Renewing your proprietor’s licence

Where possible, we will send you a reminder by email or text to renew your licence before it expires. 

It is your responsibility to ensure you renew your hackney carriage or private hire vehicle licence before it expires.

We strongly advise you to allow plenty of time and book an appointment that falls at least two to four weeks before your licence expires.

If your licence has expired

We can only renew an expired licence in exceptional circumstances or if you have missed the renewal by a couple of days. If you let your licence expire and make a request for a late renewal, we will ask you to provide evidence of your exceptional circumstances.

If we are not satisfied, we will not allow the renewal. In those circumstances, you would have to make a new application. 

This may have significant implications around the vehicle specification, as we will only accept certain criteria for new vehicles.

Renewal criteria

All renewal criteria for a private hire or hackney carriage vehicle proprietor’s licence are identical to the requirements for a new licence.