Business Advice - Helpful Contacts

On this page you will find a list of helpful business contacts. Click on the type of organisation you require for full details. For Sefton MBC Trading Standards' contacts, please go to our About Us page.

• Business Link
• Local business advice
• Enforcement services
• Office of Fair Trading
• Government departments
• Regulators
• Neighbouring Trading Standards Departments
• Other organisations

Business Link

Web Site: www.businesslink.gov.uk

Local business advice

Sefton Chamber of Commerce and Industry
150 Lord Street, Southport. PR9 0NP
01704 531710
www.seftonchamber.com

Enforcement services

For Local Building Control, Environmental Health, Licensing, Planning & Trading Standards:
0845 140 0845
www.sefton.gov.uk

Government departments

Consumer Direct
O8454 040506
www.consumerdirect.gov.uk

Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
08459 335577
www.defra.gov.uk

Health & Safety Executive
0845 345 0055
www.hse.gov.uk

Department for Business, Enterprise & Regulatory Reform (BERR) formally DTI
020 7215 5000
www.berr.gov.uk

Regulators

LACORS
020 7665 3888
www.lacors.gov.uk

Office for the Supervision of Solicitors
019626 820082

Office of Fair Trading
020 7211 8000
www.oft.gov.uk

Office of Telecommunications
0845 714 5000
www.oftel.gov.uk

Office of Water Services
0121 625 1300
www.ofwat.gsi.gov.uk

Police Complaints Authority
020 7273 6450
www.pca.gov.uk
 

Neighbouring Trading Standards Departments

Knowsley Trading Standards,
Environmental Health & Consumer Protection Division, Municipal Buildings, Cherryfield Drive, Kirkby, Knowsley L32 1TX
tel(t): 0151 443 4711
fax(f): 0151 289 7488

Liverpool Trading Standards,
Trading Standards, Regeneration, Municipal Buildings, Dale Street L2 2DH
tel(t): 0151 233 3002
fax(f): 0151 225 6039

St. Helens Trading Standards,
Trading Standards Section, Wesley House, Corporation Street, St Helens WA10 1HE
tel(t): 08454 040506
fax(f): 01744 456590

Wirral Trading Standards,
Trading Standards Division, Department of Regeneration, Town Hall, Brighton Street, Wallasey, Wirral CH44 8ED
tel(t): 0151 691 8535
fax(f): 0151 691 8098

Lancashire Trading Standards,
Trading Standards Department, 58-60 Guildhall Street, Preston PR1 3NU
tel(t): 08454 040506
fax(f): 01772 533648

Other organisations

Advertising Standards Authority Ltd
020 7580 5555
www.asa.org.uk

Local Government Ombudsman
0845 602 1983
www.lgo.org.uk
 

Sefton Metropolitan Borough Council, Environmental Protection Department, 1st Floor, Magdalen House, Stanley Precinct, Trinity Road, Bootle, Merseyside. L20 3QZ. Telephone: (0151) 934 2089   Fax: (0151) 934 2106   Electronic Mail: consumer.advice@environmental.sefton.gov.uk