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Includes business rates, trading standards, health and safety and employing people. Doing business with us.

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Trading standards

Report a trading standards issue. Inspections and enforcement. Avoiding rogue traders. Illegal skin lighteners and knife sales.

Food safety and hygiene

Food safety and hygiene rules. When a food business must be registered or approved. Food hygiene inspections and ratings. Sharing information about allergens.

Business health and safety

Report an accident at work. Health and safety inspections and advice, including fire, gas and electricity safety, asbestos, lifting equipment, rough sleepers and registering cooling towers.

Business rates

View and pay your business rates. Discount and rate relief. Debt advice and what happens if you do not pay.

Business support

Support and advice for all sizes of businesses. Recruitment advice. Find local premises and venues.

Employing people

Hire locally. Employing apprentices. Paying employees and the London Living Wage. Pay gap reporting.

Procurement

Council tenders and how we do business. Get on an approved contractor’s list.

Licences

How to get licences for alcohol, businesses, parks, roads and gambling.

Markets and street trading

How to find, run and trade at a street market in Southwark.

Alcohol and business premises licences

Licences for alcohol, film classification, fireworks, scrap metal, auctions, wedding venues, gambling and animal feed. Sunday trading and temporary event notices.