Leeds City Council fees and charges

We make a charge for some of the services we provide. The links on this page give more information about the services we charge for and how much they are.

Parking, roads and travel

• Car parking - on and off street parking charges
  
• Highways and Transportation licences and permits - fees for various highways related licences including skips, scaffolding, cranes, hoardings, material on highway, S50 licence
• MOT Testing - MOT and other vehicle inspection charges
• New Roads and Street Works Act (NRASWA) - permits to carry out roadworks
• Penalty Charge Notices (PCN’s) - parking fines and vehicle removal, storage and disposal fees
• Temporary Traffic Regulation Orders (TTRO) - request for a road closure or any other Temporary Traffic Regulation Order (TTRO) for highway works

Housing

• Houses in multiple occupation - fees for granting HMO licences
  

Leisure

• Abbey House - entrance charges to Abbey House Museum
Art Gallery Picture Library - charges for hiring art work from Leeds City Museum
• Golf - fees for council golf facilities
  
• Leeds Industrial Museum at Armley Mills- entrance fees to Leeds Industrial Museum
  
• Library charges - Library services fees and charges
• Lotherton Hall Estate- entrance fees to Lotherton Hall and garden
• Temple Newsam Estate - entrance fees to Temple Newsam Estate
• Tropical World Leeds - entrance fees to Tropical World Leeds
  

Licensing

• Alcohol and entertainment licencing - personal and premise licences
• Animal welfare licences - kennels, dog breeding, zoos etc
• Gambling Premises Licences - fees for gambling premise licences
• Lotteries registration - registration fee for lotteries
• Scrap Metal Licences - site and collectors licences
• Sex Establishment licences - licences to run a sex establishment (sex shop, sex cinema or sexual entertainment venue)
  
• Skin piercings - Tattooing, acupuncture, electrolysis, cosmetic piercing, ear-piercing and semi-permanent skin-colouring
  
• Street cafe Licences - licence to operate a street cafe
  
• Taxi and private hire - licences to operate taxis and private hire vehicles
  

Miscellaneous

• Adult Social Care - cost of care provided in your own home (non-residential care) and cost of residential care
  
• Allotments - fees for council allotments
• Attendance Strategy - penalty fines for failing to ensure your child attends school regularly
  
• Bereavement Services - charges for burials/cremations and other bereavement services
  
• Electoral and Open Register - sales of open register
• Funfairs - booking events in parks including fun fairs
  
• Pest control - pest control fees
  
• Registrars - Births, deaths, marriages, citizenship, baby naming
• Trade Waste disposal - waste disposal fees

Planning

• Building Regulation Fees - Building Control fees
• Local authority property searches - Search and other fees
• Planning fees guidance and toolkit
  

Room hire

• Carriageworks Theatre - rooms for hire
  
• Halls, schools and community centres - hire charges
  
• Kirkgate Market hospitality suite - hire of suite for events or functions
• Leeds Town Hall - rooms for hire for events and functions
• Lotherton Hall - room hire charges for weddings/functions
  
• Museum venue hire - hire of rooms for events or functions at museums
• Temple Newsam House hire - room hire charges for events and functions