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Premises Licence and Variation applications

If you want to apply for a premises licence, we can submit the application on your behalf acting as your licensing agent. We’ll use our expertise gained from working in local authorities to help you get the licence you need. After speaking with you to see how we can help, we’ll prepare the application with along with a set of proposed conditions for the licence. Helping you post the correct site notice on the premises and even submitting the required newspaper advert on your behalf, we’ll get the ball rolling on your application. Once the application process has started, we’ll advise about and comments that the responsible authorities may have and provide some recommendations if needed. We’ll handle any negotiations on your behalf allowing you concentrate on the other business goals that you have. Click here to find out more.

Vary DPS Applications

We can submit Vary DPS (Variation of Designated Premises Supervisor) applications on your behalf eliminating any need for you carryout this type of administration. Leave us a message to see how we can help.

Transfer Applications

Transferring a premises licence is another process where we can take away your need to carry out the administration leaving you more time to concentrate on more important things. Transferring a premises licence can be tricky if can’t get your hands on the required consent, we can use our experience to help you get around these hurdles if need be.

Special Treatment licences

Special Treatment Licenses are licences are needed in places like salons, beauty parlours and health spas. They allow operators to carry out various beauty treatments on their premises, treatments like manicures, pedicures, massages and laser/IPL treatment are just a few of the treatments that require this type of licence. There are different regulations and application requirements depending on where your premises is located. If you’re thinking about applying for one of these licences and need some help and guidance, give us a call.

Compliance Services – Compliance inspections and reports

An important part of having a premises licence is making sure that you and your staff are always operating in a way that reflects what’s on the licence and promoting the licensing objectives. We can check your premises for compliance with the licence by carrying out an inspection and providing you with a report of our findings and any recommendations that we have about the way you operate to make the premises compliant with the licence, this can be useful to make sure that you’re putting the licence at risk of a Licence review application and avoiding complaints from your neighbours. It can also help you manage the licensing aspect of business if have more then one licensed venue.

We can carry out one off inspections and reports or provide them every 3 months, 6 months or even monthly depending on what you need for your premises. If you have had compliance issue in the past or simply want to prevent them from occurring in the future, we can use our experience of local authority enforcement and expertise to help you do this. Prevention is better that cure.

Urgent Review application and compliance assistance

Sometimes things can go wrong at a venue that leads to one of the responsible authorities or even your neighbours applying to review your premises licence. This is a serious issue as it can mean that you could end up losing the licence all together depending on the outcome of the review hearing. At the Review Hearing, the licensing sub-committee will listen to all the parties that have made comments and decide what to do with the premises licence. This could mean removing the DPS, suspending the licence for up to 3 months, changing the hours and conditions of the licence or in the worst case, removing the licence entirely. During the hearing you’ll be expected to explain your points based on the licensing objectives about why your licence should not be changed or removed, you’ll be expected to demonstrate what you’ve done to stop problems happening at the venue and what measures that you’ve put in place. This is another area where doing some work around compliance with your premises licence can be useful, being able to prove that you have had professional assessments and your staff appropriately trained can go a long to convince the authorities and members of a licensing sub-committee that you can be trusted to continue to operate without further problems occurring. With a great deal of experience in dealing with review applications we can help you with these kinds of issues and work with you to prevent them from happening again. Having spent a lot of time in review hearings and submitting review applications ourselves for a local authority, we have significant experience with these issues. If you’re undergoing a review application, or you need some advice about these types of problems, give us a call and we’ll let you know how we can help.

Staff compliance training.

You can often prevent problems occurring at you premises by making sure your staff know their responsibilities based on the premises licence. This leads to overall more compliant operation and the premises operating in a way that promotes the licensing objectives. In our experience, lots of licensed venues run into problems that would have been avoidable with some staff training. We’ll tailor any staff compliance training around your business needs and premises licence by drawing up a specific program of training based around your business. Using this training, you can lay the foundation for peace of mind going forward. Training can be delivered in person or online depending on your needs. Contact us if you feel this service could benefit you.

Floor Plans You’ll need to have floor plans of your premises that show the layout with the location of entrances and exits, fire alarms etc. Floor plans are usually provided by an architect and submitted along with your application.