Hackney Carriage Unmet Demand Survey 2025

Currently Southampton City Council limits the number of hackney carriage licences to 283. To maintain this number we need to conduct an unmet demand survey. We contract LVSA to carryout this survey on our behalf.

In addition to questions relating to unmet demand for hackney carriage services we are asking other questions relating to the hackney carriage and private hire trades. Please follow the link below to the trade survey and complete no later than 25^th May 2025.

Unmet Demand Survey 2025.

There is also a separate public survey being conducted. It will take some time to analyse the results of the survey before a report is submitted to the licensing committee later this year. We will keep the taxi trade reps informed of the progress of the analysis, its findings and when the licensing committee is going to convene to consider the report.