RESEARCHED AUTHORITY
Thanet
Thanet District Council · Sources checked 13 September 2026
- Driver licensing
- Official route/source found
Private-hire applicants must be at least21 and have held a full UK driving licence for more than12 months. Enhanced DBS and fitness/propriety checks apply. Submit the form to licensing@thanet.gov.uk. The current hub links a2026–2030 licensing policy.
- Vehicle licensing
- Official route/source found
New private-hire vehicles first pass a council visual inspection, then attend an approved garage with the issued paperwork for a compliance certificate and checklist. Submit those documents, completed application, ownership evidence or new-keeper slip and current hire-and-reward insurance to licensing@thanet.gov.uk. The 2026–27 standard new fee is £402.50 including plate and bracket; wheelchair-accessible or hybrid £366; electric £37.50. The page links the 2026–2030 policy; these application facts do not establish every technical vehicle condition.
- Operator licensing
- Official route/source found
Operator licences last five years. Fees for 1 April 2026–31 March 2027 are £770 for a new licence and £707 for renewal. Check whether the premises need planning permission, then send the completed form to licensing@thanet.gov.uk. The linked checklist requires ID, right-to-work evidence, Basic disclosure and a booking/dispatch employment policy. Each company director supplies a Basic disclosure unless their driver Enhanced DBS and Update Service already apply. Operators must submit a written approach to employing ex-offenders in booking/dispatch roles. Renewal requires an HMRC tax-check code, with each partner supplying tax-check information. The form records operating bases and management details; licences specify a vehicle limit, amendable for a fee.
- Licensing fees
- Official evidence found; detail still to confirm
For 1 April 2026–31 March 2027, the council's new hackney-carriage driver application page gives £284.30 total: £214 application fee, £20.80 driver badge and £49.50 enhanced DBS. The new licence is issued for three years. The knowledge test must be passed before applying, but its fee is not included in this breakdown. This verified total is not a vehicle, operator or renewal licence price.
- Taxi tariff
- Official evidence found; detail still to confirm
The 17 March 2026 board agreed a revised fare table. The 26 March statutory notice gave 20 April 2026 as commencement if no objections were received by 9 April; a final no-objection outcome has not been independently confirmed. The approved table lists £3.80/£5.70/£7.60 initially for 450 yards or 50 seconds, then 30p/45p/60p per 215 yards or 20 seconds. Tariff 1: 06:00–midnight excluding bank holidays; tariff 2: midnight–06:00, bank holidays except Christmas/New Year's Day, and Christmas/New Year's Eves 18:00–23:00; tariff 3: Christmas Eve 23:00 through midnight 26 December and New Year's Eve 23:00 through midnight 1 January. Journeys outside Thanet may be agreed in advance, otherwise tariff 2 applies except tariff 3 festive periods. September PHTM reports £8.30 for two miles, corroborating the revised schedule but not replacing final official commencement proof.
- Mandatory qualifications
- Official route/source found
The council requires driver tests before granting the licence and provides knowledge-test booking guidance. Full test modules and current qualification conditions remain unextracted.
Withheld or still needing confirmation
- Complete adopted policy, fees, tariff, vehicle and operator conditions remain to extract.
- Current vehicle, operator and renewal licence fees remain unverified in this enrichment.
- Knowledge-test and medical costs are outside the verified breakdown.
- Preserve previously verified fields. The linked form includes an old rehabilitation-period table: do not reproduce it as current law. Full ongoing conditions and disclosure renewal frequency remain to be checked.
- Conditional statutory commencement remains unconfirmed; publish approved schedule with caveat, not an unqualified current calculator tariff.
- Extras and exact distance/time part-rounding not fully verified in this pass.
- Full 2026–2030 age/emissions and hackney-carriage specifications not extracted in this enrichment.
- Preserve prior verified fields.