Pendle Council's Taxi Licensing Committee is considering establishing a working group to examine policies regarding the age of taxis. This comes amidst ongoing discussions about improving taxi safety and standards, including vehicle maintenance, driver training, and technology integration.
Policies to control the age of taxis could be looked at by Pendle councillors, as work continues on improving vehicle safety and standards, and rules for firms and individual drivers.
It comes against a backdrop of debate, talks and some significant disagreement about how best to raise standards for taxis, especially private hire vehicles and drivers.Over the past year or two, Pendle's taxi committee, drivers and taxi businesses have discussed various topics and changes.
This summer, the taxi committee has also looked at changing a small part of Pendle Council's taxi licensing policy. This was to add some some flexibility regarding decisions on drivers who re-submit an application for a licence after a previous application has been refused or revoked. The move came after a debate at a full council meeting earlier this summer. Some councillors argued that Pendle Council officers may not always make the correct judgement about a driver. So the taxi committee was a good forum to hear from individual drivers and to have some flexibility to grant an application, if councillors felt the driver's case was justified.
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