the thinker wrote:
grandad wrote:
If there are 182 people on the waiting list and they are going to issue 4 plates a year, the people at the bottom of the list are going to have to wait 45 years to get a plate. So if you go on the list when you are 20 years old, you will be retired before you get one.
The Halcrow survey dictated that York needed 15 plates to meet the unmet demand, which were issued to people on the waiting list, the Council in their wisdom decided to issue two more plates every six months for two years to meet the growing population within the city, after this time another survey would be carried out and should show that there is no unmet demand, so the area is still restricted, and there will still be a waiting list,there was also some conditions attached to the new plates that were issued which were, the vehicle had to be a side loading WAV that conformed to Euro 4 emission standards, once the survey shows no unmet demand, no more plates will be issued so there will still be a waiting list that gets longer every day as you would expect when something is being given away free.
Halcrow surveys usually now have a recommendation to issue a set number of Hackney Licenses if their survey shows that there is an Unmet Demand.
This was done in surveys conducted for Bristol & Manchester in recent years.
I remember reading their formula, calculations & reasoning in the Bristol Survey some years ago for issuing a set number of licenses there & although I have that survey on my computer, to post that formula & reasoning on here would take up too much room as it goes on for 8-10 pages. It also contains some mathematics & formulae that are not that easy to follow.
And nobody has ever challenged their formulae, reasonings or calculations, and without a challenge, what Halcrow are saying is ..... well we have conducted a survey, found that there is an Unmet Demand, calculated that the issue of x number of Hackney Licenses will satisfy that Unmet Demand, & recommend that the Council issue that number of plates over y months or immediately or whatever.
And as long as the Council do that, Halcrow claim that there will then be No Unmet Demand or that the Unmet Demand that they have identified in their survey will have been met by the issue of the new x number of plates.
They probably then get the next survey from that council to again assess the Unmet Demand or not.
But what about the wording of the 1985 Act, which stipulates Significant Unmet Demand, which Halcrow seem to have conveniently reduced to Unmet Demand.
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