We are the Petroleum Licensing Authority for the Borough of Poole responsible for ensuring safety at sites within Poole where petrol is delivered, stored and dispensed (but not for Bournemouth areas or Dorset County).
Your licensed premise will be subject to a routine inspection to ensure that the conditions of your licence are being complied with. When we inspect or visit a petrol filling station the aim is to ensure the observance, maintenance and, where necessary, the improvement of safety standards.
The frequency of these inspections will be determined by a risk rating of the premises.
We will normally renew or transfer your licence within 5 working days and post it to the correspondence address you have provided.
We are unable to provide licences electronically as these are a legal document and need to be signed by an authorised officer.
The keeping of petrol must be in accordance with conditions attached to a licence issued under the Petroleum (Regulation) Acts 1928 & 1936.
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You will need a petrol licence if you
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store in excess of 10 litres of petrol at home ,or
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have a business and dispense petrol mechanically or electrically into motor vehicles.
We will need to inspect your proposed petrol storage before we can issue a new licence.
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As your petrol licence is a legal document, you are required to sign any application or Licence transfer form.
We cannot therefore offer online petrol licence renewals and transfers, though you can download a copy of the application for renewal or transfer form from this website and post it back completed and signed with the appropriate fee.
To renew your petrol licence, please download the appropriate form, and once completed, return it to:
The Petroleum Officer, Environmental & Consumer Protection Services, Units 1&2, New Fields Business Park, Stinsford Road, Poole, Dorset. BH17 0NF.
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We are responsible for ensuring safety at sites where petrol is delivered, stored and dispensed.
Storage of petroleum spirit and mixtures requires an Electrical certificate for new installations and Annual inspection of existing installations.
We are unable to accept this certificate by email because it must have a signature. Please print it, sign it, and return it to:-
The Petroleum Licensing Officer, Environmental and Consumer Protection Services, Unit 1, Newfields Business Park, 2 Stinsford Road, Poole, BH17 0NF
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The licence fees are set by central government. The current fee’s are as follows:
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Quantities
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Price
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up to 2,500 litres
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£42
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up to 50,000 litres
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£58
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over 50,000 litres
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£120
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If you wish to apply for a two year licence please multiply these sums by 2 and for a three year licence please multiply these sums by 3.
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We are not able to renew licence for periods longer than three years. Licence fees are subject to review in April each year, applying for a 3 year licence will protect you from two annual price increases.
All cheques should be made payable to the Borough of Poole.
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This information is only a brief guide, for further information please contact us.
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