Scotland - Dundee: Overprovision for the whole City...except the waterfront

Further to our previous article in April ('Dundee overprovision for the Whole City') which notified that the Dundee City Licensing Board had commenced a consultation exercise seeking views as to the areas within which an overprovision policy should apply, the Licensing Board has agreed to a formal statement that there is an overprovision of licensed premises - except in the Waterfront area.

The new policy, which will be adopted by October 2014, means that in future any operator applying to the Board for a licence will need to overcome the rebuttable presumption that the application should be refused on the basis of overprovision.

The decision to introduce the policy resulted in a large number of applications before the Board in August being continued to its meeting on 9 October 2014, when the policy will have been published.

The Board will review the position in one year's time.