We will be progressing the inspection programme shortly, and an officer will be contacting you to enable the completion of the licensing process for your premises.
On 1st October 2018, The Animal Welfare (licensing of Activities Involving animals) (England) Regulations 2018 came into effect.
All activities will be assessed to see if they need a licence. If you are unsure if you need a licence please contact the Environmental Health team on 01246 231111 or email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. If you are trading illegally and then apply for a licence then this may impact on the consideration of your application.
Licences for the following activities will be needed when carried out as a business, except for breeding:
- Selling Animals as Pets
- Providing or Arranging for the Provision of Boarding of Cats or Dogs Which includes:-
- Cat boarding
- Kennel Boarding for Dogs
- Home Boarding for Dogs
- Day Care Boarding for Dogs
- Hiring Out Horses For Riding or Instruction in Riding
- Breeding Dogs
- Keeping or Training Animals For Exhibition
If you have a licence
If you have an existing valid licence, you don’t need to renew it until it expires. The application process does take 10 weeks so if you do not want a break in your licence term then you must apply at least 10 weeks prior to your current licence expiring.
If you have a dog boarding licence and also look after dogs in the day, you will need to obtain a licence for this activity as well if the operation is different to the home boarding operation.
Eligibility
The licence holder must be a named person who is not disqualified from holding a licence in accordance with the requirements of regulation 11 of the regulations. A person cannot apply for a licence if they have previously had a licence revoked under the Regulations or is disqualified from keeping an animal under any other legislation.
Application Forms and Fees
The following documents are application forms which are activity specific, and appropriate fees. Please note home boarding licences and day care licences are to be submitted on the animal boarding application. Licences for home boarding and day care cannot be run at the same premises.
- Animal Fees and Charges (file type, .pdf | file size, 294.14kb)
- Breeding and Sale of Dogs 2018 (file type, .pdf | file size, 653.55kb)
- Dangerous Wild Animal (file type, .pdf | file size, 356.93kb)
- Licensing of activities and fees involving animals (file type, .pdf | file size, 197.89kb)
- Performing Animals 2018 (file type, .pdf | file size, 452.2kb)
- Pet Vending 2018 (file type, .pdf | file size, 465.15kb)
Guidance Documents
Guidance documents specific to each activity can be found below.
- Animal Welfare Act 2006 (file type, .pdf | file size, 282.56kb)
- Animal Welfare Licensing of Activities Involving Animals England Regulations (file type, .pdf | file size, 207.69kb)
- Change log (file type, .pdf | file size, 223.06kb)
- Defra Guidance Notes for Dog Boarding Kennels (file type, .pdf | file size, 424.37kb)
- Defra Guidance Notes for Exhibiting Animals (file type, .pdf | file size, 616.25kb)
- Defra Guidance Notes for Selling Animals as Pets (file type, .pdf | file size, 869.18kb)
- Dog Breeding Guidance (file type, .pdf | file size, 648.09kb)
- Hiring out horses (file type, .pdf | file size, 496.61kb)
- Procedural Guidance for Local Authorities (file type, .pdf | file size, 685.12kb)
- Providing boarding for cats guidance (file type, .pdf | file size, 1.22mb)
- Providing day care for dogs guidance (file type, .pdf | file size, 461.71kb)
- Providing home boarding for dogs guidance (file type, .pdf | file size, 564.87kb)
Public registers for animal licences
- Animal Boarding list 2020 NEDDC with Rating (file type, .docx | file size, 25.64kb)
- Animal Breeding list 2020 May (file type, .docx | file size, 21.46kb)
- Notification of appeal (file type, .docx | file size, 1.3mb)
- Performing Animals 2019 NEDDC (file type, .docx | file size, 21.16kb)
- Pet Shops 2019 NEDDC (file type, .docx | file size, 21.4kb)
- Request for rescore and revisit (file type, .docx | file size, 1.3mb)
- Riding Establishments list 2019 NEDDC (file type, .docx | file size, 22.94kb)