Applications and Decisions

Each traffic area publishes its own issue, usually every week, with a number and a date. A new application appears first under applications received. Statutory objectors (the police, local authorities and some trade bodies and unions) can object within 21 days of publication; the issue prints that objection deadline. The decision follows in a later issue, as a grant or a refusal.

Bus and coach (PSV) operators appear in a separate weekly bulletin, Notices and Proceedings, which we read in the same way: their grants are in new operator licences. Public inquiries listed in either bulletin are on upcoming public inquiries; licences revoked, surrendered or terminated have their own monthly lists at licences revoked, surrendered or terminated.

Companies are named. Sole traders and partnerships are counted, not named, because their operator name is usually a person’s name.