Minutes
Argyll and Bute Council · 19 March 2025
Back to Planning, Protective Services and Licensing Committee — 19 March 2025 and its agenda
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MINUTES of MEETING of PLANNING, PROTECTIVE SERVICES AND LICENSING COMMITTEE held BY MICROSOFT TEAMS on WEDNESDAY, 22 JANUARY 2025 Present: Councillor Kieron Green (Chair) Councillor John Armour Councillor Gordon Blair Councillor Jan Brown Councillor Fiona Howard Councillor Dougie Philand Attending: Stuart McLean, Committee Manager Susan Mair, Legal Manager Allan McCandlish, Objector Steve McIntyre-Stewart, Objector Samantha Border, Interested Party 1. APOLOGIES FOR ABSENCE Apologies for absence were received from Councillors Audrey Forrest, Amanda Hampsey, Daniel Hampsey, Graham Hardie, Andrew Kain and Peter Wallace. 2. DECLARATIONS OF INTEREST Councillor Fiona Howard declared a non-financial interest in both applications as she knew one of the interested parties well. She left the meeting at this point. The Committee resolved in terms of Section 50(A)(4) of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 to exclude the press and public for the following 2 items of business on the grounds that they were likely to involve the disclosure of exempt information as defined in Paragraph 3 respectively of Part 1 of Schedule 7A to the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973. 3. CIVIC GOVERNMENT (SCOTLAND) ACT 1982: APPLICATIONS FOR GRANT OF PRIVATE HIRE CAR LICENCES The Chair welcomed everyone to the meeting. In line with recent legislation for Civic Government Hearings, the parties (and any representatives) were given the options for participating in the meeting today. The options available were by video call, by audio call or by written submission. For these hearings Allan McCandlish, Objector, opted to proceed by video call and joined the meeting by MS Teams. Steve McIntyre-Stewart, Objector, opted to proceed by audio call and joined the meeting by telephone along with Samantha Border. There were 2 Private Hire Licence Applications before the Committee for consideration and before proceeding further the Chair invited the Legal Manager to provide an update to the Committee.
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The Legal Manager, Ms Mair, referred to a previous meeting on 18 December 2024 when the Committee agreed to a request by the Applicant to continue these applications to a future meeting to allow him the opportunity to seek legal advice. Ms Mair advised that the Applicant had made a further request to continue these applications to February to allow him to progress matters with his Solicitor and she gave the reasons for this request. Ms Mair also advised of further information that had been received from the Applicant and one of the Objectors, which Officers would require time to consider, and she recommended that the Committee agree to this request for a further continuation on the basis that this would be a final continuation, with the hearings for each application going ahead in February 2025. (a) Tartan Wolf Group, Cove, Helensburgh (Nissan Leaf) The Committee agreed to continue consideration of this application to a future meeting in February 2025. (Reference: Report by Head of Legal and Regulatory Support, submitted.) (b) Tartan Wolf Group, Cove, Helensburgh (Skoda Superb) The Committee agreed to continue consideration of this application to a future meeting in February 2025. (Reference: Report by Head of Legal and Regulatory Support, submitted.)