Rochdale Borough Council

Please send all your messages and applications to us by emailing lic.applications@rochdale.gov.uk. This includes sending copies of original documents.

To avoid delay, do not post any applications to us as we can't guarantee we'll receive them. This does not apply to HMO (Houses in Multiple Occupation) licence applications so please continue to send these in the post.

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.

Search the public register for approved licence holders in the borough

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.

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

• 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.

I

j

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.

U

V

W

X

Y

Z

• ​Zoo licence