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Propel Legal Briefing - Licensing lessons from VE Day and why early planning matters by Tim Shield
First appearing for Propel Hospitality in their Legal Briefing on 15th May 2025 Licensing lessons from VE Day and why early planning matters by Tim Shield Last week saw the UK mark 80 years since VE Day, and the hospitality sector was right at t...
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AMEX backed local funding
Grants are available to Independent restaurant businesses of up to £11,000 from International Downtown Association Foundation in partnership with the Association of Town & City Management in the UK – which is an American Express-su...
Request for greater gambling licensing powers for Local Authorities
Around 40 local authorities, led by Cllr Muhammed Butt (Brent Council), are pushing for changes to the Gambling Act 2005, as they believe the current legislation fails to meet the current market challenges, with a reference being drawn to an...
New digital SCPLH Course
Since 2009, the team at John Gaunt and Partners have been an accredited provider of the Scottish Award for Personal Licence Holders (SCPLH) course. In the old pre-COVID days, we delivered the course face-to-face for hundreds of candidate...
Taxi Reform - Wales
As previously reported the Welsh Government have previously indicated a desire to reform Taxi & private hire regulation in Wales. This led to the publication of a white paper “Taxi and Private Hire Vehicle (Wales) Bill&rd...
Alcohol returning to the terraces?
Across several media websites this weekend it was reported that the Rt Hon Luke Charters, MP for Outer York has called for a reconsideration of the long-standing alcohol ban within sight of the playing surface during football games contested in th...
Annual Licensing fees - check before paying!
As part of the service we provide for many clients we administer the payment of the annual fees which are required to be paid each year for every premises licence. Each Licensing Authority deals with these annual fees in a slightly different way,...