RESEARCHED AUTHORITY
Crawley
Crawley Borough Council · Sources checked 13 September 2026
- Driver licensing
- Official route/source found
Application, fee and face-to-face appointment with ID, right-to-work, English and overseas good-conduct evidence. Enhanced DBS if suitable Update registration absent, DVLA and national database checks. Normally3-year licence subject to restrictions.
- Vehicle licensing
- Official route/source found
HC numbers restricted and demand review every3 years. Read vehicle specifications before purchase/replacement. Council sets maximum meter fares; outside-district fare can be agreed before departure.
- Operator licensing
- Official route/source found
Applicants must be licensed to accept bookings and may need planning permission for a home base. The current-linked operator guidance requires a complete application and fee, a premises inspection and formal licensing-officer interview covering the licensing regime, policy, operating systems and procedures. Renewals must be submitted with documents and payment at least two months before expiry; late/incomplete renewals require a fresh application. Approval follows the fit-and-proper and knowledge assessment.
- Licensing fees
- Official route/source found
Live fee table: PH newvehicle withoutmeter£383.80/renew£349.70; withmeter£396.40/£362.30. Electric new£133.50/renew£177.10. HCdriver renewal1/2/3year£87.60/£174.70/£261.
- Taxi tariff
- Official evidence found; detail still to confirm
Tariff content checked 23 October 2026. The July 2026 council consultation proposed a 10 August start, subject to objections; a final operative outcome has not been recovered. The proposed £9-to-£11 increase belongs to tariff 3, not tariff 2. Proposed tariff 2 changes from £5.80 to £6.10; tariffs 1 and 4 change from £4.50 to £5.50 and £6.75 to £8.25. These remain proposal figures, with staged-distance and higher-party conditions unresolved. No model is enabled.
- Mandatory qualifications
- Official route/source found
Advanced driving, safeguarding, wheelchair accessibility, disability awareness, knowledge test and own-GP Group2 medical. English interview if no formal qualification; possible exemptions for returning/transferring drivers require council confirmation.
Withheld or still needing confirmation
- Full operator requirements and vehicle age/emission limits not extracted.
- Fee effective date not shown in extracted table.
- 2026dual-licence proposal not treated as implemented.
- Current hub directly links the November 2022 operator guidance, verified through live HTML. This is a processing summary, not an exhaustive document checklist. Preserve existing fees and other fields.
- Final consultation outcome and operative card unresolved.