FOI/EIR 26/27-036-Tattoo studios

Number of registered tattoo studios (both through ARP and EH) for past ten years

Received 10 April 2026

Q1) Please advise, based on your business rates database, how many tattoo-specific premises or tattoo studios were known to you for each financial year for the past 10 years.

Q2a) Please can you advise, based on your Environmental Health records, how many premises were registered with you in order to provide tattooing services or were tattoo studios, during each financial year for the past 10 years under the Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1982 (LGMPA 1982).
Please note that tattooing is considered alongside acupuncture, electrolysis, semi-permanent skin colouring, and piercing to be referred to more broadly as a ‘special treatment’, which is regulated by the above Act.

Q2b) Please can you advise, based on your Environmental Health records regarding the above premises, how many individual practitioners were registered with you in order to provide tattooing services or were working within tattoo studios, during each financial year for the past 10 years under the Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1982 (LGMPA 1982)?

Responded 7 May 2026

Q1. Having checked our database, we currently have one property specifically rated by the Valuation Office Agency as a "Tattoo Parlour And Premises". In addition we have another single property where the ratepayers name includes the word "Tattoo".

This does not mean there are not more premises used for this purpose, however these could be rated as "retail shops" etc and we don't know the nature of the ratepayers usage

Q2. 

Tattoo artists

Tattoo studios

This does not include semi-permanent make-up artists and studios. Whilst it is a similar technology, separate registration would be required. This has not been requested.