Issue - meetings

(i)       Approves the fare tariff in appendix 2, subject to the yardage errors being amended;

(ii)      Instructs the Chief Officer - Governance to publish the fare tariff to take effect on the first week of the Easter holidays in 2025; and

(iii)      Instructs the Chief Officer - Governance to report any representations to Committee prior to 28 January 2025, or in the absence of any representation, to notify all operators of taxis within 7 days of the new tariff and their rights of appeal to the Traffic Commissioner.

The Committee had before it a report by the Director of Corporate Services which sought to agree a fare tariff.

The report recommended:-

that the Committee –

(a)      approve a fare tariff after considering the trade responses;

(b)      instruct the Chief Officer - Governance to publish the fare tariff to take effect as of a specified date; and

(c)      instruct the Chief Officer - Governance to report any representations to Committee prior to 28 January 2025, or in the absence of any representation, to notify all operators of taxis within 7 days of the new tariff and their rights of appeal to the Traffic Commissioner.

The Committee resolved:-

(i)       to approve the fare tariff in appendix 2, subject to the yardage errors being amended;

(ii)      to instruct the Chief Officer - Governance to publish the fare tariff to take effect in the first week of the Easter holidays in 2025; and

(iii)      to approve recommendation (c).