Legal services
At Poppleston Allen, we have many years experience helping businesses obtain premises licence, manage their premises licence but also help businesses with licence reviews against their premises licence.
If you need help with a licence review, you’re in the right place. Get in touch today.
What is a Premise Licence Review?
A premises licence review is a serious, often business-critical event. Any person is allowed to bring a licence review against your premises licence – a local resident, the police, licensing authority, environmental health officer, even the Home Office Immigration Department or Trading Standards.
Whoever brings the licence review you can be sure of one thing – something has gone wrong. Licence reviews almost always end up at a hearing before the licensing authority and other residents or responsible authorities can join in the review as well.
As the options to the licensing authority include reducing your trading hours, removing your DPS or suspending or even revoking your licence, it is vital that you take early specialist legal advice.
How We Can Help
We are experts in helping save licences and reducing the damaging effect of licence reviews, having represented clients in hundreds of reviews all over the country since the Licensing Act came into effect in 2005. There are two additional more specific forms of review: the summary review and a summary off-sales review.
What is a summary review?
A summary review is a fast track licence review brought by the police where they consider that the premises are associated with serious crime or serious disorder, or both.
Depending on the seriousness of the incidents giving rise to the summary review, you could find your premises closed by the licensing sub-committee within 48 hours of the application for summary review by the police – and it could remain closed for many weeks. Expert advice again is therefore essential.
Reviews of premises licences
A licence review is not just about protecting the licence it is about rebuilding damaged relationships, perhaps with your neighbours or with the authorities. We have many years’ experience of doing both.
Reviews of premises licences
A licence review is not just about protecting the licence
it is about rebuilding damaged relationships, perhaps with your neighbours or with the authorities. We have many years’ experience of doing both.
Get in touch!
For more information on premises licences, other licences needed in the licensed trade / in alcohol licensing our solicitors and legal experts would be more than happy to help. Or you can call the offices on 0115 953 8500 (Nottingham) and 0203 859 7760 (London).
