Planned System Maintenance - Limited Service

Sunderland City Council will be carrying out planned system maintenance from 12 noon on Friday 5th June until 7am on Tuesday 9th June. During this period, we will only be able to respond to urgent enquiries. If your enquiry is not urgent, please contact us before or after these times when full services will be available. We apologise for any inconvenience caused and thank you for your understanding.

Filming/Photographic Licence

Getting permission to film or take photographs

Sunderland are proud to be a film friendly city. Sunderland City Council have signed the Filming Friendly Charter, a North East Screen initiative to esablish the North East as the UK's filming friendly region. We welcome production companies to our area.

Property Services are responsible for issuing filming/photographic licences on council land.

If you wish to film on land owned by us, including public highways, please complete the form below and send it to [email protected]

Filming/Photographic Shoot Licence application form (word doc)

Filming Photographic Shoot Licence application form (pdf)

For further advice and guidance please contact the Business Investment Team using the telephone number below, please leave a message and a member of the team will get back to you.

0191 561 1194