Rochdale Borough Council

Most popular licences

• Food business registration - includes market stalls, delivery vehicles and other moveable structures.
• Gambling act - licensing premises
• Landlord licence - includes Houses in Multiple Occupation (HMO) and Landlord Accreditation.
• Personal licence to sell alcohol
• ​Skip operators licence​
• Street collections licence - collecting money or selling items for charity in a public place.
• Street trading consent​ - selling items or food on the street.
• Street trading licence​ - there are no street trading licences, you'll require street trading consent.
• Street works licence - for carrying out street works or dig on the highway.
• Taxi and minicab licence​​ - for taxis and Hackney Carriages.

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​​​​​​​​Search the Public Register for up-to-date information on licence holders in the borough of Rochdale.

Please note this register only includes licences for the following areas: taxis, sex shops, sexual entertainment venues, motor salvage operators, scrap metal dealers, gambling, personal and premises registers.

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A to Z of licences

A

• Acupuncture, tattoo, piercing or electrolysis registration​
• Alcohol and entertainment licence
• Animal licence - for boarding animals, breeding dogs, hiring out horses, selling animals as pets or using or training performing animals.
• Animal movement licence

B

• Boarding animals licence - apply for an an animal licence.
• Body of Person's Approval (BOPA) licence - for organisations responsible for performances with multiple children performing in them.
• Busking and street performing licence

C

• Car boot sales licence​​​​
• ​​Caravan site licence
• Chaperone licence
• Child employment licence - for employers who want to hire a child.
• Child performance licence - for people responsible for a performance which will have a child performing in it.
• Civil marriage approved venue
• Club Premises Certificate - for social, sporting or political members clubs.
• Cooling tower notification

D

• Dog breeding licence - apply for an animal licence.
• Dangerous animals licence

E

• Environmental permits​ - for works including waste operations and waste mobile plants.

F

• Food business registration - includes market stalls, delivery vehicles and other moveable structures.

G

• Game dealing licence
• Gambling act - licensing premises - for operating, personal and premises licences.

H

• Hairdressing licence
• Highways projection licence - for the construction of a building which extends or overhangs part of the highway
• House in Multiple Occupation licence - for landlords who operate a House in Multiple Occupation.
• House-to-house collections licence - for small charities or local groups.

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K

L

• Landlord licence - includes Houses in Multiple Occupation (HMO) and Landlord Accreditation 

M

N

O

P

• Performing animals licence - apply for an animal licence.
• Personal licence to sell alcohol
• Pet shop licence​ - apply for an animal licence.
• Pleasure boat licence​

Q

R

• Regulation of Safety cert​​ificate - sports grounds 
• Riding establishments licence - apply for an animal licence.

S

• Scaffolding and hoarding licence
• Scrap Metal Dealers licence
• Second hand goods licence​
• Sex shop licence​
• ​Skip operators licence​
• Stage hypnotism licence​​
• Street cafe licence
• Street collections licence - collecting money or selling items for charity in a public place.
• Street trading consent​ - selling items or food on the street.
• Street trading licence​ - there are no street trading licences, you'll require street trading consent.
• Street works licence - for carrying out street works or dig on the highway.

T

• Temporary event notice (TEN)  - for holding a small event.
• Temporary Exemption Notice (TEN) for a House in Multiple Occupation
• Taxi and minicab licence​​ - for taxis and Hackney Carriages.

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V

W

X

Y

Z

• ​Zoo licence