Christmas and New Year information
Find out all the information you need about our services over the Christmas and New Year period. This includes our opening times, waste collection days, and how to contact us out of hours.
Sex establishments
If you want to run a sex shop or adult cinema, you must get a licence from us.
A sex establishment can be a sex shop, sex cinema or sexual entertainment venue.
A sex shop is any premises used for business which consists to a significant degree of selling sex articles.
A sex cinema is any premises used to a significant degree for showing of films which are concerned primarily with, or relate to, or are intended to stimulate sexual activity.
A sexual entertainment venue is any premises at which relevant entertainment is provided before a live audience for financial gain.
Sex establishments must be licensed under the Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1982, as amended by the Policing and Crime Act 2009.
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