Taxis

[Mayneway]

RE: Taxis

(28/02/2016 11:51)Quackdave Wrote:  I couldn't find one for Sefton, nor for Wirral or Knowsley. St Helens does have a static PDF of their register available from about a year and a half ago.

All four mention that the number of available licences is limited - Knowsley 220, Wirral 289, Sefton 271, St Helens 63.

I couldn't find any mention of such a limit on Liverpool's site, but I do wonder if they may have one (or be considering introducing one), and whether that might be a possible explanation for the several old taxis that are tested and licensed but not actually used - maybe it's to avoid their proprietor losing slots on the register.

All councils have limits on the number of hackney licenses available. This is something that's reviewed every few years. I don't think there's any cap on private hire plates available but taking it slightly off topic the same licensing departments grant street trading licences to ice cream vans and these are also now capped making a van and licence in one area quite expensive.

Your also right about the older vehiches retaining the licence but not being used. The hackney plate has to remain on a vehicle. So if a cabby wishes to retain a plate for whatever reason it has to remain on a tested vehicle hence why the vehicles you mention have MOT but not tax. When licensing panaks review the number of plates issued they can sometimes reduce the overall number which makes these 'stores' plates shoot up in value.