Licences, Consents and Permits

The Maidstone Borough Council licensing team, in partnership with Tunbridge Wells Borough Council and Sevenoaks District Council, deals with a wide variety of licences, including:

• Licenses under the Licensing Act 2003. These include:
  • Licences controlling the sale of alcohol, such as Premises and Personal licences;
  • Licences for events with entertainment or where alcohol is served, including large private parties (a Temporary Event Notice); and
  • Private clubs, such as sporting clubs or working men’s clubs
• Licences for activities under the Gambling Act 2005, such as:
  • Casinos or bingo halls;
  • Adult gaming arcades; or
  • Temporary gambling permits, for short-duration events at suitable premises (A Temporary Use Notice)
• Licences for Hackney Carriages and Private Hire Vehicles
• Consents for Street Trading
• Animal licences for the keeping of animal businesses and establishments

Please find a comprehensive list of what we licence below, with links to more information and application facilities on the side-bar to the left of this page. Some of these procedures are handled by Environmental Enforcement or Housing, as well as licensing. There are also links to sources of information on some procedures not processed by Maidstone Borough Council.

You can apply for many of our own procedures online. Of the licences and permits where this is not yet possible, many application forms are available to download and print off for completion. Alternatively, we will post you application forms on request: please contact us using the details to the right of this page.

We authorise:

Service provider registers

Several registers of service providers operating in the Maidstone borough are held by the council. These include:

• licensed businesses in the areas listed above;
• restaurants and other businesses handling foods;
• caravan and camping sites;
• Houses in Multiple Occupation; and
• various specialist activities which may have Environmental Health restrictions upon them.

These are listed in a public register of service providers, which contains links to online registers and contact details for the officers responsible for registers held in hard copy.

Sevenoaks District Council, Tunbridge Wells Borough Council and Maidstone Borough Council have formed the Licensing Partnership to process and issue licensing applications.

The Licensing Partnership has a central administration based at Sevenoaks, with Licensing Officers located at each local licensing authority, together with admin support to deal with people visiting the face-to-face customer service areas at each authority.

Please see the pages for the procedure you require for further details as to whether it is dealt with at Maidstone or by the Partnership

For procedures handled by the partnership, please contact:

Licensing Partnership
P.O. Box 182
Sevenoaks
Kent TN13 1GP

email: licensing@sevenoaks.gov.uk

telephone: 01732 227004

To make payment for procedures handled by the partnership, please make cheques payable to: “Sevenoaks District Council”. Alternatively card payments may be made over the telephone using the number above.

Licensing Partnership Manager  -    Anthony Garnett                                                            

Other Local Authorities may licence:

Licensing and data protection

The council takes its obligations under data protection legislation very seriously and will not disclose information to any unauthorised person.  Information may be shared with other services within the council or disclosed to other local or public authorities or government agencies that have a legitimate reason to request the disclosure.

The council is under a duty to protect the public service that it administers and to this end, it may use the information that you have provided for the prevention and detection of crime and/or fraud.

It may also share this information with other bodies responsible for auditing or administrating public funds for these purposes.

If you wish to know more about the uses to which the information may be put to use by the council then please contact the senior Licensing Officer.