The Committee considered a request from the taxi trade to amend the current specification of hackney carriage and private hire vehicle engine capacity as outlined in the Council’s Hackney Carriage and Private Hire Vehicle Policy.
The current specification for all vehicles as set out in the Policy in terms of cubic capacity (cc) is a minimum of 1400cc. This has been the case since 3 December 2019 when the minimum capacity was reduced from 1500cc to 1400cc.
It has been requested from members of the taxi trade that the Committee considers reducing the minimum capacity further.
RESOLVED that the Policy be amended to reduce the size of the minimum capacity further.