Licensing
The Council is responsible for issuing a variety of licences, some of which you may need before you can start trading.
These include:
- businesses which involves selling alcohol or opening late in the evening
- other business purposes including taxis
- charitable collections and raffles
- professions which need to be licensed for safety reasons, such as beauty treatments
- businesses involving animals
If you’re unsure whether you need a licence for your business, you can use the licence finder on the gov.uk website or get in touch with us on licensing@newark-sherwooddc.gov.uk or 01636 650000.
The licences we issue:
- premises licence
- club premises certificate
- temporary events notice
- personal licence
- pavement licensing
- animal licensing
- gambling licences
- taxi licensing
- raffles, totes and lotteries
- charitable collections
- street trading
- beauty treatments
- skin piercing and tattoos
- caravan site licence
- Houses in Multiple Occupation (HMOs)
- registering your food business
- sale of fireworks licence
- scrap metal
National fraud initiative
The national fraud initiative matches electronic data within and between public and private sector bodies to prevent and detect fraud.
Newark town centre PSPO
Newark town centre is subject to a public space protection order (PDF File, 738kb), making it an offence to consume alcohol on public land within a designated area.
Newark Town Centre - alcohol related controls map (PDF File, 1,827kb)