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Sapcote licensing services, specialising in the Licensing act of 2003, covering the midlands and the uk as well. temporary event notices, dps, personal licence applications

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Sapcote Licensing

Your One Stop to all your Licensing Requirements.

With over 10 years experience to the licensed trade, we are able to advise and assist you with all aspects of your licensing requirements. Including: Applications, Hearings and Appeals.

Whether you require a Premises Licence, Personal Licence, Club Premises Certificate or a Temporary Event Notice, you can rest assured that you will be in expert hands with Sapcote Licensing

We can advise you on different courses you may need to take and the certification that you may require.

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How Sapcote Licensing can help you

Sapcote licensing offer a service to help with all aspects of licensing covered by The Licensing Act 2003. We offer our services to individuals, small or large independent businesses and corporate organisations.

Although we are a Central Midlands based company, we will undertake work for businesses or individuals in other parts of the country.

The following are the types of applications that we can assist with, and other services that we can provide:

• Application for Premises Licence
• Application for Personal Licence
• Variation of Premises Licence
• Transfer of Premises Licence
• Change of Designated Premises Supervisor (DPS)
• Club Premises Certificates
• Temporary Event Notices
• Representation at meetings with police or local licensing authorities
• Representation at application or review hearings

1.)Application for Premises Licence

If you have just bought a business premises and wish to carry out a licensable activity on those premises, we can assist by preparing your application in full and submit it to the local licensing authority and other responsible authorities on your behalf, including advertising your application in the local newspaper or news sheet.

It maybe that you already operate a business and you want to expand it in some way, such as starting to sell alcohol in a convenience store or provide hot food or drink to the public after 11pm for example, in which case you will need a premises licence.

Our services include liaising with the local licensing authority to ensure that your application meets with the licensing authority’s own policy and negotiating on any applicable conditions.

So let us take away the burden of filling out forms and negotiating with the authorities, while you get on with running your business

Application for Personal Licence

Whether you are already working in the leisure industry or considering it as a career in the future, you may wish to hold a personal licence. Someone who holds are personal licence has greater employment prospects within the leisure industry than someone who does not hold one.

A personal licence authorises an individual to sell alcohol by retail or authorise the sale of alcohol by retail.

Any premises that sells alcohol is required to have a Designated Premises Supervisor (DPS) specified on a premises licence and that person must hold a personal licence.

Sapcote Licensing will guide you through the requirements of a personal licence and will also prepare and submit and application on your behalf.

Variation of Premises Licence

You may already hold a premises licence or club premises certificate and wish to amend the licence in some way. This could include any of the following:

o Vary the hours during which a licensable activity is permitted;
o Adding or removing a particular licensable activity;
o Amending, adding or removing a particular condition within a licence;
o Altering the layout of the premises.

A variation application is made in a similar way to an application for a new premises licence and we can assist by preparing your application in full and submit it to the local licensing authority and other responsible authorities on your behalf, including advertising your application in the local newspaper or news sheet.

Why get tied up with this application process when we can do the work for you.

Transfer of Premises Licence

If you are buying or taking over a business that has a premises licence, then the premises licence will have to be transferred into your name.

An application to transfer a premises licence will only change the identity of the owner of the licence and does not alter in any way the licence itself, such as the licensable activities or conditions. A separate variation application would have to be made in those circumstances.

The consent of the existing premises licence holder is also required in order for the transfer application to be processed.

Sapcote licensing  will assist by preparing your application in full, including the change of (DPS) if required, and submit it to the local licensing authority and other responsible authorities on your behalf.

Change of Designated Premises Supervisor (DPS)

Alcohol can only be sold on a premises when there is a (DPS) specified on the premises licence. If a member of staff who is also your (DPS) leaves their employment with you, then you will have to replace that person and name someone else on your premises licence as the (DPS) and who must hold a personal licence.

An application will therefore have to be made to the local licensing authority to change the (DPS), and also the police will have to be notified about the application.

It can therefore become quite urgent for an application to be made due to the sudden departure of a (DPS), particularly because alcohol cannot be sold on your premises until a (DPS) is in place.

Sapcote licensing will prepare your application in full and submit it to the local licensing authority and notify the local police on your behalf.

Club Premises Certificates

The same process applies for an application for a club premises certificate as it does for a premises licence, but with the addition of having to satisfy conditions to be a “qualifying club”.

In the same way as a premises licence, we will prepare your application in full and submit it to the local licensing authority and other responsible authorities on your behalf.

Temporary Event Notice (TEN)

The Licensing Act 2003 recognises that a temporary event notice will be given in many instances by people who do not have a commercial background, for instance by people acting on behalf of charities and community and voluntary groups etc, who wish to hold a public event involving a licensable activity in order to raise funds. Therefore, a Temporary Event Notice has to be given to do this.

Alternatively, you may already hold a premises licence just to sell alcohol for instance, but might want to provide entertainment on a one-off occasion or a couple of times a year, or you may wish to extend your hours of operation on a one-off occasion, and so a (TEN) will let you have the authority to do that.

Sapcote Licensing will prepare your application and submit it to the relevant authorities on your behalf.

Representation at meetings with Police or Local Licensing Authorities

Occasionally, the local licensing authority or the police may arrange a meeting with a premises licence holder following a complaint or concern about a premises.

In some cases, licensing authorities will initially arrange a conciliation meeting to address and clarify issues of concern following complaints by a responsible authority or an interested party.

Also, in some cases, local police may themselves have concerns about a particular premises and arrange for a meeting to take place between them and the premises licence holder to discuss the issues of concern and possibly agree some measures to improve the way that the premises are operated.

In both of these instances, Sapcote Licensing can attend such meetings with the premises licence holder and/or the (DPS) to assist in any negotiations and ensure that unrealistic measures are not placed upon a premises licence.

Representation at Application Hearings

Once an application has been submitted to the licensing authority and advertised in the specified way, this may attract representations (formerly objections) from responsible authorities or interested parties.

If this happens, your application will go before a sub-committee of local councillors for consideration. The applicant and whoever has made the representations will be expected to attend the hearing to discuss the application.

It is important to remember that at an application hearing, a local licensing authority has the power to add conditions as necessary to an application, exclude a licensable activity or reject an application.

we can attend such hearings with you to represent you in respect of your application. We will also ensure, where possible, that any conditions that maybe applied to a premises licence are not unnecessary or disproportionate in relation to the promotion of the four licensing objectives, and also that any decision that is taken by the authority is not unreasonable.

Representation at Review Hearings

If you already hold a premises licence, an application can be submitted to the local licensing authority by a responsible authority or an interested party asking for a premises licence to be reviewed because of problems that may have arisen with those premises.

If such an application is made, this will need to go before a sub-committee of local councilors for consideration.

It is important to remember that at a review hearing, a local licensing authority has the power to add or modify a condition, exclude a licensable activity, remove a (DPS), suspend or revoke an existing licence.

we can attend such hearings to represent you in respect of your premises licence. We will also ensure, where possible, that any decision that may be taken by the local licensing authority is not unreasonable and any conditions that maybe applied to a premises licence are not unnecessary or disproportionate in relation to the promotion of the four licensing objectives.