Licensing portal Visit the licensing portal to monitor the progress of a licensing application and make comments Licensing pre-application advice service We offer a pre-application advice service to help those considering making an application for certain licences Special treatment premises licence If you'd like to carry out certain special treatments, you'll need a licence Alcohol and entertainment licences If you want to sell alcohol or provide entertainment services, you'll need a licence Animal licences Get information on how to get animal licences including owning, selling, boarding and breeding them Building and construction licences Information about scaffold or hoarding licences and skip permits Business and street trading licences Find out about licences needed for businesses and street trading including busking, advertising boards and sex establishments Club Premises Certificate To authorise the supply of alcohol and regulated entertainment in a qualifying club you need a club premises certificate Environmental permits Information about environmental permits, chimney height approvals, cooling tower notification and authorisation under the Environmental Protection Act Explosives and fireworks licence The manufacture or storage of explosives (including fireworks) may require a licence Food licences To store, prepare, distribute or sell food on premises you need to be registered Gambling and lotteries licences Find out about licences for betting and gambling and small society lotteries Hypnotism authorisation If you wish to show, demonstrate or perform a hypnotism act in public, you must have authorisation Sports safety certificates You may need a safety certificate for any covered stand in your sports ground that holds 500 or more spectators or if your sports ground holds more than 10,000 spectators Weighbridge operator's licence Weighbridge operator's record the weight of lorries arriving and leaving a depot Street works, excavation, crane and oversail licences If an organisation intends to do works that involve excavating, placing traffic management and operating a crane or oversail Public licensing register Registers of various licences and permits in CSV format Delegated Licensing Decisions A written record of decisions made by officers under delegation from the Council Gambling Act and Licensing Act schedule of fees Schedule of fees relating to the Gambling Act 2005 and the Licensing Act 2003