Health Premises

The main objective for Latrobe City Council is to ensure all Health Act Premises including businesses where prescribed accommodation, hairdressing, beauty therapy, electrolysis, earpiercing, skin penetration or tattooing procedures are carried out either on the premises or from a mobile operation are registered and inspected by Latrobe City Council's Environmetal Health Officers on a yearly basis. Please note that approval will not be granted for mobile health businesses of high risk nature.

• Setting up a new health premises
• Buying an existing health premises
• Useful links

Setting up a new health premises

Several Latrobe City Council Departments may be involved in the setting up of a new business whether it be a new building, existing building or mobile operation. It is important to be aware that departments operate indepently within the Council. You will need to determine which approvals are required for your particular business and complete application forms and submit plans seperately to each of the relevant departments, whether it be Planning, Buliding or Environmetal Health.

Please Note:- It is important that you do not commence any structural work or fit-out until you have obtained all the relevant approvals. It can be very costly to have to make changes after construction if the work you have undertaken does not meet the standards guidelines which approvals are assessed against.

Everybody who operates a health premises has a legal obligation to be registered under the Health Act with their relevant local Council.

Plan Lodgement

In addition to receiving the necessary Building and Planning Permits, you will need to submit two copies of scale plans to the Health Services Team for approval prior to commencement of works. Plans must be submitted and attached to the Plan Approval Application for Food and Health Act Premises with the approprate fee of $80 for a Health Premises. When lodging plans it is important to include as much detail as possible in relation to the services/treatments that will be offered by your business.

Buying an existing health premises

If you are buying or intend to buy an existing health premises, it is necessary to organise a transfer assessment of the premises under the Health Act prior to negotiating the purchase. Such a request should include the following:

• Application for Request for Conveyancer Transfer Assessment
• Notification of any proposed refurbishment with a Plan Approval Application
• Application for Request for Consent to Release Information

Useful links

• Blue Book - Guidelines for the control of infectious disease