Licensing Department
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The Licensing Department is part of Harlow Council's
Regulatory Services, and has responsibility for:
- Licensing Act 2003 - personal and premises
licensing and temporary event notices
- Hackney Carriage and Private Hire
Licensing
- Charity Licensing - street collections, house
to house collections, lottery licences
- Gambling Act 2005 - premises
licences, permits, temporary use notices and occasional
use notices
- Highways Act 1980 - licensing of tables and
chairs (cafe licences) and portable advertising boards on the
highway
- Designation Orders for the Non Consumption of
Alcohol
Many activities in the town, particularly some types of
entertainment, require licences. Harlow Council is
responsible for issuing these licences and ensuring that the law is
not broken. 
In Harlow, the Licensing team organises the successful BOBB
pubwatch scheme that enables known troublemakers to be banned from
town centre pubs and clubs. Working with Trading Standards
the team also carries out test purchasing of alcohol and other age
limited goods to ensure that shopkeepers are complying with the
law. There is also regular enforcement work in bars and pubs to
ensure that there are no banned drugs on the customers or
on premises. Since 2006 the Licensing team has also be
piloting a taxi marshall scheme at town centre cab ranks to help
minimise trouble and help people to leave the town centre on Friday
and Saturday nights.
Activities in Harlow that require a licence include:
- Street trading
- Running gambling activities and lotteries
- Charity collections
- Placing of tables and chairs or portable advertising boards on
the Highway
Traders/retailers that may need a licence include:
- Betting shops/bingo halls/family entertainment
centres
- Sex shops
- Motor salvage businesses
- Bars/clubs/restaurants (for sale of alcohol and entertainment
purposes)
We also provide licences for individuals including:
- Hackney carriage ("black cabs") and private hire vehicles
(and drivers)
Quick links - follow the links below for more information
Licensing
Contacts for further information
Licensing Authority:
Terry Perriss
Licensing Officer (01279) 446605
Adam Sherwood
Licensing Officer (01279) 446562
Debbie Wright
Licensing Administrator (01279) 446005
Elizabeth Haydon
Licensing Administrator (01279) 446009
Licensing Department
Harlow Council
Civic Centre
The Water Gardens
Harlow
Essex CM20 1WG.