How Eastbourne's councils license dog boarders
Dog boarding, home boarding and day care are licensed activities under the Animal Welfare (Licensing of Activities Involving Animals) (England) Regulations 2018, and Eastbourne's area list is split between two licensing authorities: Lewes & Eastbourne Councils, a joint licensing service covering the Eastbourne centre, Hampden Park, Langney and Seaford areas, and Wealden District Council, covering Pevensey, Polegate and Hailsham. Neither council's own published register could be read directly for this town; both were read only through the third-party mirror site animal-licensing.uk, so no star rating is shown for any Eastbourne listing, even where the mirror itself displays one.
Lewes & Eastbourne Councils
This joint service's own register page and its published PDFs for both the Lewes and Eastbourne sides returned a Cloudflare-style block to an automated visit, the same block found for Basildon and Swansea's own council pages. The animal-licensing.uk mirror carries this authority under a single combined "Lewes & Eastbourne Councils" listing, and its per-operator pages gave a licence number and expiry for the businesses checked, but no address for any of them. Three of Eastbourne's businesses are licensed here: The Sussex Dog Retreat, Dingo's Rest and Salty Seadogs Seaford.
Wealden District Council
Wealden's own register page could not be read directly for this town either, so it too was read only through the animal-licensing.uk mirror, though the mirror's own page for this authority loaded cleanly each time it was checked. Four of Eastbourne's businesses are licensed here: We Love Pets Eastbourne & Polegate, Nightingale Boarding Kennels, Linden Lodge Kennels & Cattery and Active Animal Pet Care.
Why no star rating is shown
This directory only shows a council licence star rating when it has been read directly from a council's own register or its own published document; a figure seen only on a third-party mirror is not treated as confirmed for that purpose, whatever the mirror itself displays. That is the position for every business in this guide: a licence number and expiry are confirmed for seven of the eight, but no star rating is published for any of them.
The one unconfirmed licence
Eastbourne Doggy Daycare's own site states it is licensed by Wealden and rated four stars, but this business could not be matched to any entry on the Wealden register read through the mirror for this town. Its licence claim is shown as unconfirmed rather than as a licence fact, and no licence block appears on its listing at all.
What to check yourself
Because neither council's own register could be read directly, the most direct check for any business here is to ask for its licence number and, if you want to see the certificate itself or confirm a star rating, contact the relevant council's licensing team directly rather than relying on a mirror site or a business's own claim.