{"id":8084,"date":"2026-02-12T18:56:37","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T18:56:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/instituteoflicensing.org\/news_archive\/2026\/02\/12\/updated-lga-councillor-handbook-taxi-and-phv-licensing\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T18:56:37","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T18:56:37","slug":"updated-lga-councillor-handbook-taxi-and-phv-licensing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/instituteoflicensing.org\/news_archive\/updated-lga-councillor-handbook-taxi-and-phv-licensing\/","title":{"rendered":"Updated LGA Councillor Handbook: Taxi and PHV Licensing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>The LGA has recently updated its \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/www.local.gov.uk\/publications\/councillor-handbook-taxi-and-phv-licensing-2021\">Councillor Handbook: Taxi and Private Hire Vehicles (PHV) Licensing<\/a>&#8216; to reflect new statutory standards published by the Department for Transport in July 2020. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>This handbook aims to help Councillors understand some of the key issues concerning taxi and PHV licensing. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The LGA said &#8220;It is intended to be used as a starting point to explain some of the difficulties that can arise in this complex area of business regulation but is not a replacement for the training provided by a councillor&#8217;s own authority. I hope it is helpful and please do let me know if you have any questions.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The LGA has recently update its \u2018Councillor Handbook: Taxi and Private Hire Vehicles (PHV) Licensing&#8217; to reflect new statutory standards published by the Department for Transport in July 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/instituteoflicensing.org\/news_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/instituteoflicensing.org\/news_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/instituteoflicensing.org\/news_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/instituteoflicensing.org\/news_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/instituteoflicensing.org\/news_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/instituteoflicensing.org\/news_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8084\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/instituteoflicensing.org\/news_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/instituteoflicensing.org\/news_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/instituteoflicensing.org\/news_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}