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Bolton
Bolton Council · Sources checked 13 September 2026
- Driver licensing
- Official route/source found
Current licensing hub and application-guidance route for hackney-carriage and private-hire drivers.
- Vehicle licensing
- Official route/source found
Current licensing hub and vehicle application-guidance route.
- Operator licensing
- Official route/source found
Current licensing hub and official operator application form route.
- Licensing fees
- Official route/source found
2026/27 charges: driver new £237 one year or £669 three years; hackney vehicle new £230, private-hire vehicle new £175; one-year operator starts at £326 for one vehicle and five-year operator starts at £1,515.
- Taxi tariff
- Official evidence found; detail still to confirm
PHTM's September 2026 trade table reports a two-mile tariff-1 fare of £6.00. This is a secondary benchmark only, not an adopted full council fare specification. Initial charge, distance/time pulses, waiting, extras and holiday schedules remain unverified; do not extrapolate this single example into other journey prices.
- Mandatory qualifications
- Official route/source found
Applicants complete Bolton College literacy/numeracy screening and local-area/taxi-law knowledge assessment, Trust 2 Ride safeguarding/disability awareness, and a practical taxi driving assessment from DriveSafe or Mitchells. Assessment documents must be within 12 months at application. They also need enhanced DBS with continuing Update Service subscription and Group 2 fitness using D4 plus the council medical declaration; medical must be less than four months old when the licence is issued. The guide requires a driving licence held more than 12 months and overseas good-conduct evidence where applicable.
Withheld or still needing confirmation
- No current official numeric hackney-carriage tariff and effective date were verified.
- Mandatory qualifications remain unresolved until the current guidance documents are fully extracted.
- This summary covers assessment and document requirements, not every conduct/licence condition. Guide fee figures are not reused as current fees.
- Preserve prior verified fields.
- Full current council card not recovered from council download hub.
- Secondary benchmark is partial evidence only; calculator remains unavailable from this record.