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MANCHESTER CITY COUNCIL PUTS BRAKES ON NEW HACKNEY POLICY


In an abrupt about-turn as sharp as the black cab’s famous turning circle, Manchester City Council has indicated that the adoption of new “Manchester Con- ditions of Fitness” for licensed hackney car- riages, having been discussed at length, will be going back to the drawing board. Following a 12-week consultation exercise and then an open day in February where vehi- cles could be viewed and opinion sought from vehicle manufac- turers, hackney car- riage proprietors and members of the public, on the 10th June the council’s Licensing and Appeals Committee agreed that:- ...The Transport


for


London Conditions of Fitness be abandoned and that a Manchester standard adopted as detailed in Appendix 8 of the report with the following


amend-


ments:- (a) Item 14k to state that


‘Vehicles


should be fitted with a swivel seat’; and (b) an adjustment was to be


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made at item 18(b) con- cerning light


trans-


mittance levels through each type of window. A report to the next Licensing and Appeals Committee would con- tain a revised copy of the Statement of Policy, Conditions of Fitness and Guidelines in Rela- tion


to Hackney


Carriage Vehicles; and would include amend- ments


to any


conditions/policy that have been materially affected by the review. What all this meant was that (a) the interim measure which had been put in place last November


allowing


more vehicles, such as the E7, to be licensed in Manchester was to cease; and (b) the only vehicles


currently


being licensed in Man- chester – the London Taxi Company TX4 and the Mercedes Vito – in themselves do not fit the new criteria for


licensing. The existing TX4 does not currently come supplied with the requisite lip/ledge on the ramp to prevent wheelchair slippage, and the Mercedes will be required to have a swivel seat fitted at a prohibitive cost. Immediately following the 10 June Commit- tee, a solicitor’s letter was sent


into the


council on behalf of Allied Vehicles, manu- facturer of the Cab Direct E7, reminding the council of the dis- tinct possibility of legal challenge of their poli- cy


following the


outcome of the case R on the application of Alma Lunt and Allied Vehicles Ltd –v- Liver- pool City Council, which upheld that Liv- erpool City Council’s hackney


licensing policy was unlawful


in that


carriage it


amounted to “unjusti- fied discrimination”.


Manchester City Coun- cil is now considering their position, and the outcome of the 2nd July Committee will be made known to PHTM readers as soon as we know it ourselves. Meanwhile, Manches- ter


licence holders


have told us that (a) on the 10th June the Com- mittee deliberated for 80 minutes over “legal matters” whilst licence holders and the public – and the licensing offi- cer - were excluded, whereas the trade believes this should be an open forum for dis- cussion.


(b) The


‘interim policy’ has now been extended until the new policy is determined. (c) Most significantly, at


this


point in time there are no vehicles licensed in Manchester which would adhere to all the new “Manchester con- ditions of


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