RESEARCHED AUTHORITY
Waverley
Waverley Borough Council · Sources checked 13 September 2026
- Driver licensing
- Official route/source found
Apply online with five-year address history, DVLA code, right-to-work evidence, applicable tax-check code and supporting identification. Police, medical and driving records are checked; renewals are everythree years. Overseas good-conduct evidence is requested where UK residence is underfive years.
- Vehicle licensing
- Official route/source found
The guidance states vehicles need testing at least annually and an annual vehicle licence. Full age, emissions and accessibility specifications remain unextracted.
- Operator licensing
- Official route/source found
Operator licences normally last five years and must be renewed before expiry. Maintain an office or address within Waverley and public-liability insurance covering employees, vehicles and drivers under the business's control. Comply with premises planning and other business requirements. A knowledge test may be required if not already passed; the council assesses fitness and propriety. Bookings for Waverley-licensed private hire drivers and vehicles require an operator licence issued by Waverley.
- Licensing fees
- Official evidence found; detail still to confirm
The current council fee pages show a three-year new driver licence £332 and renewal £191; exceptional one-year licences have the same prices. Knowledge retest/non-attendance is £115 and PH-to-hackney transfer £146. An annual vehicle licence including one test is £317, plus a £125 second instalment for vehicles over five years. Disabled-access vehicles are shown at £158 plus £62.50 if over five years; failure retest or missed test £79. The operator page labels new non-driver £212, new licensed-driver £339 and renewal £218: these labels are reproduced as printed, not silently reversed.
- Taxi tariff
- Official evidence found; detail still to confirm
Current official page, updated June 2022 and freshly fetched September 2026: T1 daily 07:00–23:00 starts £2.40 Monday–Saturday/£3 Sunday for 128 yards or 22 seconds, then 20p per 128 yards/22 seconds. T2 23:00–07:00, public holidays except festive double rate, and New Year's Eve 18:00–23:00 starts £3.60 then 30p on the same units. T3 doubles basic fare Christmas Eve 23:00 through 27 December 07:00 and New Year's Eve 23:00 through 2 January 07:00. Printed first-mile values £4.96/£5.56 Sunday/£7.43 night/£9.91 festive differ from simple started-pulse arithmetic, so calculator withheld. Printed further-mile amounts £2.76/£4.13/£5.52. Booking extra 60p only away from rank/street hailing and disclosed at booking; each additional passenger 30p; soiling £100; luggage free. Outside-borough fare remains on this scale unless differently agreed beforehand; VAT included where applicable.
- Mandatory qualifications
- Official route/source found
A verbal knowledge test follows satisfactory application checks. The process includes driving-proficiency assessment, medical, DBS Update registration and vulnerable-person exploitation training. Do not pay outside-provider charges until instructed by the licensing team.
Withheld or still needing confirmation
- Current complete council fees, operator conditions and numeric fare table not extracted.
- Provider indicative prices omitted because not independently current-verified.
- No commencement date is displayed on these fee pages. Operator new-driver/non-driver labels are counterintuitive and differ in ordering from an older committee schedule; confirm category before paying. Third-party assessments/medical costs are not included. Full fee evidence is partial pending operator-label reconciliation.
- Preserve prior fields. Exact fee and full ongoing conditions/DBS recency remain to be added.
- Printed mile totals and pulse calculations need reconciliation; no exact legal commencement day beyond June2022 page update.
- Time/distance interaction and pulse rounding not inferred.