Issue - meetings

DP/2023/30

Meeting: 05/12/2023 - Licensing Driver Panel (Item 10)

DP/2023/30

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 their 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.

Minutes:

The Panel considered a report to inform them of an application for a new Dual Driver’s licence which, due to a conviction, called into question their fitness and propriety to be a suitable person to hold such a licence.  As such the application was referred to the Panel for determination.

 

RESOLVED that, based on the information provided to the Panel, having taken into account the reasons the Applicant has appeared before the Panel, the report written by the Officer, Officer recommendations, the Applicants comments and the Council's Statement of Fitness and Suitability, that on this occasion, the Applicant is not a fit and proper person and accordingly the application be REFUSED on the grounds that the Applicant has a conviction for using a vehicle without insurance within the last five years and the Applicant failed to inform the Council of their conviction that Wolverhampton Council revoked the Applicant’s previous licence in 2019.

 

NOTE:

The Applicant attended the meeting and addressed the Panel.