Premises Licence

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...

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...

23 Nov 2016

Festive Temporary Event Notices 2016

With the festive season fast approaching it may be worth considering applying for a Temporary Event Notice (TENs) to trade a few longer hours. If you do decide to apply for TENs - a reminder that for a full notice TEN, 10 working days’ noti...

21 Nov 2016

Fabric Nightclub 'to re-open'

We have previously commented upon the ‘high profile’ closure of Fabric Nightclub. We are seeing reports that terms have been agreed between the operators of Fabric, the council and the police for the premises to reopen subject to a raf...

11 Nov 2016

Liverpool chose to adopt Late Night Levy

Liverpool City Council have revisited the adoption of the Late Night Levy, which had been rejected in March of this year. On this occasion the vote was in favour of adoption for premises operating beyond 12 midnight. The Levy is to commence in Apr...