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Some online services unavailable on Saturday 23 November and Monday 25 November

Due to essential maintenance some of our online services will be unavailable over the next few days.

  • On Saturday 23 November between 9am–5pm you will be unable to view your council tax, council tax support and housing benefits accounts or documents while we upgrade our systems.
  • On Monday 25 November between 6–11pm our online parking services will be unavailable. During this time, you won’t be able to review or pay for parking tickets or buy parking permits or visitor vouchers.

We are sorry for any inconvenience while we carry out these necessary works.

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Sex establishment policy

This policy sets out our proposed approach to regulating sex establishments and the procedure that we will adopt in relation to applications for sex establishment licences.

  1. Overview
  2. Limits on the number of premises
  3. Location of premises
  1. Impact
  2. Applicants
  3. Premises appearance and layout

Location of premises

We will treat each application on its own merits. However, applicants should be aware that we will take into consideration the location of the proposed premises and its proximity to:

  • residential accommodation
  • schools
  • premises used by children and vulnerable persons
  • youth, community and leisure centres
  • religious centres and public places of worship
  • access routes to and from premises listed above
  • existing licensed premises in the vicinity.
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