Issue - meetings

The Panel considered an application to grant a dual driver’s licence, which due to convictions recorded against the Applicant calls 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 reason the Applicant had appeared before the Panel, namely convictions for motoring offences and information about the Applicant’s conduct when previously licensed by Rochdale Council, the report written by the Officer, her recommendations, the Applicant’s comments and the Council’s Statement of Fitness and Suitability, the Applicant is considered to be a fit and proper person on the grounds that the Applicant has had no convictions or complaints about their behaviour since 2019 and the Applicant holds a Public Service Vehicle licence and currently carries out school contract work for Oldham Council without complaints about his behaviour and is accordingly granted a licence for a period of three years to be reviewed annually and if the Council receives any complaints about the Applicant’s behaviour in the meantime or if the Applicant commits any speeding offences or is charged with any criminal offence, the Applicant will be brought back before the Panel.

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