RESEARCHED AUTHORITY
Malvern Hills
Malvern Hills District Council · Sources checked 13 September 2026
- Driver licensing
- Official route/source found
Current policy requires applicants over 21, a UK driving licence held for three years, right to work and fitness/propriety. Use the council application route through Worcestershire Regulatory Services.
- Vehicle licensing
- Official route/source found
Submit the council vehicle application, supporting documents and fee. Check current vehicle specifications before purchase; the policy and application route are linked.
- Operator licensing
- Official route/source found
A private-hire base in the district requires an operator licence. Submit the operator application and fee through Worcestershire Regulatory Services. Hackney drivers taking their own bookings do not require a PH operator licence.
- Licensing fees
- Official evidence found; detail still to confirm
For 1 April 2026–31 March 2027, HC and PH vehicle licences are £348; fully electric vehicles £0. Dual and PH driver licences £314. Knowledge test £27, PH-to-dual upgrade £28, DBS £69. Five-year operators are published as 1–3 vehicles £893 and '3+' £1,016: exactly three vehicles overlaps, so confirm that boundary. A four-month temporary HC licence is £262; the table duplicates that HC label, so no separate PH temporary rate is inferred. Driver and ordinary vehicle durations are not stated in this fee table.
- Taxi tariff
- Official route/source found
Current linked card effective 1 July 2022: first 1,610 metres £4.20/£6.30/£8.40, then 21p/32p/42p per 134.17 metres. Waiting 30p/45p/60p per minute. Night, Sundays, Christmas/New Year's Eve and holidays use higher tariffs.
- Mandatory qualifications
- Official route/source found
Competency certificate, enhanced DBS/Update Service, DVLA check and Group 2 medical. Hackney applicants also take the council topographical test. Overseas residence of three continuous months after eighteen requires criminal-record/good-character evidence.
Withheld or still needing confirmation
- 2026/27 fee landing identified but tariff-specific licence fee rows could not be retrieved; no numeric licence fees asserted.
- Full licensing conditions and vehicle age exceptions remain to be extracted.
- Resolve operator exactly-three-vehicle band overlap; driver and vehicle terms not stated. Indexed official current HTML recovered while direct fetch failed.