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Neighbourhoods and Public Protection Fees and Charges


The fees and charges for Neighbourhoods and Public Protection are under individual service areas for your ease of use.

The charges for our discretionary services are on a cost recovery basis only. This ensures we can continue to deliver the functions that support local communities.


Licensing fees

Fees for licences or permits including:

  • Gambling premises (including betting shops or bookmakers, bingo, casino, prize gaming, club gaming or machine permit)
  • licenced premises
  • acupuncture, tattooing, ear piercing and electrolysis (skin piercing)
  • hypnotism
  • scrap metal dealer
  • park home sites
  • sex establishment
  • street trading
  • flyer licence (Newquay)
  • animal licence (including animal boarding, pet shops, dog breeding, riding establishments, exhibiting or performing animals, dangerous wild animals and zoos)
  • private hire and hackney carriage

Food safety charges

Fees and charges for:

  • Food health certificates (export)
  • Food condemnation and other sampling
  • Port health fees and charges

Port health fees and charges

Fees and charges for:

  • Gipsy Moth certificates
  • ship water test requests
  • hire of conference room
  • Food health certificates (export)
  • Food condemnation and other sampling
  • Ship sanitation inspection

Community protection fees and charges

Fees and fixed penalty charges for:

  • stray dogs
  • littering
  • waste transfer or carrier licence penalty
  • domestic, industrial and commercial waste receptacle offences
  • noise from licensed premises
  • noise from dwellings
  • alarm noise
  • graffiti
  • fly tipping
  • unauthorised distribution of literature
  • nuisance or abandoned vehicles

Environmental protection fees and charges

Fees and charges for:

  • private water supplies
  • public health funerals
  • exhumations
  • return of ashes
  • green burial application
  • contaminated land

Trading standards and fair trading fees and charges

Trading standards fees and charges for:

  • feed business
  • weights
  • measures
  • protected food names