At the General Purposes Licensing Committee on Monday, 22 September 2025, the Committee agreed to align with Local Government Reorganisation to postpone the final phase that all Hackney Carriage vehicles must meet the ultra-low emission vehicle standard until the establishment of the new unitary council, aligning the policy with wider structural changes and enabling consistent standards across the new licensing authority.

Council is recommended to:

1.    Agree that the adoption of the Hackney Carriage Vehicle Emission Standards aligns with Local Government Reorganisation.

The report will be published within a supplement ahead of the meeting.

This report was deferred to a later meeting. The Monitoring Officer clarified that members would not be able to ask questions or discuss the report at this stage, but that the report would return to members for consideration later and that a full briefing would be provided to all members in due course.