Issue - meetings

Report of the Cabinet Member Development and Safety

RESOLVED THAT

1. the proposed maximum fare increase for hackney carriages be approved; and

2. authority be delegated to the Director of Environment to carry out the necessary advertising requirements to comply with section 65 of the Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1976; and

3. Subject to there being no substantive amendments being made following consultation, authority be delegated to the Director of Environment to adopt the proposed fares.

The Cabinet Member Built Environment introduced the report which explained that section 65 of the Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1976 permitted the council to set fares for hackney carriage or taxi vehicles licensed by it. The council had adopted a fare formula which was used annually to calculate the running costs of a licensed hackney carriage vehicle. He highlighted that there had not been a fare increase since November 2013 as the calculated increases would be too small to be practically reflected. However the cumulative percentage increase since the last fare adjustment in 2013 had resulted in a proposed 6% increase. The report asked Cabinet to approve readjustment of the current maximum fares and the new tariffs which were set out in Appendix 2.

RESOLVED THAT

1. the proposed maximum fare increase for hackney carriages be approved; and

2. authority be delegated to the Director of Environment to carry out the necessary advertising requirements to comply with section 65 of the Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1976; and

3. Subject to there being no substantive amendments being made following consultation, authority be delegated to the Director of Environment to adopt the proposed fares.