NF wrote:
I punted my £700 on an application too.
The council are in the process of obtaining an extension to the six month period in my case too.
Thats where the similarity ends.
I made myself aware of all the parameters and possible outcomes, and having done so I made my application.
Nobody twisted my arm, and if I lose this time then I do so having gone into the whole process with my eyes open.
And for the record, I never even met the ubiquitous Mr Skull until months after my application was lodged.
If you were not in full command of the facts prior to the submission of your application then that is a matter for you, no-one else.
Couple of things.
The £700 is tax deductable. And, are you meekly going to accept the council retaining the full fee in the event your application is refused.
The £700 figure - which the council has never justified, it merely being an arbitrary figure - is allegedly the amount required to rocess a full successful application. This would include all the administration associated with the new licence. Plates. Initial testing of the vehicle. Operators paperwork. vehicle paperwork. None of this would happen in the event of rejection of the application. So why should the council be allowed to retain this portion of the "application" fee which doesn't apply. (It's worth bearing in mind that those who are on the "interested parties" list only submitted £200 with their application. And, have those who have had their applications rejected been placed on this list?
The licences are only rejected because the council has "proven" no significant unmet demand via the jacob report. A report so fundamentally flawed as not to prove the council's position. Are you, and the others involved, going to allow this to go unchallenged.
200 guys wanting their own plate (and there's already around 100 at the airport) each paying a paltry 100 bucks, would allow a serious challenge to the Jacob report in a judicial review/licence application appeal in the Sheriff Court.
Why not?
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