Nottingham City Council will allow taxi drivers to use older vehicles in a move which the authority says will make the industry as "resilient as possible." The council says taxi driving provides nearly 3,000 jobs in Nottingham and that, given issues including reduced customer demand, a change in policy was needed to help the industry.
Councillor Audrey Dinnall, the chair of the committee, said: "We've listened to taxi drivers in Nottingham and these changes, supported by a public consultation, have been introduced because we understand the pressures felt by the trade in recovering from the pandemic, the national cost-of-living crisis and changes to customer demand.
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