Call to remove 'barriers to growth'

It will not surprise those working within the leisure industry that following an audit by the Local Government Association (LGA) it has apparently been established that to lawfully operate a new small family restaurant, as many as 8 separate licensing applications would be required prior to opening which would be issued by various different Local Authority departments with no single point of contact. Council Leaders have expressed a view that the current system will deter people from setting up and running businesses in their Communities, thereby prohibiting local growth and regeneration.

The LGA has called for a review of what they described as "an expensive and complicated maze" of applications which constitute licensing. If we can help you find your way through the maze, please do get in contact; we have the route map!