Only complete this application if you have already successfully applied to be a licenced taxi driver.
Check what you need before you apply and what you need to upload on the application form.
Start your application for a new private hire driver licence
How to start your application for a new private hire driver licence.
Before you apply
Check you're eligible
Read our taxi licence declaration
If a declaration has been made on a previous application, you must disclose this in full again on any new application.
It is an offence knowingly or recklessly to make a false statement or to omit any material particular:
Give details of all:
- convictions - whether or not spent
- cautions
- conditional cautions
- Community Resolutions
- Anti Social Behaviour Orders
- Criminal Behaviour Orders
- County Court and High Court Injunctions, including Injunctions to prevent nuisance and annoyance or Fixed Penalty Notices (personally or business related) recorded against you and any Pending Proceedings
Note: Failing to disclose cautions or convictions or any of the above will be regarded as a serious breach of the terms of the licence and action will normally take place. An applicant’s failure to disclose any of the above will be taken into consideration when assessing their propriety to become a licenced driver.
Go to the Blue handbook for hackney carriage and private hire, drivers, vehicles and operators.
Apply for a new private hire driver licence
Only apply for this licence if you do not currently hold a hackney carriage or private hire driver licence and you've successfully applied to be a licenced taxi driver.
Make sure you've read all of the information in this guide before you start your application.
Privacy notice
Read the taxi licencing privacy notice and tick the box to confirm you understand how we'll use the information you give us in this form.