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Fees and charges (Services)

Fees and charges (valid from 1 April 2012 relating to the services provided by the Public Protection Services (ie. Environmental Health and Trading Standards).

Please see 'Fees and Charges (Licensing etc)' for details of these charges.

These relate to:

  • Food Safety and Courses
  • Pest Control
  • Environmental Health Service
  • Trading Standards

Food Safety and Courses

ServiceCharge (£)
Export Food Health Certificate319.00
Voluntary Surrender Certificate319.00 + 61.0/hr after 1st 4 hours
Voluntary Surrender Following Enforcement61.00 + 31.00 per half hour after 1st hour +  disposal costs if necessary

CIEH Level 2 Award in Food Safety in Catering

min 73.00 per person or 
655.00 per course

CIEH Level 2 Award - Health and Safety in the Workplace

min 73.00 per person or 
655.00 per course

Pest Control

Pest TypeCharge (£)  - Inclusive of VAT
Rats124.00
Mice124.00
Wasps65.00
Fleas130.00
Bed Bugs173.00
Cockroaches195.00
Pharaoh Ants/Ghost Ants216.00
Pests on commercial premisesPrice on request
Garden Ants75.00
Squirrels in domestic premises188.00

*There are no reductions for residents on benefits.

Environmental Health Service

ServiceCharge (£)
Solicitors enquiries regarding Environmental Health Issues 70.00
Complex solicitors enquiries regarding Environmental Health issues162.00
Charge for the costs involved in serving a Housing Act statutory notice433.00
Weekly rent for a pitch on the Powerscroft Road Travellers Site85.00
Providing a service to private landowners to deal with illegal gypsy/traveller encampments541 per case
ServiceCharge (£)Comment
Works in default fee

The full costs are recovered plus an administrative charge of 30% of the cost of work

The maximum amount recovered as an administrative charge is £6,000 per property

These are the costs incurred by the Council in carrying out works in default of the owner when they have been required by a statutory notice
Fee for collection of stray dogs100Reduced to £50 if it is the first time the dog is picked up and the dog has an identification tag or is chipped


Trading Standards

ServiceCharge (£)
1. Fees for the purposes of Section 11(4) of the 1985 Act
A. Linear Measures (with or without divisions or sub-divisions)14.00
B. Capacity Measures17.00

C. Cubic Ballast Measures (other than Brim measures)
    Each measures
    Cubic Ballast Measures (Brim measures)


221.00
95.00

D. Measuring instruments for measuring liquid fuel or lubricants, or mixtures thereof, each instrument
    (1) Container types, un-subdivided


54.00
    (2) Multi-outlet types (with a price-computing device and displays) Common to all grades (per nozzle)131.00
    (3) Other types (single with price-computing device) for retesting solely on the occasion of an adjustment in the price101.00
E. Measuring Instrument for intoxicating liquor, each instrument -
    (1) Not exceeding 150ml
    (2) Other
11.00
14.00
F. WEIGHTS11.00

G. Weighing Instruments
    (1) Instruments (other than automatic or totalising weighing machines, or machines designed to weigh loads in motion) - each
         instrument or (if fitted with two or more weigh tables or platforms connected to one or more indicating mechanisms), each 
         weigh table. Capacity, as marked on machine:

         Not exceeding 15kg
         Exceeding 15kg but not exceeding 100kg
         Exceeding 100kg but not exceeding 250kg
         Exceeding 250kg but not exceeding 1 tonne
         Exceeding 1 tonne bur nor exceeding 10 tonnes
         Exceeding 10 tonne but not exceeding 30 tonnes
         Exceeding 30 tonnes

Instruments as in (1) above, but incorporating electronic price computing with associated display printing facilities 150 per cent of the fee which would be otherwise payable, rounded up.





51.00
59.00
87.00
139.00
192.00
395.50
640.00

76.00

H. Measuring Equipment, for measuring liquid fuel in excess of 100 litres dispensed from road tankers -
    (1) Meter measuring systems, each system:
         Basic Fee
         Where more than one liquid is used in testing, for each additional liquid
    (2) Dipstick measuring system, each system:
         Basic fee (for calibration of each compartment and production of calibration chart)
         Initial dipstick
         Space dipstick
         Replacement dipstick
    (3) Replacement of parts without the need for re-calibration
    (4) Retest of ticket printer mechanism following jamming, where replacement parts are not fitted



149.00
41.00

187.00 16.00
13.00
33.00
69.00
39.00

I. Other Weighing or Measuring Equipment
For equipment other than the categories specifically described above, or equivalent to submitting for testing by means of statistical sampling techniques - per man / hour spent at the place or submission for the purposes of examination, testing or sampling of the equipment.

Per operative / hour spent at the place of submission of the equipment for the purposes of examination, adjustment, testing or reporting of the equipment.

83.00 

83.00