Full terms, conditions, restrictions, and obligations regarding attached to PSV Operating Centres.

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Dear Traffic Commissioners,

I would like to see the full terms and conditions attached to the licencing of PSV Operating Centres and also details of what provisions are made to manage non-compliance with these conditions. For example, I have the following specific questions which I would like to have answered, either individually, or as part of a general policy document. Please also highlight where, if at all, policy in Wales may be different from that in England.

1) Definition of vehicles. For an Operating Centre with a given number of permitted vehicles, are only registered PSV vehicles considered as counting towards that limit? What consideration is taken of additional vehicles using the Centre such as mini-bus type vehicles, support/maintenance vehicles , rescue trucks, and other vehicles belonging to the business or its staff kept or regularly parked at the site?

2) In the case of an operator having several registered Operating Centres, how is the business activity expected to be distributed across those Centres? Is it permissible for all vehicle maintenance, vehicle cleaning, and all office functions to be concentrated in a single centre which is only licenced for approximately 10% of the fleet vehicles, where the remaining centres are simply used for vehicle parking?

3) How would an existing licence be affected by the introduction of a secondary business, not covered by the same licencing authority but partially occupying the same geographical site? For example, the addition of a hackney carriage business, registered to a different address but sharing the physical resources of a PSV Operating Centre? What co-ordination exists between OTC and local authorities to prevent a site being overloaded by multiple businesses?

4) If a registered Operating Centre is rented and the tenancy of that Centre expires or is terminated by the landlord, what period of grace is permitted before the licence holder is required to de-register the site?

5) What provision exists within the licencing structure to compel operators to act in a way that takes into consideration the effect of operations on nearby residents? Does the OTC have the power to revoke licences where the operator is in significant breach of conditions, or acts in a significantly anti-social manner?

Yours faithfully,

Colin Reading

Traffic Commissioners for Great Britain

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Dear Mr Reading,

Please find attached our response to your request for information.

Yours sincerely

Information Access Officer
Jubilee House
Croydon Street
Bristol
BS5 0GB
Direct Line: 0117 954 2605
E-Mail: [email address]

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Dear Traffic Commissioners,
Thanks for the speedy response.

In addition to the above could you clarify a couple of points:

1) What are the procedures and criteria used when considering the suitablity of a site for licencing? Does the OTC actually have such procedures, or are applications granted simply on the absence of objections to a particular site? Please provide copies of any such procedures, the criteria used to consider the suitability of a site, and any method statement for the application of those criteria (if such exists).

2) Under what (if any) circumstances can an area of the public highway be considered for the granting of an Operating Centre Licence? For example, where an operator has a licenced centre on an industrial estate, can areas of roadway within the estate where there are no restrictions on parking be added to the licence as a separate Operating Centre?

Yours faithfully,

Colin Reading

Traffic Commissioners for Great Britain

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Dear Mr Reading,

Please find attached a response to your supplementary questions.

Yours sincerely

Information Access Officer
Jubilee House
Croydon Street
Bristol
BS5 0GB
Direct Line: 0117 954 2605
E-Mail: [email address]

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