Catering licence
Do you want to start or take over a catering or off-licence business? First check whether this fits within the environment via ‘Rules on the map’ on the Omgevingsloket website. Is your location suitable? If so, check the roadmap for applying for an alcohol or operating licence.
Are you unwilling or unable to apply online?
Contact the City of Leeuwarden.
Applying for or extending a declaration of tolerance?
You need a tolerance statement for a cannabis outlet. You must apply for this each year. Download and complete the form application/extension of declaration of tolerance for coffee shops (PDF, 53.27 KB). It is not possible to submit this declaration of tolerance digitally.
Is your corporate form changing?
For example, from a sole proprietorship to a general partnership (VOF) or a limited liability company (BV). Apply for a new licence.
You are closing your business
We would like you to let us know within 1 week of closure.
Charges
Operating permit
- Application €671.93.
- Reporting change of manager €128.82.
- Permit change €128.82.
Alcohol licence
- Application €662.75.
- Reporting change of manager €128.82.
- Permit change €128.82.
Terrace permit
- Application €548.09.
- Permit change €411.03.
Is your pavement cafe on municipal land?
The City of Leeuwarden requires operators of hotels, restaurants and pubs to pay a fee if they operate a pavement cafe on municipal land. This is called the encroachment licence fee. There are two zones.
The map showing the encroachment licence fee for a pavement cafe zone (PDF, 2.25 MB) shows where residents and operators of hotels, restaurants and pubs pay the zone 1 encroachment licence fee and the zone 2 encroachment licence fee.
Zone 1 €44.91 per m2 per year.
- around Wilhelminaplein (Zaailand), Hofplein, Tweebaksmarkt and Stationsplein;
- includes the main shopping and restaurant streets, such as Nieuwestad and Eewal;
- also includes the smaller alleyways and squares in the city centre;
- specifically covers the following streets and squares: Hofplein, Eewal (partially), Nieuwestad, Naauw, Kelders, Over De Kelders, De Brol, Groentemarkt, Peperstraat, Oude Lombardsteeg, Hoedenmakerssteeg, Oude Doelensteeg, Ipe Brouwerssteeg, Haniasteeg, Wolvesteeg, Molensteeg, Groot Schavernek, Ruiterskwartier, Zaailand, Wilhelminaplein, Druifstreek, Tweebaksmarkt, Stationsplein and Stationsweg.
Zone 2 €12.28 per m2 per year.
This covers all other streets in the city centre of Leeuwarden and the City of Leeuwarden.
Laws, regulations and/or policy documents
The following laws can be found on the website Overheid.nl (national):
- Alcohol Act
- Alcohol Decree
- Alcohol scheme
The following regulations can be found on the website Overheid.nl (local):
- General Municipal Ordinance Leeuwarden
- Catering and restaurant policy Leeuwarden
- Cannabis cafe policy Leeuwarden
- Policy rules on assessing behaviour in life
- Fees Ordinance Leeuwarden
- Leeuwarden sufferance tax ordinance
Questions or more information
Contact the City of Leeuwarden.
Are you unwilling or unable to apply online?
Contact the City of Leeuwarden.
Applying for or extending a declaration of tolerance?
You need a tolerance statement for a cannabis outlet. You must apply for this each year. Download and complete the form application/extension of declaration of tolerance for coffee shops (PDF, 53.27 KB). It is not possible to submit this declaration of tolerance digitally.
Is your corporate form changing?
For example, from a sole proprietorship to a general partnership (VOF) or a limited liability company (BV). Apply for a new licence.
You are closing your business
We would like you to let us know within 1 week of closure.
Charges
Operating permit
- Application €671.93.
- Reporting change of manager €128.82.
- Permit change €128.82.
Alcohol licence
- Application €662.75.
- Reporting change of manager €128.82.
- Permit change €128.82.
Terrace permit
- Application €548.09.
- Permit change €411.03.
Is your pavement cafe on municipal land?
The City of Leeuwarden requires operators of hotels, restaurants and pubs to pay a fee if they operate a pavement cafe on municipal land. This is called the encroachment licence fee. There are two zones.
The map showing the encroachment licence fee for a pavement cafe zone (PDF, 2.25 MB) shows where residents and operators of hotels, restaurants and pubs pay the zone 1 encroachment licence fee and the zone 2 encroachment licence fee.
Zone 1 €44.91 per m2 per year.
- around Wilhelminaplein (Zaailand), Hofplein, Tweebaksmarkt and Stationsplein;
- includes the main shopping and restaurant streets, such as Nieuwestad and Eewal;
- also includes the smaller alleyways and squares in the city centre;
- specifically covers the following streets and squares: Hofplein, Eewal (partially), Nieuwestad, Naauw, Kelders, Over De Kelders, De Brol, Groentemarkt, Peperstraat, Oude Lombardsteeg, Hoedenmakerssteeg, Oude Doelensteeg, Ipe Brouwerssteeg, Haniasteeg, Wolvesteeg, Molensteeg, Groot Schavernek, Ruiterskwartier, Zaailand, Wilhelminaplein, Druifstreek, Tweebaksmarkt, Stationsplein and Stationsweg.
Zone 2 €12.28 per m2 per year.
This covers all other streets in the city centre of Leeuwarden and the City of Leeuwarden.
Laws, regulations and/or policy documents
The following laws can be found on the website Overheid.nl (national):
- Alcohol Act
- Alcohol Decree
- Alcohol scheme
The following regulations can be found on the website Overheid.nl (local):
- General Municipal Ordinance Leeuwarden
- Catering and restaurant policy Leeuwarden
- Cannabis cafe policy Leeuwarden
- Policy rules on assessing behaviour in life
- Fees Ordinance Leeuwarden
- Leeuwarden sufferance tax ordinance
Questions or more information
Contact the City of Leeuwarden.