Licensing
Licensing Hours over the Extra Bank Holiday to mark the Queens Funeral
Many licencees have the benefit on a nonstandard timings relating to Bank Holidays, which extends the hours of operation. These are used for our traditional Bank Holiday dates of Easter, early and late May, August and around Christmas and New Year...
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A-Level Results Day
Tomorrow marks the end of school for a lot of people, as its A-level results day. On the 25th it's also GCSE results day. Clearly, the majority of those celebrating will be 16 – 18 years old and operators need to be extra vigilant at this t...
National Hospitality Day – 16th September 2022
National Hospitality Day 2022 will take place on the 16th of September. Started last year, National Hospitality Day is a celebration of the country’s brilliant restaurants, pubs, hotels, bars, safes and the amazing people that work in them....
Pavement licensing regime extended for further 12 months
Earlier this month we reported on the proposed Business and Planning Act 2020 (Pavement Licences) (Coronavirus) (Amendment) Regulations 2022 that would extend the temporary/streamlined pavement licence system created by the Business and Planning A...
Spiking - Government response to Ninth report of Home Affairs Committee
On 26th April the Home Affairs Committee published its Ninth Report of session 2021 -22 which dealt with Drinks Spiking. The Government has now published its response to this report. The initial report made 12 recommendations and the full Govern...
Home Office States Automatic Off-Licence Provision to be extended
In a letter to the IoL Chairman, Dan Davies, on Thursday the Home Office has confirmed plans to extend the automatic provision for off-sales to licences in England & Wales. During Covid the Government made several interventions to support the...
Off sales relaxations to end?
In May 2022, we reported on the comments of Paul Regan of the Neighbourhood Crime Unit at the Home Office who wrote to Licensing Authorities stating in respect of pandemic related off sales relaxations: “given the absence of Covid restricti...