Regulator Profile
Local Authority
Local Authority (Environmental Health / Licensing / Planning)
Enforcement Regulator6
Areas of regulation
64
Laws enforced
UK-wide
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Alcohol Licensing
Business Rates
Food Safety
Noise
Planning
Waste
What Local Authority does
Local councils enforce food safety (via Environmental Health Officers), issue alcohol licences, grant planning permission, and regulate certain business activities at local level. Responsibilities vary by council.
Additional information
Contact your specific local council. Key functions: food hygiene inspections, alcohol premises licences, noise abatement, planning permission, business rates.
Legal framework
Legislation that Local Authority enforces.
Primary legislation
- Children and Young Persons Act 1933 Act 1933
- Caravan Sites and Control of Development Act 1960 Act 1960
- Children and Young Persons Act 1963 Act 1963
- Riding Establishments Acts 1964 and 1970 Act 1964
- Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 Act 1974
- Highways Act 1980 Act 1980
- LGMPA 1982 Act 1982
- Weights and Measures Act 1985 Act 1985
- Environmental Protection Act 1990 Act 1990
- Food Safety Act 1990 Act 1990
- PLBCAA 1990 Act 1990
- Town and Country Planning Act 1990, Part VIII Act 1990
- UKPGA 1990/10 Act 1990
- UKPGA 1991/64 Act 1991
- Sunday Trading Act 1994 Act 1994
- Noise Act 1996 Act 1996
- Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1997 Act 1997
- Licensing Act 2003 Act 2003
- Housing Act 2004 (HHSRS framework) Act 2004
- Gambling Act 2005 Act 2005
- Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011 Act 2011
- Live Music Act 2012 Act 2012
- UKPGA 2014/12 Act 2014
- Consumer Rights Act 2015 Act 2015
- Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation) Act 2018 Act 2018
- Coast Protection Act 1949 Act
- Public Health Act 1936 Act
Secondary legislation
- Town and Country Planning (Use Classes) Order 1987 UK Statutory Instrument 1987
- UKSI 1992/1690 UK Statutory Instrument 1992
- Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) Order 1995 UK Statutory Instrument 1995
- Shops (Sunday Trading &c.) (Northern Ireland) Order 1997 UK Statutory Instrument 1997
- Health and Safety (Enforcing Authority) Regulations 1998 UK Statutory Instrument 1998
- The Children (Protection at Work) Regulations 1998 UK Statutory Instrument 1998
- UKSI 2002/2682 UK Statutory Instrument 2002
- UKSI 2002/3217 UK Statutory Instrument 2002
- Building (Procedure) (Scotland) Regulations 2004 Scottish Statutory Instrument 2004
- Building (Scotland) Regulations 2004 Scottish Statutory Instrument 2004
- ... and 27 more statutory instruments