Licensing
House of Lords Select Committee on the Licensing Act 2003 - report published
At midnight last night, the House of Lords Committee report was published. It can be found here. Running to some 180 pages in all, the contents will take some digesting but here is the summary of the Report’s conclusions and recommend...
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House of Lords Select Committee on the Licensing Act 2003 - report imminently due!
The report of House of Lords Select Committee on the Licensing Act 2003 is due to be published next Tuesday – 4 April. To remind - this House of Lords Select Committee has been conducting post-legislative scrutiny of the Licensing Act, afte...
Gloucester City Council postpone Late Night Levy decision
A meeting scheduled this week regarding Late night Levy Proposals, has been postponed until the 24th July 2017. The Council indicated that it had received a number of consultation responses requesting a Business Improvement District (BID) t...
Licensing - new application forms are coming
The Licensing Act 2003 (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2017 (411/2017) have been laid before Parliament today. These Regulations will serve to update and amend various licensing application forms – some 20 in all - to take account of...
Hackney - Late Night Levy - update
Further to our previous news on this, Hackney Council has now launched its consultation the adoption of a Late Night Levy (LNL). The consultation runs until 7 May 2017 and seeks views on proposals to introduce a LNL on premises serving alcohol be...
Alcohol licensing: a guide for public health teams issued
Public Health England has produced a guide to health teams to ‘make sure that licensing policy and applications consider the health and wellbeing of local communities’. The guidance is intended to inform on how directors of publi...
Scotland – Licensing Board dates 2017
Operators familiar with the Scottish licensing system will be aware of the importance of when a Board sits to consider a particular application. This is particularly significant for dates from May onwards, given the hiatus to the fixing of such d...