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15 Sep 2022

Licensing Hours over the Extra Bank Holiday to mark the Queens Funeral

Many licencees have the benefit on a nonstandard timings relating to Bank Holidays, which extends the hours of operation. These are used for our traditional Bank Holiday dates of Easter, early and late May, August and around Christmas and New Year...

15 Sep 2022

Nottingham Revokes Late Night Levy

We have previously reported that Nottingham City Council was reviewing whether to retain its Late Night Levy which was introduced in 2014. Earlier this year the Licensing Committee for Nottingham City Council recommended to the full Council that t...

14 Sep 2022

Propel Legal Briefing - Trust in Truss to fix hospitality’s cost-of-living and energy concerns by Chris Grunert

First appearing in Propel Hospitality Legal Briefing on Wednesday 14th September 2022 Trust in Truss to fix hospitality’s cost-of-living and energy concerns by Chris Grunert Within the space of a few days, the nation said farewell to Her M...

12 Sep 2022

National Mourning Guidance

Following the sad passing of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II the Government has published national guidance for the Country in this period of mourning. The guidance does not dictate specific behaviour but in respect of businesses (includ...

02 Sep 2022

Food and drink Sector Council - New Chair

This week Tim Smith was appointed as Chair to the Food and drink sector council, replacing former co-Chairs Ian Wright and Terry Jones. The Food and Drink Council is a body which sits with government and has appointed to it as a co-chair the Food...

01 Sep 2022

SIA Investigators out in force across the country

It is being reported that SIA investigations officers are currently carrying out inspections across the UK. As Licensed premises operators will no doubt be aware to work as a “door supervisor” an individual needs to be registered and ...