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Do I need a licence?

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  1. Do I need a licence?
  2. Selling alcohol, providing entertainment or late night hot food/drink
  3. Public events and street trading
  4. Street trading and special events
  5. Social, sporting or political members clubs
  6. Gambling machines, betting and lotteries
  7. You are here: Taxis drivers, vehicles and private hire operators
  8. Food premises and sales
  9. Animal related businesses
  10. Tattooing, piercing and electrolysis licences
  11. Houses in multiple occupation (HMO)
  12. Scrap metal businesses
  13. Camping, caravan and residential sites
  14. Sex shop and adult cinemas
  15. Felling trees and woodland
  16. Charity collection permits
  17. A-boards
  18. Pay for a licence

Taxis drivers, vehicles and private hire operators

If you want to work as a taxi driver in Lichfield district you will need to apply to us for a taxi driver's licence.

If you own your own vehicle(s) that you/other licenced taxi drivers want to use as a taxi/hackney or private hire vehicle, you will also need to apply to us to get your vehicle(s) licenced.

If you want to operate a private hire vehicle (i.e when customers call you to make bookings), you will also need to apply to us for a private hire operator's licence.

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