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Coronavirus update
Our offices at Cecil Ward Building are closed. We are working remotely with a limited service. Please continue to contact us as outlined and we will resolve any issues as quickly as possible.
We can:
- answer your queries, but our processing of all application types is limited
- receive applications by email and online work with applicants to try and resolve any difficulties that may arise. But we may not be able to issue all licences, permits or certificates
- accept online payments
We're unable to collect all our post, postal applications or postal payments.
You can also contact us about:
- food safety
- health and safety
- environmental protection
- public health
- housing and
- dog control
by emailing envhealth@belfastcity.gov.uk. You can also email buildingcontrollicensing@belfastcity.gov.uk
Cinema licensing
- Cinema licensing
- Who needs a cinema licence?
- How to apply
- Renewing an existing licence
- Special permissions
- British Board of Film Classification
- Cinema licences for a moveable building or structure
- Documents needed
- How much does a cinema licence cost?
- Timescales
- Cinema licence conditions
- Offences
- Cinema licence exemptions
- Appeals
Entertainment licence
- Coronavirus update
- Entertainment licences
- Who needs an entertainment licence?
- How to apply
- What types of licence are available?
- Documents needed
- Timescales
- Entertainment licence advertisements
- Objections and appeals
- What happens when a licence is approved?
- How much do entertainment licences cost?
- Planning a large outdoor event
Pavement cafés
- Temporary process for pavement café licence applications
- How much does a pavement café licence cost?
- Guidance for pavement café licence applications
- How to apply
- Documents needed
- Application by a licensed premises
- Consulting other organisations
- Hours of operation
- Granting or refusing a licence application
- Objections and appeals
- Objecting to or supporting a licence application
Pollution prevention and control
- Introduction
- Which businesses need a permit?
- How much does a permit cost?
- Apply for a pollution prevention and control permit
- What information is needed for the application?
- How long does it take to process an application?
- Are permits renewed automatically?
- Does the council check if people are complying with the conditions of their permit?
- What happens if you need to change, surrender or transfer a permit?
- What are the statutory obligations for a business?
- Can businesses appeal against the conditions of a permit?