Overview
You require a licence if you operate any of the following businesses:
- Pet shop
- Animal boarding establishment (commercial boarding kennels, catteries, home dog boarding, dog day care)
- Dog breeding establishment
- Riding establishment
- Keeper and trainer of performing animals
Regulations
You can find out more about the Animal Welfare Licensing of Activities by clicking below.
Fees
The fees are variable depending on the duration of the licence. Click below to open our Fees page
Once you have a licence granted for your business, the Licensing Authority will write and send to you a renewal pack at least before the expiry date of your current licence.
On receipt of the application pack you are required to apply to renew your existing licence and return the application at a minimum of 10 weeks prior to your expiry.
Checks will be carried out by our Health & Safety Team prior to your licence being renewed and therefore you are required to give as much notice as possible by completing the renewal form on receipt to enable these checks to be booked in with you and carried out prior to your licence being renewed.
You may email the application to general.licensing@nottinghamcity.gov.uk
The initial application fee shall be taken at the time of processing the application. The grant fee shall be taken at the time of the grant of licence.
Further Information
- Animal activities licensing: statutory guidance for local authorities - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
- Selling Animals: Selling animals as pets licence (England) - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
- Exotic, Birds, protected species: Reptile and other licences - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
- Boarding for cats or dogs Boarding Licence (England) - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
- Wildlife licences: When you need to apply - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
Application forms
- Animal Licensing - Selling Animals as Pets - Application Form
- Animal Licensing - Hiring Out Horses - Application Form
- Animal Licensing - Keeping or Training Animals for Exhibition - Application Form
- Animal Licensing - Breeding and Sale of Dogs - Application Form
- Animal Licensing - Animal Boarding - Application Form
- Application for Variation to an Animal Activities Licence
Contact us
General.Licensing@nottinghamcity.gov.uk
Tel: 01159156571
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