Issue - meetings

Report of the Specialist Consultant attached.

Further to Minute No. 83 of the meeting of the General Licensing Committee held on 10 April 2018, the Council considered the report of the Interim Deputy Chief Executive (Resources and Transformation) on the proposed adoption of a draft policy to ensure the safety of licensed vehicles which were subject to modification.

It was moved by Councillor John Rainsbury, seconded by Councillor David Watts and

RESOLVED: (Unanimously)

That:

(1)       the final version of the draft testing specification for modified vehicles, set out in Appendix 2 to the report be adopted and come into force on 1 July 2018: and

(2)       the decision originally made in principle by the General Licensing Committee on 17 October 2017, namely that any tests to ensure the safety of modified vehicles against the specification adopted in resolution (1) above, should be carried out solely by the Lancashire County Council facility at Bamber Bridge, be formally adopted.

Report of the Interim Deputy Chief Executive (Resources & Transformation) attached.

The Committee received a report of the Interim Deputy Chief Executive (Resources and Transformation) that updated Members on the latest position on the proposed adoption of a draft policy to ensure the safety of licensed vehicles which were subject to modification.

Members had received several reports on this policy over the past twelve months and this report advised Members on the outcome of a second consultation exercise that had recently been undertaken. Members were also asked to note an updated version of the Equalities Impact assessment appended to the report.

Following no responses being received for the second consultation exercise Members were asked to consider whether to forward the final version of the draft testing specification for modified vehicles to a meeting of full Council for approval.

RESOLVED (Unanimously):

1.    To recommend full Council to formally adopt the final version of the draft testing specification for modified vehicles (to take effect on 1 July 2018) at its meeting on 17 May 2018.

2.    To recommend full Council approve that any tests to ensure the safety of modified vehicles against a specification be carried out solely by the Lancashire County Council facility at Bamber Bridge at its meeting on 17 May 2018.