Applications for licences/permits for - sex establishment.
Contact Details | Online Services | |
Phone: | 024 7637 6222 | |
Fax: | 024 7637 6435 | |
Email: | ||
Service Unit: | Environmental Health | |
Schedule 3 of the Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1982, covers the licensing of sex shops and sex cinemas. All applications must be advertised in the local press. In addition a notice must be displayed outside the premises. NBBC is responsible for processing applications and issuing of licences for premises in its area.
How to Apply
- An annual application must be submitted along with the fee (form below).
- The current fee is £3,245 per annum (the fee for transfer of a licence is £500).
- Applications are subject to police consultation and public notice as described above.
- There is no public register of applications.
Applicants
- Must be at least 18 years old
- Must not be disqualified from holding a licence
- Must have been resident in the UK at least six months immediately before the application or, if a body corporate, must be incorporated in the UK
- Must not have been refused the grant or renewal of a licence for the premises in question within the last 12 months unless the refusal has been reversed on appeal.
Conditions
Applications will not be processed if the appropriate fee is not submitted with your application. See the document below for details of Standard Conditions attached to licences (other conditions may be attached to specific licences).
Failed application redress
Please contact the Licensing Service in the first instance.
Any applicant who is refused a licence, or refused the renewal of a licence, may, within 21 days of being notified of the refusal, appeal to the local magistrates' court.
However, the right to appeal does not apply where the licence was refused on the grounds that:
- The number of sex establishments in the area exceeds the number which the authority consider is appropriate;
- The grant of the licence would be inappropriate considering the character of the area, the nature of other premises in the area, or the premises themselves.
An appeal against a decision made at the Magistrates Court may be appealed at the Crown Court.
Licence holder redress
Please contact the Licensing Service in the first instance.
A licence holder who wishes to appeal against a condition can appeal to a local magistrates' court.
Consumer complaint
We would always advise that in the event of a complaint the first contact is made with the trader by you - preferably in the form a letter (with proof of delivery). If that has not worked, if you are located in the UK, Consumer Direct will give you advice. From outside the UK contact the UK European Consumer Centre .
Other redress
Licence holders may at any time apply to the authority for a variation of the terms, conditions or restrictions in their licence.
If an application for a variation is refused, or if the licence is revoked, the licence holder may, within 21 days of being notified of the imposition of, or the refusal to vary, the term, condition or restriction in question, or of the revocation, appeal to the local magistrates' court.
A licence holder may also appeal to the crown court against a decision of a magistrates' court.
Any person wishing to object to an application for the grant, renewal or transfer of a licence may give written notice of their objection to the relevant authority, stating the grounds of the objection, within 28 days of the date of the application.
