Licensing

Information and services in licensing

• Alcohol and entertainment licensing

  Information alcohol and entertainment licences

  • Premises license
  • Personal licence
  • Club premises certificate
  • Pending Licensing Act 2003 applications

  • Temporary events notices
  • Gambling license
  • Smoking in enclosed places

  

• Animal licensing

  Animal and zoo licences

  • Animal activity licences
  • Zoo licence
  • Dangerous Wild Animal licence

   

• Taxi and private hire licensing

  Information on taxis and private hire vehicles

  • Taxi and private hire licensing information
  • Driver's licence
  • Coronavirus (COVID-19)Safety guidance for taxis and passengers

  • Vehicle licences
  • Operator's licence
  • Passenger information
  • Wheelchair accessible taxis and private hire

• Trading licensing

  Find out how about trading licences

  • Pavement permits and licences
  • Sex establishment licence

  • Scrap metal licence
  • Street trading consent

• Other licensing

  Information on common licences

  • Caravan site licences
  • Charity collections
  • Houses in Multiple Occupation

  • Hypnotism licence
  • Special treatments licence

• Policies and procedures

  Our licensing policies and guidelines

  • BDC statement of licensing policy 2021
  • Gambling licensing policy statement 2019
  • Hackney carriage allocation policy 2014 
  • Private hire vehicle plate exemption policy 2015 
  • Sex establishments policy 2014
  • Street trading policy 2007

  • Taxi private hire driver criminal convictions policy 2018
  • Taxi private hire driver knowledge test exemption policy July 2013
  • Taxi private hire driver medical exemption policy 2018
  • Tax conditionality for taxi drivers, private hire operators and scrap metal dealers