as a result the Applicant’s licence had been revoked by Wolverhampton City Council in 2025.

 

NOTE: The Applicant attended the meeting and addressed the Panel.