Licensing

13 Dec 2016

Best Bar None Sheffield 2017

John Gaunt & Partners are again proud sponsors of the Sheffield BBN awards – with the presentation awards ceremony held at Sheffield City Hall on 9th February 2017. Partner Tim Shield will be among those sifting through the finalists th...

12 Dec 2016

Liverpool City Council - Late Night Levy - update

Earlier this month we confirmed that Licensing Authority had adopted the Late Night Levy. Full details of the Levy have now been released. The Levy will commence from 1 April 2017. It will apply to all premises within Licensing Authority geogra...

09 Dec 2016

HoL Select Committee on the Licensing Act 2003: the Health objective and Scotland

At the suggestion of the Clerk to the Committee, we have filed some additional written evidence to the Committee on our experiences of the health objective, and how it works, in Scotland. This will shortly be uploaded to the HoL Committee web pag...

09 Dec 2016

PPL new tariff - small hotels and guesthouses

UK music licensing company, PPL, has announced a revised tariff for Small Residential Hotels and Guesthouses. The changes will come into effect on 1st January 2017 and are the product of a consultation that was launched earlier in the year with l...

05 Dec 2016

'Recognising the terrorist threat'

A ‘festive’ reminder of the need to be alert to the possibility of a terrorist attack in the lead up to the busy Christmas period. Government guidance on planning for a possibility of a terrorist incident and what action to take in th...

24 Nov 2016

DCMS Entertainment Licensing Statistics in the year to 31 March 2016

DCMS have just released the entertainment licensing statistics for England and Wales in the year to 31 March 2016. They can be found here 'Entertainment Licensing 2016: Statistical Release - November 2016' and also include statistics by region. T...