Licensing your venue for civil marriages and civil partnerships
5. Planning Permission
If you would like to apply for your premises to be used for the solemnisation of marriages and civil partnerships, you will need to get in contact with your local District or Borough Council as well as the South Downs National Park Authority, depending on your location, to see if planning permission is also required.
If you are unsure whether you require planning permission or would like to obtain pre-application advice, please see the relevant District or Borough Council page listed below for more information:
Rother District Council
Pre-application advice – Rother District Council
Hastings Borough Council
Pre-application Planning advice (hastings.gov.uk)
Lewes and Eastbourne Councils
Apply for pre-application planning advice - Lewes and Eastbourne Councils (lewes-eastbourne.gov.uk)
Wealden District Council
Pre-Application Advice - Wealden District Council - Wealden District Council
South Downs National Park
Planning Applications - South Downs National Park Authority
