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Dear Transport for London,

Please can you confirm that Tfl have the authority to issue a taxi licence for any area they choose and limit a drivers right to ply for hire in an area, despite having completed the knowlege for that area and having previously been licensed for that area.

Please also confirm that this decision is made on an individual driver basis and not a sweeping motion for all drivers who have completed the same knowlege areas.

For example, if two drivers have completed the same knowlege for the same area, one driver may be issued a licence preventing them from working some of that area, whereas the other drivers licence would permit them to work all of it.

I would very much appreciate an explaination of the process and reasoning of such circumstances. It seems unfair not to grant both drivers the same advantage.

Yours faithfully,

J Morgan

FOI, Transport for London

Dear J Morgan

Thank you for your email. Your queries have been forwarded to the Taxi and Private Hire team who will respond to you directly.

Yours sincerely

Emma Flint
Principal Information Access Adviser
FOI Case Management Team
Transport for London
[TfL request email]

TPH CORRESPONDENCE, Transport for London

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Dear J Morgan

 

Thank you for your email of 2 September 2017 addressed to the Freedom of
Information (FOI) team. As your enquiry falls outside of the FOI scope,
your email has been forwarded to me for response.

 

Paragraph 27 of the London Cab Order 1934 allows Transport for London
(TfL) to limit a taxi driver’s licence to the area for which he has
demonstrated an "adequate knowledge". Under this provision TfL licenses
drivers either for the whole of the Greater London area or for one or more
of nine suburban sectors. This provision creates an underlying principle
that a driver is only licensed to ply for hire in those areas for which
that driver has demonstrated an adequate knowledge.

 

For your reference I have attached a picture of the Knowledge areas
including the nine suburban sectors.

 

Yours sincerely

 

 

Chelsee Mckinlay

Correspondence and Investigations Officer

Service Operations

Transport for London

 

 

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