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Strategies and useful tools to help improve parades of shops.
Trading hours for retailers, restrictions on Sunday opening and public holiday opening in England, Wales and Scotland
Provides guidance on planning for retail and other town centre uses.
Small Business Minister Kevin Hollinrake urges everyone to support their local small businesses
Rules you must follow, who’s responsible, when to tell the Environment Agency and what to do if you get an enforcement notice.
VAT and other taxes on shopping and services, including tax-free shopping, energy-saving equipment and mobility aids.
Ways to help your area by supporting local businesses and services, and reclaiming underused space.
You must register with your local authority to run a food business.
How to store oil, design standards for tanks and containers, where to locate and how to protect them, and capacity of bunds and drip trays.
How the Valuation Office Agency calculates your rateable value for business rates.
How to get a handling or storage site approved, how to store animal by-products (ABPs) and derived products, and how to build the site.
Explains planning controls relating to the storage of hazardous substances in England and how to handle development proposals around hazardous establishments.
As a local authority, you can issue a fine or take legal action against businesses for nuisance parking.
How to manage a temporary storage facility, how to handle goods, what records to keep, how to increase the size of, or move goods between facilities.
How councils can deal with abandoned shopping and luggage trolleys, including who to consult, disposal and claiming costs.
Business waste management in England - your duty of care, waste collection, licences and waste transfer notes
Information for consumers.
Find a Trading Standards office to complain about illegal sales activity or to get business advice about trading legally
Check if you can get a reduction in your business rates bill with business rates relief and find out how to apply.
Find out when you must charge a minimum of 10 pence for single-use carrier bags, bags you're not required to charge for and the records you must keep and submit.
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