South Wales entrepreneur Clayton Jones has ended his latest venture in the scheduled bus market, at around the time he was required to submit the results of an independent engineering audit of his Street Buses operation.

Jones was granted a licence for eight vehicles last December despite concerns from his local authority, Rhondda Cynon Taf County Borough Council, over the nature of Jones’ past bus operations (LTT 31 January 2022). Traffic commissioner Victoria Davies determined that all matters relating to previous operations would not be part of the evidence on which she would make her decision. She considered the steps he had taken to update his knowledge, and granted the licence with the condition that he would have an “independent systems compliance audit in nine months’ time”.