Licensing
Covid 19 - City of Edinburgh Council - external area use extension
Maybe as a result of the recent warm weather but more likely due to the continued high rates of transmission of Covid 19 in the central Scottish belt The City of Edinburgh Council is to allow its restaurants to keep their temporary outdoor dining ...
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Covid 19 - Scotland - Moray Council Occasional licences
At the September Licensing Board Meeting Moray council decided to review the dispensation they had granted in June 2020 to allow open ended occasional licences to enable premise to increase their capacity. The Board has decided that this will cea...
Covid 19 - Winter is Coming! Prime Ministers Plan A & B
In an announcement yesterday from No.10, Prime Minister Boris Johnson, accompanied by Government Medical Advisors Professor Chris Whitty and Sir Patrick Vallance, informed the nation of the Government’s winter plan for tackling Covid-19 case...
Covid 19 - England vaccine passport plans ditched
In a much-awaited announcement for the hospitality sector, the Health Secretary, Sajid Javid, confirms that the Government will not be proceeding with plans to introduce vaccine passports for access into nightclubs and large events in England. Whi...
Marquees could be here to stay
Ministers are consulting on plans to allow some of the extra outdoor seating and street markets, introduced during the pandemic, to continue. However, the plans as currently identified do not appear to include al fresco style dining on roads. The ...
Covid 19 | Vaccine Passports
On 12th July, when the Prime Minister confirmed that Step Four would be taken on 19th July, he also announced plans in respect of nightclubs and other large events could make use of the NHS’s Covid Pass to verify customers status. Although w...
Government Publish Results for Mass Events Tests
Data extracted from the NHS Test and Trace app has shown that mass events can be conducted safely, but caution is still required to be taken around certain aspects of participation in mass events. The data was collected from 37 trial events held o...