Issue - meetings

DP/2024/09

Meeting: 06/02/2024 - Licensing Driver Panel (Item 8)

DP/2024/09

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.

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Minutes:

The Panel considered a report to inform them of an application for a new Dual Driver’s licence, which, due to a  conviction recorded against the Applicant calls in to 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 reason the Applicant has appeared before the Panel, namely: a conviction for conspiracy to supply drugs, the report written by the Officer, their recommendations, the Applicant’s comments and the Council's Statement of Fitness and Suitability, the Applicant’s conduct since leaving prison in 2016 has demonstrated that the Applicant is a fit and proper person and accordingly the application be GRANTED for a period of one year with the licence to be renewed for a further period of two years, if the Council receives no complaints about the Applicant’s conduct in the meantime.

 

NOTE:

1.      DP/2024/09 was Deferred from the Driver Panel meeting on 16th January 2024, to obtain further information from Greater Manchester Police.

2.      The Applicant attended the meeting and addressed the Panel.

3.      That in accordance with Part 4, Paragraph 16.3 of the Council’s Constitution, Councillor Cosgrove voted against this decision and Councillor Hamblett abstained.