premises licence Archives

Cumulative Impact

A licensing authority must aim to permit premises to be used for gambling – but is it entitled to miss?

There is no power to adjourn a summary review decision beyond 28 days from application. There should be.

A review of the Gambling Act 2005 is to be welcomed. But the scope of it is too narrow.

Government publishes minor amendment to the Guidance Notes accompanying the application form for a change of DPS.

Are Cumulative Impact Policies “more honour’d in the breach than in the observance”?

The Welsh government has announced a new Bill which will introduce a minimum price for the sale of alcohol in Wales.

An unused licence is “just a piece of paper”. No automatic right to grant of a new licence on surrender of the old.