{"id":20,"date":"2013-10-14T14:08:46","date_gmt":"2013-10-14T13:08:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beta.devon.gov.uk\/registrationservice\/venues\/approved-venues\/apply-to-become-an-approved-venue\/"},"modified":"2025-03-13T12:36:29","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T12:36:29","slug":"become-an-approved-venue","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/registration-service\/venues\/become-an-approved-venue\/","title":{"rendered":"Contact us about becoming an approved venue"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>You can apply to Devon Registration Service to register a room or rooms in your property to be approved under the Marriage Act 1994 and the Civil Partnership Act 2004.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Before you start<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>A new licence will cost \u00a32000 and is valid for three years. A renewal of a licence currently costs \u00a31500.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Please ensure you have read and understood the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/registration-service\/venues\/become-an-approved-venue\/approved-venue-application-guidance\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"3191\">guidance notes<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"is-style-default\">Your proposed venue must be a permanent structure and it should not have any religious connections, all civil marriage and civil partnership ceremonies are secular rather than religious.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-dcc-primary-button\"><a onclick=\"dataLayer.push({&apos;buttonEvent&apos;: &apos;Information page&apos;});\" class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/registration-service\/venues\/become-an-approved-venue\/approved-venue-enquiry-contact-us-form\/\">Get in touch with us now<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What happens next<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>After you have submitted your application the property is inspected by a member of the service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Provided that there are no objections following a period of public consultation&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/registration-service\/venues\/become-an-approved-venue\/applications-for-civil-ceremonies\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"3909\">(listed on our website)<\/a>, a licence for three years will be issued.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Other ways to contact us<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Please call on <a href=\"tel:01392385615\">01392 385615<\/a> or email <a href=\"mailto:ceremonies-mailbox@devon.gov.uk\">ceremonies-mailbox@devon.gov.uk<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can apply to Devon Registration Service to register a room or rooms in your property to be approved under the Marriage Act 1994 and the Civil Partnership Act 2004. Before you start A new licence will cost \u00a32000 and is valid for three years. A renewal of a licence currently costs \u00a31500. Please ensure [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":16,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-sidebar.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-20","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-06 16:24:24","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/registration-service\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/registration-service\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/registration-service\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/registration-service\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/registration-service\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/registration-service\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8093,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/registration-service\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20\/revisions\/8093"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/registration-service\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/registration-service\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}