The Licensing Service administers and enforces a variety of licences required by national law. This involves around 3,000 applications for licences, permits and registrations each year covering a diverse range of differing types of licence applications ranging from Acupuncture to Zoos.
Some licences will require a fee and/or some accompanying documentation. For a full list of what is required, please see the following document:
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Listed below are the premises or activities for which Licences, Registrations or Permits are needed. These may not be the only licence which you will need, but if you or your business includes any of these activities, you will need to make sure you first have a licence issued by the Council.
Information relating to public registers can be found here
- Acupuncture
- Animal Boarding Establishments
- Auction Premises
- Busking
- Car Boot Sales
- Camping and Caravan sites
- Club Premises Certificate
- Cooling Towers
- Environmental Permitting
- Electrolysis
- Food Premises Approval
- Food Premises Registration
- Hairdressers
- House in Multiple Occupancy
- House to House Collections
- Hypnotism
- Massage and Special Treatments
- Occupation of a road in connection with building work
- Pavement Cafes
- Performing Animals Registration
- Pet Shops
- Petroleum Storage
- Piercing
- Pleasure Boats
- Portable Traffic Lights
- Premises for Civil Marriage and Civil Partnership
- Premises Licence
- Riding Establishments
- Scaffolding
- Scrap Metal Dealer
- Second Hand Dealers
- Sex Shop & Cinema
- Shop Front or Pavement Displays
- Skip Permit
- Skip Operator
- Sports Ground Safety Certificates
- Sports Ground Safety Certificates for Regulated Stands
- Street Collections
- Street Trading
- Structures over or under the Highway
- Tattooing
- Temporary Event Notice
- Temporary Road Closure
- Weighbridge Operators
- Zoos
