You can apply for a range of licences online on the GOV.UK website.
Animal boarding establishment licence
Application form: Application for a licence to operate an animal boarding establishment
Tacit Consent permitted?: Yes
Target processing period: 30 working days
Application form: Application to change an animal boarding establishment licence
Tacit Consent permitted?: Yes
Target processing period: 30 working days
Application form: Application to renew an animal boarding establishment licence
Tacit Consent permitted?: Yes
Target processing period: 30 working days
Pet shop licence
Application form: Application for a licence to keep a pet shop
Tacit Consent permitted?: No
Target processing period: 30 working days
Application form: Application to change a pet shop licence
Tacit Consent permitted?: No
Target processing period: 30 working days
Application form: Application to renew a licence to keep a pet shop
Tacit Consent permitted?: No
Target processing period: 30 working days
Scrap metal dealer registration
Application form: Application to register as a scrap metal dealer
Tacit Consent permitted?: No
Target processing period: 30 working days
Application form: Application to change a scrap metal dealer registration
Tacit Consent permitted?: No
Target processing period: 30 working days
Sex shop and cinema licence
Application form: Application for a sex shop and cinema licence
Tacit Consent permitted?: No
Application form: Application to change a sex shop and cinema licence
Tacit Consent permitted?: No
Street trading licence
Application form: Application for a street trading licence
Tacit Consent permitted?: Yes
Target processing period: 40 working days
Application form: Application to change a street trading licence
Tacit Consent permitted?: Yes
Target processing period: 40 working days
Club licensing
Application form: Application for a new club premises certificate
Tacit Consent permitted?: Yes
Target processing period: 40 working days
Application form: Application for a variation to a club premises certificate
Tacit Consent permitted?: Yes
Target processing period: 40 working days
Application form: Notification of change of details or club rules
Tacit Consent permitted?: Yes
Target processing period: 20 working days
Application form: Application for a minor variation to a premises or club licence
Tacit Consent permitted?: No
Target processing period: 20 working days
Application form: Make annual payment for a club licence
Tacit Consent permitted?: Yes
Target processing period: 20 working days
Application form: Application for a minor variation to a premises or club certificate
Street collection licence
Application form: Application to licence a street collection
Tacit Consent permitted?: Yes
Target processing period: 31 calendar days
Application form: Supply a return for a street collection
Tacit Consent permitted?: Yes
Target processing period: 31 calendar days
House-to-house collection licence
Application form: Application for a house-to-house collection licence
Tacit Consent permitted?: Yes
Target processing period: 31 calendar days
Application form: Supply a return for a house-to-house collection
Tacit Consent permitted?: Yes
Target processing period: 31 calendar days
Tattooists, piercing and electrolysis licence
Application form: Application for a licence to carry out acupuncture, tattooing, piercing and/or electrolysis
Tacit Consent permitted?: No
Riding establishment licence
Application form: Application for a licence to operate a riding establishment
Tacit Consent permitted?: Yes
Target processing period: 30 working days
Application form: Application to change a riding establishment licence
Tacit Consent permitted?: Yes
Target processing period: 20 working days
Zoo licence
Application form: Notification to operate a zoo
Tacit Consent permitted?: No
Target processing period: 60 days
Application form: Application for a licence to operate a zoo
Tacit Consent permitted?: No
Target processing period: 60 days
Application form: Application to change a zoo licence
Tacit Consent permitted?: No
Target processing period: 60 days
Application form: Application to renew a zoo licence
Tacit Consent permitted?: No
Target processing period: 60 days
Caravan and camping site licence
Application form: Application for a caravan and camping site licence
Tacit Consent permitted?: Yes
Target processing period: 60 working days
Application form: Application to change a caravan and camping site licence
Tacit Consent permitted?: Yes
Target processing period: 40 working days
Application form: Application to transfer a caravan and camping site licence
Tacit Consent permitted?: Yes
Target processing period: 40 working days
Premises licence
Application form: Application for a premises licence
Tacit Consent permitted?: Yes
Target processing period: 40 working days
Application form: Provisional statement
Tacit Consent permitted?: Yes
Target processing period: 40 working days
Application form: Application for need for a Designated Premises Supervisor to be disapplied
Tacit Consent permitted?: Yes
Target processing period: 20 working days
Application form: Application to vary a premises licence
Tacit Consent permitted?: Yes
Application form: Application to vary a premises licence to specify an individual as designated premises supervisor
Tacit Consent permitted?: Yes
Target processing period: 20 working days
Application form: Application to transfer premises licence
Tacit Consent permitted?: Yes
Application form: Notification of an interest in premises under section 178
Tacit Consent permitted?: Yes
Target processing period: 20 working days
Application form: Interim authority notice
Tacit Consent permitted?: Yes
Target processing period: 20 working days
Application form: Consent to transfer
Tacit Consent permitted?: Yes
Target processing period: 20 working days
Application form: Consent to be designated
Tacit Consent permitted?: Yes
Target processing period: 20 working days
Application form: Application for a minor variation to a premises or club licence
Tacit Consent permitted?: No
Target processing period: 20 working days
Application form: Notification of change of name or address
Tacit Consent permitted?: Yes
Target processing period: 14 calendar days
Application form: Request to be removed as designated premises supervisor
Tacit Consent permitted?: Yes
Target processing period: 20 working days
Application form: Make annual payment for a premises licence
Tacit Consent permitted?: Yes
Target processing period: 20 working days
Application form: Application for a minor variation to a premises or club certificate
Motor salvage operator registration
Application form: Application to register as a scrap metal dealer
Tacit Consent permitted?: No
Target processing period: 30 working days
Application form: Application to change a scrap metal dealer registration
Tacit Consent permitted?: No
Target processing period: 30 working days
Temporary Event Notice
Application form: Application for a Temporary Event Notice
Tacit Consent permitted?: Yes
Target processing period: 10 working days
Hypnotism permit
Application form: Application for consent to conduct an exhibition, demonstration or performance of hypnotism
Tacit Consent permitted?: Yes
Target processing period: 20 working days
Environmental permitting
Application form: Application for an environmental permit part A2
Tacit Consent permitted?: No
Application form: Application for an environmental permit part B
Tacit Consent permitted?: No
Application form: Application to change an environmental permit
Tacit Consent permitted?: No
Application form: Annual subsistence charge
Tacit Consent permitted?: Yes
Target processing period: 20 working days
Food business
Application form: Application to register a food business
Food premises approval
For businesses involved in handling meat, fish, egg or dairy products. See Local authority food establishment approval (England) on the GOV.UK website for full details.
Application form: Application for food premises approval
Tacit Consent permitted?: No
Application form: Application to change a food premises approval
Tacit Consent permitted?: No
