Decision details

Mr Guy Wilkinson raised concern regarding the proposed removal of hackney carriage ranks in favour of pay and display parking bays, in particular the ‘troc rank’ near the British Heart Foundation shop leading onto Lord Street.

The Chair indicated that Hackney Carriage Ranks in Southport was on the agenda of the next Southport Area Committee to be held on 28 March 2012.

Mr Joe Bridson asked whether a rank was to be provided on South Road, Waterloo, near the new Wetherspoons public house.

The Chair indicated that he would contact Mr Steve Johnson, the Traffic Services Team Manager, and feed back on this matter to the hackney carriage trade representatives.

Arising from discussion, Mr Jarman also expressed concern that having previously been given permission by Merseytravel to rank on the South Road Bus terminal once the buses had stopped running, following discussions with the local community, police officers had recently stopped hackney cabs from using the bus terminus as a taxi rank and Mr Jarman wondered why the taxi trade had not been invited to participate in the community discussions.

Sergeant Scraggs indicated that he would contact Constable Carl McNulty, from the Crosby Neighbourhood Police Team, to find out where the communication to prevent hackney cabs ranking at the bus terminus had come from and feed this back to Mr Jarman.

RESOLVED:  That