RESEARCHED AUTHORITY
Canterbury
Canterbury City Council · Sources checked 13 September 2026
- Driver licensing
- Official route/source found
The application page requires a UK/EU licence held24 months and states no motoring convictions. Submit the medical form; an interview checks documents, medical and DBS matters.
- Vehicle licensing
- Official route/source found
Apply online for a one-year hackney carriage or private hire vehicle licence. The published annual charges are £466.96 for a hackney carriage (£161.62 electric) and £347.83 for private hire (£158.56 electric). Before buying, taxi companies can submit vehicle details for a council pre-purchase consultation; the response target is 48 hours. A pre-purchase discussion does not guarantee licensing: approval remains subject to inspection.
- Operator licensing
- Official route/source found
Businesses inviting or accepting private-hire bookings require an operator licence and must dispatch licensed vehicles with private-hire licensed drivers. The council offers two-year licences at £66.38 per vehicle or five-year licences at £165.95 per vehicle. These are the published application options; complete operating-base and DBS conditions still require policy extraction.
- Licensing fees
- Official route/source found
Current driver page lists one-year£301.21; three-year hackney/dual£476.65 and private-hire£472.93. These differ from the earlier2025 proposed schedule; use current HTML totals with no invented effective date.
- Taxi tariff
- Official route/source found
Current fare HTML: £4 first220 yards, then10p per98 yards; higher bands add50% or100%. Waiting/loading costs£1 per startedthree minutes in every band. Full time-band and distance-rounding review remains necessary; commencement date is unstated.
- Mandatory qualifications
- Official route/source found
Knowledge test, driving assessment and safeguarding training are discussed at interview. A comprehension test may be required where English is not the applicant's first language.
Withheld or still needing confirmation
- Vehicle/operator conditions and full fees outstanding.
- Night wording omits Friday-night/Saturday-morning explicitly; do not silently repair when encoding.
- Enrichment only. Vehicle gap remains; full operator conditions not exhaustively extracted.
- Preserve prior verified fields. Full current vehicle eligibility and document requirements remain incomplete. The September2024 policy PDF was recovered but a current application-page link/adoption check is unresolved, so its two-year first-registration limit was not promoted as confirmed current.