Licensing - an introduction
The licensing team have responsibility for approximately eleven types of licences and registrations. These come under the following headings -
- Licensing Act 2003
- Taxis
- Society Lotteries
- Charitable street collections
- Charitable house to house collections
- Motor Salvage Operators
- Gaming machines
- Sex establishments
- Bingo
- Betting Shops
- Tables and Chairs
Please click on the items to the left of this page for further information.
The service is provided from 9:00am to 5:00 pm Monday to Friday.
Inspections and investigative work is carried out outside normal office hours where necessary. An out-of-hours emergency service includes the facility to respond to urgent licensing issues, which compromise crime and disorder, public health or may present a public nuisance.