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P CASE FOUR
Page 24
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Tribunal says TAO could have helped more
AN OPERATOR WHO failed to provide required information on finances and parking has lost his appeal against the refusal of his bid for a two-truck 0-licence.
But the Transport Tribunal did criticise the Traffic Area Office for not being more helpful when the applicant's advert contained an incomplete address.
North Eastern Traffic Commissioner Tom Macartney rejected the application by Newark-based Robin Kurzaj, trading as RIK Construction. He had applied for a two-vehicle licence based at the Staunton Industrial Estate.
The application with an incomplete address was published in a newspaper that did not circulate locally.
On 25 February, the Traffic Area Office wrote asking for information about Kurzaj's finances. convictions and the amount of available space for parking. The letter also stated that the advertisement was unacceptable.
On the same day, Kurzaj wrote enclosing an advert in another newspaper, still with the incomplete address.
The Traffic Area Office wrote saying that the information needed had not been received.
The application was refused on 24 April because the amount of parking space had not been clarified; insufficient finances were shown in the bank statements submitted over the three-month period; and the incomplete address was still in the ad.
The Transport Tribunal said it was unfortunate that the TAO did not point out the incompleteness of the address when the second ad was required. Kurzaj should have been provided with more assistance.
Licensing arrangements had been centralised and this was one of those cases in which something had been lost via that approach.
However, that did not help Kurzaj's failure to address his financial resources and the extent of his parking permission.