Agenda Document Pack - Regulatory Functions Board - 20/08/2025
Renfrewshire Council · 20 August 2025
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13/08/2025 Notice of Meeting and Agenda Regulatory Functions Board Date Time Venue Wednesday, 20 August 2025 10:00 Remotely by MS Teams, Membership Councillor John McNaughtan (Convener): Councillor Cathy McEwan (Depute Convener): Councillor Audrey Doig: Councillor Neill Graham: Councillor Lisa-Marie Hughes: Councillor Janis McDonald: Councillor Kevin Montgomery: Councillor Sam Mullin: Councillor Emma Rodden: Councillor Andy Steel: Members of the Press and Public - contact details Members of the press and public wishing to attend the meeting should contact democratic- services@renfrewshire.gov.uk to allow the necessary arrangements to be made. Further Information - online meetings only This meeting is on-line only but is a meeting which is open to members of the public by prior arrangement. A copy of the agenda and reports for this meeting will be available for inspection prior to the meeting at the Customer Service Centre, Renfrewshire House, Cotton Street, Paisley and online at http://renfrewshire.cmis.uk.com/renfrewshire/CouncilandBoards.aspx For further information, please email democratic-services@renfrewshire.gov.uk MARK CONAGHAN Head of Corporate Governance Page 1 of 12
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13/08/2025 Recording of Meeting This meeting will be recorded for subsequent broadcast via the Council's internet site. If you have any queries regarding this please contact committee services on democratic- services@renfrewshire.gov.uk To find the recording please follow the link which will be attached to this agenda once the meeting has concluded. Meeting Recordings Please follow the below links to access the recordings for this meeting: https://youtu.be/gE8HOH6W0Uc https://youtu.be/zQ-UUQwjoEY https://youtu.be/D_4swyUyUd0 Page 2 of 12
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13/08/2025 Items of business Apologies Apologies from members. Declarations of Interest and Transparency Statements Members are asked to declare an interest or make a transparency statement in any item(s) on the agenda and to provide a brief explanation of the nature of the interest or the transparency statement. 1 Grant of Late Hours Catering Licence – Personal Appearance Submit the undernoted application for grant of a Late Hours Catering Licence. The applicant has been asked to appear personally:- (a) Applicant: DPK Foods Limited Premises: Dominos Pizza, 41 Gauze Street, Paisley, Activity: Pizza take-out and delivery Operating hours: Sunday to Thursday 11.00pm to 1.00am, Friday and Saturday 11.00pm to 2.00am. 2 Renewal of Late Hours Catering Licences Submit the undernoted applications for renewal of Late Hours Catering Licences:- (a) Applicant: WM Morrisons Supermarkets Premises: Morrisons, Anchor Mill, Paisley Activity: Supermarket Operating hours: Monday to Sunday 11.00pm to 5.00am Licence No.: LHC-087 (b) Applicant: WM Morrisons Supermarkets Premises: Morrisons, 30 Napier Street, Johnstone Activity: Supermarket Operating hours: Monday to Sunday 11.00pm to 5.00am Licence No.: LHC-086 3 Landlord Registration - Personal Appearances Submit the undernoted applications for Landlord Registration. The applicants have been asked to appear personally:- (a) Applicant: Paul Molloy (b) Applicant: Elaine Moynihan Registration No.: 439787/350/04241 Page 3 of 12
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13/08/2025 4 Surrender and Re-issue of Taxi Operator’s Licence Submit the undernoted application for the surrender and re-issue of a Taxi Operator’s Licence:- Present Operator: Javeed Iqbal Proposed Operator: Naveed Iqbal Licence No.: TX166 5 Grant of Private Hire Car Operator’s Licence – Personal Appearance Submit the undernoted application for grant of a Private Hire Car Operator’s Licence. The applicant has been asked to appear personally:- James Campbell 6 Renewal of Private Hire Car Operator’s Licence – Personal Appearance Submit the undernoted application for renewal of a Private Hire Car Operator’s Licence. The applicant has been asked to appear personally:- Applicant: Shamshad Hashimi Licence No.: PH1344 7 Variation of Private Hire Car Operators’ Licences (a) Applicant: John Sutherland Variation: exception to policy Licence No.: PH1123 (b) Applicant: Gavin McKerrow Variation: exception to policy Licence No.: PH1503 EXCLUSION OF PRESS AND PUBLIC The Board may by resolution exclude the press and public from the meeting during consideration of the following items of business as it is likely, in view of the nature of the business to be transacted, that if members of the press and public are present, there could be disclosure to them of exempt information as defined in paragraph 3 of Part I of Schedule 7A of the Local Government (Scotland) Act, 1973. Page 4 of 12
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13/08/2025 8 Grant of Private Hire Car Operator’s Licence – Personal Appearance Submit the undernoted application for grant of a Private Hire Car Operator’s Licence. The applicant has been asked to appear personally:- Mohammad Nasir Adjournment The meeting will adjourn following consideration of application 9(f) and reconvene at 1.30pm. 9 Grant of Private Hire Car Driver's Licences Submit the undernoted applications for grant of Private Hire Car Drivers’ Licences. Applicant (b) has been asked to appear personally together with Police Scotland who has submitted an objection to the application:- (a) Mohammed Rafi Ahmadi (b) James McHugh (c) Zulfiqar Ali Gailan (d) Shade Mosa Aga (e) Bal Kumar Malepati (f) Gianluca Nettuno (g) Halwes Rasuli (h) Muhammad Waqas Najmi (i) Ahmed Omer Abakar (j) Francis Osar Odiase (k) Salman Ali 10 Grant of Taxi Drivers' Licences - Personal Appearances Submit the undernoted applications for grant of Taxi Drivers’ Licences. Applicants (a) and (b) have been asked to appear personally together with Police Scotland who has submitted an objection to application (a) and a representation to application (b):- (a) Robert Crosbie (b) Gurpinder Singh Kamboj (c) Muhammad Rizwan Aziz 11 Renewal of Taxi Driver's Licence – Personal Appearance Submit the undernoted application for renewal of a Taxi Driver’s Licence. The applicant has been asked to appear personally together with Police Scotland who has submitted a representation to the application:- Applicant: Robert Roulston Licence No.: T0096 Page 5 of 12
