Page content section :
Business and Economic Development
Useful weblinks :
- Advice to business and community
- Land and premises
- Planning and Building Control
- Facilities for business visitors
- Car parking
- Regulation
- Business licences and permits
- Environmental Health
- Doing business with the council
- Useful sections elsewhere on our website :
- Trading standards links : see our trading standards section
- Commercial waste : see our trade waste , waste links and waste and recycling sections
- Markets : see our markets section
Advice to business and community :
-
Business Link website (previously 'My business rates') (www.businesslink.gov.uk)
- BERR : Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (www.berr.gov.uk)
- Business grants - J4B :
- Business in the community (www.bitc.org.uk)
- Business insurance - a quick guide (www.insurance4business.org.uk)
- Business research and information (www.bestofbiz.com)
- Business start-up (16 to 30 year olds) (www.shell-livewire.org)
- Engeneration - Building sustainable business (SE UK only) (www.egeneration.co.uk)
- Envirowise : Environmental advice for businesses (http://envirowise.wrap.org.uk/)
- Grants etc for businesses (www.open4funding.info)
- Homes and Communities Agency (www.homesandcommunities.co.uk)
- National Statistics (www.statistics.gov.uk)
- Small business advice (www.businessadviceonline.org.uk)
- Small business community forums (www.smallbusinessforums.org)
- Start-up advice (www.startups.co.uk)
- UK Trade and Investment (www.ukti.gov.uk/home.html)
- West Sussex Economic Partnership website (www.wsep.org.uk - website temporarily unavailable)
- WSCC Environment and Development Department Tel : (01243) 777100
See also WSCC website contact page (www.westsussex.gov.uk/your_council/get_in_touch/contact_us/contact_us_by_phone.aspx)
Land and premises :
- Commercial property register (www.compropregister.com)
- Land registry and property prices (www1.landregistry.gov.uk/houseprices/)
- National land and property (www.egpropertylink.com)
Planning and Building Control :
- On our website :
- Planning and Building Control in the Adur District with details of how to submit applications
- Change of use / Use class orders - do I need planning permission?
- Operating
a business from home / working from home
- Other external websites :
- Planning Portal - including PARSOL (Planning and Regulatory Services Online National Project) (www.planningportal.gov.uk)
- Online planning offices (www.onlineplanningoffices.co.uk)
- Submit a plan - Building Control Applications on line (www.submitaplan.com)
Facilities for business visitors :
- On our website : Venues for meetings, conferences and exhibitions in
Adur :
- Lancing Manor Leisure Centre and Southwick Leisure Centre
- Lancing Parish Hall (www.lancingparishcouncil.gov.uk)
- Other smaller venues
- Other external websites for business accommodation, venues for meetings,
conferences and exhibitions :
- Visit Britain (www.visitbritain.com)
Car parking :
- On our website : Parking in
the Adur District
- Other national parking websites : (some of these companies
may not have coverage in the Adur District)
- National Car Parks (www.ncp.co.uk)
- Q Park (www.q-park.co.uk)
- Park at my house (www.parkatmyhouse.com/uk)
- Park Let (www.parklet.co.uk)
- Parking spaces for rent (www.yourparkingspace.co.uk)
- 24/7 Parking (www.247parking.com)
Regulation :
- Contractors' health and safety (www.chas.gov.uk)
- Environmental obligations for business (www.environment-agency.gov.uk/netregs)
- Food and Drink Federation (www.fdf.org.uk)
- Food Standards Agency (www.food.gov.uk)
- Health Protection Agency (www.hpa.org.uk/web/home)
- Health and Safety Executive (www.hse.gov.uk)
- Health and Safety Books (http://books.hse.gov.uk/hse/public/home.jsf)
- Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (www.iosh.co.uk)
- Reporting injuries, accidents dangerous occurrences (www.hse.gov.uk/riddor)
- Online regulation (PARSOL Project) (www.parsol.gov.uk - website temporarily unavailable, but you could try cutting and pasting the website address into your web browser)
Business licences and permits :
- On our website : Licensing in the Adur
District
- Other national licensing websites :
- Institute of Licensing (www.instituteoflicensing.org)
- Online licensing (www.licensingonline.co.uk) - website temporarily unavailable
Environmental Health :
- On our website : Environmental
Health in the Adur District
- Other national websites :
- Chartered Institute of Environmental Health (www.cieh.org)
- Drinking Water Inspectorate (DWI) (www.dwi.gov.uk)
- Food Standards Agency (www.food.gov.uk)
Doing business with the council :
- Valuation Office Agency (VOA) (www.voa.gov.uk)
