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Do I need a licence?

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  1. Do I need a licence?
  2. Selling alcohol, providing entertainment or late night hot food/drink
  3. Public events and street trading
  4. Street trading and special events
  5. Social, sporting or political members clubs
  6. Gambling machines, betting and lotteries
  7. Taxis drivers, vehicles and private hire operators
  8. Food premises and sales
  9. Animal related businesses
  10. Tattooing, piercing and electrolysis licences
  11. Houses in multiple occupation (HMO)
  12. Scrap metal businesses
  13. Camping, caravan and residential sites
  14. You are here: Sex shop and adult cinemas
  15. Felling trees and woodland
  16. Charity collection permits

Sex shop and adult cinemas

To run a sex shop (any premises selling sex toys, books or videos), or a venue where explicit films are shown to members of the public, you may need a licence.

Find out more.

 
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Licensing and permits

  • A-boards code of practice
  • Alcohol, event and entertainment licences
  • Animal related licences
  • Charitable collections policy
  • Charity collection permits
  • Contact the licensing team
  • Do I need a licence?
  • Holiday caravan/camp/touring site licence
  • Houses in multiple occupation (HMOs) licences
  • Pavement licences
  • Residential site licences and rules
  • Scrap metal licences
  • Sex shop and adult cinema licence
  • Smoking ban enforcement
  • Special treatments licences
  • Street trading policy
  • Taxi and private hire licences
  • Trading on streets and special events
  • Woodlands and felling licences

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