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13/08/2025 12 Exemption from Mobility Assistance Duties – Personal Appearance Submit the undernoted application for exemption from mobility assistance duties under the Equality Act 2020. The applicant has been asked to appear personally:- Applicant: Archie McLellan Licence No.: T0099 13 Variation of Taxi Operator’s Licence – Personal Appearance Submit the undernoted application for variation of a Taxi Operator’s Licence. The applicant has been asked to appear personally:- Licence holder: Archie McLellan Variation: exception to policy and standard condition 22 to operate a saloon car Licence No.: TX090 14 Renewal of Taxi Operators’ Licences Submit the undernoted applications for renewal of Taxi Operators’ Licences:- (a) Applicant: Stephen Heron Licence No.: TX205 (b) Applicant: Vincent Dobbins Licence No.: TX045 15 Surrender and Re-issue of Taxi Operator’s Licence Submit the undernoted application for the surrender and re-issue of a Taxi Operator’s Licence:- Present Operator: Janice Allan Executor of Michael Allan Proposed Operator: Robert Anderson Licence No.: TX212 16 Landlord Registration – Personal Appearance Submit the undernoted application for Landlord Registration. The applicant has been asked to appear personally:- Applicant: Stewart Clow Registration No.: 411376/350/25291 Page 6 of 12
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13/08/2025 17 Registration of Private Landlords: Applications refused under delegated authority Report by Director of Finance & Resources. 7 - 10 Page 7 of 12
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___________________________________________________________________ To: Regulatory Functions Board On: 20th August 2025 ___________________________________________________________________ Report by: Director of Finance and Resources ___________________________________________________________________ Heading: Registration of Private Landlords: Applications refused under Delegated Authority ___________________________________________________________________ 1. Summary 1.1 The purpose of this report is to provide a further update to the Board in relation to applications for landlord registration refused under powers delegated to officers following the meeting of the Board on 18th August 2021. Previous updates were given to the Board at its meetings on 3rd February, 8th June and 26th October, 2022, and 1st June 2023. ___________________________________________________________________ 2. Recommendations 2.1 It is recommended that the Board note the contents of the report. ._________________________________________________________ 3. Background 3.1 On 18th August 2021, the Board considered a report by the Director of Finance and Resources relative to outstanding applications for private landlord registration where landlords had not confirmed their compliance with regulatory requirements set out in regulations made under the terms of the Antisocial Behaviour etc. (Scotland) Act 2004 (“the 2004 Act”). The report set out options to facilitate determination of these applications. Item 17 Page 9 of 12
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3.2 The Board agreed that it be recommended that the Scheme of Delegated Functions be amended to include a delegation to officers to refuse applications for landlord registration where the requirements set out in regulations made under the 2004 Act, and detailed at Paragraph 3.3 of the report considered at the above meeting, are not met, subject to regular reports being submitted to the Board detailing the applications refused. This delegation subsequently came into effect after the meeting of Council on 30th September 2021, when the Minute of the Board’s meeting of 18th August 2021 was approved. 3.3 In the report of 18th August 2021, officers indicated that it was anticipated that any power delegated to officers would not be used until two communications had been issued to applicants allowing them an opportunity to demonstrate their compliance. Accordingly, the practice adopted by officers has been to issue two separate letters to non- compliant landlords, allowing them periods of 28 days and, thereafter, a further 14 days to confirm their compliance. 3.4 Similar to the position at the time of the previous reports, the majority of landlords written to since the last update to the Board were able to confirm compliance within the above periods, allowing their applications for landlord registration to be granted. Although non-compliance is still being declared on a significant number of applications for landlord registration, the number of applications able to be resolved in response to the above correspondence has improved. 3.5 Following the previous update to the Board in June 2023, no further applications were refused by officers during 2023 and none were refused in 2024. However, during 2025 to the present date, eight applications have been refused by officers due to failure to confirm full compliance with landlords’ legal responsibilities. _________________________________________________________________ Implications of the Report 1. Financial – Nil 2. HR & Organisational Development – Nil 3. Community/ Council Planning – Nil 4. Legal – as detailed in the report Page 10 of 12
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5. Property/Assets – Nil 6. Information Technology – Nil 7. Equality & Human Rights - The Recommendations contained within this report have been assessed in relation to their impact on equalities and human rights. No negative impacts on equality groups or potential for infringement of individuals’ human rights have been identified arising from the recommendations contained in the report, as the report only provides the Board with an update on refused applications for landlord registration as previously requested by the Board. 8. Health & Safety - Nil 9. Procurement – Nil 10. Risk - Nil 11. Privacy Impact – Nil 12. Climate Risk- Nil 13. Children’s Rights- the recommendations in the report are not considered to be incompatible with the UNCRC 14. Cosla Policy Position – Nil _________________________________________________________ List of Background Papers- None. ___________________________________________________________________ Author: Douglas Campbell, Managing Solicitor (Licensing), 0141-487-1096, douglas.campbell@renfrewshire.gov.uk Page 11 of 12
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