A-Z of licences

Licence summary

Information, application forms and guidance for many types of licences are available on this website. Many applications can be made and paid for online via the following pages.

• Animal licences
• Application relating to a structure projecting under or over a highway
• Approved food premises
• Artists licence
• Auction premises
• Boat licences
• Busking
• Camping site
• Caravan and camping site
• Car boot sale
• Consent to deposit items or carry out temporary excavations in the street
• Cooling tower notification
• Distribution of leaflets
• Environmental permit
• Food premises registration
• Gambling Act
• Hairdresser registration
• Highways related licences
• House in multiple occupation
• House to house collections
• Hypnotism authorisation
• Leisure and personal treatment licences
• Licensing Act (includes premises licences and temporary events notices)
• Market stall
• Motor salvage operation
• Pavement
• Performing animals registration
• Petroleum
• Pet shop
• Premises approval for marriage and civil partnerships
• Riding establishment
• Scrap metal dealers registration
• Safety certificate for sports stands
• Second hand goods dealers
• Sex shop and cinema
• Skin piercing (including tattoo, piercing and acupuncture)
• Skip operator
• Skip permit
• Sports ground safety certificate
• Street collection
• Street traders
• Taxi licensing (Hackney Carriages and private hire vehicles)
• Temporary events notice
• Weighbridge Operators Certificate
• Zoo