RESEARCHED AUTHORITY
Peterborough
Peterborough Council · Sources checked 13 September 2026
- Driver licensing
- Official route/source found
Applicants must be at least 18 with a full UK driving licence held over one year. Upload enhanced DBS/Update evidence, medical, DVLA check, photo, right-to-work and required overseas good-conduct certificates; bring originals to interview.
- Vehicle licensing
- Official route/source found
Apply online with insurance and V5C/new-keeper slip, pass the council testing-centre inspection and take the pass sheet to the plate-collection appointment. The current-linked requirements distinguish new-entry and existing fleets: non-ULEV/ZEV first-licensing limits are 3 years HC and 4 PH; their maximum licensed ages are 11/9, while the existing-renewal cohort has 15/10, each capped at 31 December 2029. Non-ULEV/ZEV inspections become six-monthly at 6 years, with critical testing at 10 HC/8 PH. ULEV/ZEV first-entry maxima are 8/19 years and lifetime maxima 15/20; both need six-monthly inspection from 8 and critical testing from 12. The council's ULEV definition requires hybrid/E-REV and alternative-fuel V5 taxation with CO2 at most 105g/km; ZEV requires the specified electric/alternative-fuel class and zero CO2.
- Operator licensing
- Official route/source found
Supply driver/vehicle lists with licensing and insurance details, complaints and customer-service procedures and director/significant-control DBS and right-to-work evidence. Planning permission may be needed depending on fleet size.
- Licensing fees
- Official evidence found; detail still to confirm
The licensing hub updated 25 August 2026 still links a fee sheet headed 2024–25. That sheet quotes HC/PH driver new £496 and three-year renewal £339; HC vehicle new/annual renewal £231 and PH £192. Operator fees for 1/5 years are £245/£1,041 (1–5 vehicles), £478/£2,256 (6–10), £711/£3,440 (11–30), £956/£4,896 (31–50), and £1,189/£5,830 (51+). Vehicle tests are paid separately to the testing station. These are the council's currently linked published figures, not independently confirmed 2026–27 prices; confirm before payment.
- Taxi tariff
- Official evidence found; detail still to confirm
Dated official evidence, not a confirmed 2026 fare: East Cambridgeshire's 2022 comparison records Peterborough's first-mile charge as £3.30 at all times, with the included distance stated as 1,760 yards; its comparative two-mile figure is £5.00 in both listed periods. Peterborough's current licensing hub confirms the council's fare-setting/byelaw framework but the operative full fare card was not recovered in this pass. No later pulse, waiting, surcharge or holiday rule is inferred from the old comparison, and the £3.30/£5.00 figures must remain explicitly dated rather than offered as current journey prices.
- Mandatory qualifications
- Official route/source found
Provide Peterborough Regional College taxi general competency and an approved driving-assessment pass. The current approved driving providers are BLT Driver Training and Green Penny.
Withheld or still needing confirmation
- Full vehicle policy, fees and current tariff not extracted.
- The linked sheet's 2024–25 heading is older than the current hub; no newer operative schedule recovered.
- Preserve prior verified fields.
- 2022 neighbouring-authority comparison only; full current Peterborough card and legal commencement unknown.
- Waiting, distance pulse rounding, passenger extras and currentness unresolved.
- Current-linked 2022 thresholds contain distinct fleet cohorts; do not apply the existing-renewal maximum to a newly licensed vehicle.
- Detailed critical-test criteria, fees and all special-vehicle conditions remain outside this enrichment.