Licensing

This page contains information on the licences and permits that are issued by Waltham Forest as a local authority, as well as some that are dealt with by other organisations.

A

• Auction premises
• Animal movement

B

• Boarding establishment

C

• Caravan and camping site
• Club premises
• Cooling tower notifications
• Credit broker

D

• Dangerous exotic or wild animals
• Door supervisor
• Dog breeding
• Dropped kerbs/vehicle crossovers

E

• Environmental permitting

F

• Fishing permits
• Food premises (approval)
• Food premises (registration)
• Forecourt trading licence

H

• Hairdresser licence
• Highway projection
• Houses in Multiple Occupation (HMOs)
• House to house collection - Regulated by the Police
• Hypnotism - stage

M

• Market trading licences

N

• New roads and street works
• Non medicinal poisons
• Motor Salvage Operator
• Nursing registration

O

• Occupation of roads in connection to building work

P

• Petroleum filling stations
• Pet shops
• Performing animals registration
• Premises approval for marriage / civil partnership ceremonies
• Premises licence

R

• Riding establishment

S

• Sports ground safety certificate
• Safety certificate for sports ground
• Scaffold and hoarding
• Scrap metal dealer registration
• Sex establishment
• Special treatments (ie acupuncture, cosmetic, piercing, electrolysis, sunbeds, massage, manicure, tattooing)
• Skip registration
• Street collections - Regulated by the Police

T

• Taxi and minicab
• Temporary event

W

• Water sports
• Weighbridge operator

Z

• Zoos

By topic

• Animal licences
• Explosives and fireworks
• Food licences
• Gambling Act 2005
• Leisure
• Licensing Act 2003
• Licences for construction
• Permission to use the Town Square or Arcade site
• Street trading
• Street trading fees

If the licence or permit you require is not listed above, or you require any guidance or advice regarding the licences and permits issued by the Council please email wfdirect@walthamforest.gov.uk