A free starter guide to getting your premises licence right the first time: what the council is really looking for, and how to sidestep the mistakes that sink first-timers.
This guide exists because my own venue never opened. Everything was ready, the licence, the fit-out, the staff, the launch. Opening night was Good Friday 2020, and the country locked down that week. The doors never opened.
So I took the entire body of work I'd built to get a real UK late-night venue licensed and ready, and turned it into something you can use for yours. This free guide is where it starts, a straight, honest map of what's ahead, with no jargon and no consultant's day rate.
Not the full application, the map. What a licence is, what's actually judged, and the traps to avoid before you spend a penny.
When you need one, the licensable activities it covers, and the four licensing objectives your whole application is judged against.
The operating schedule, the premises plan, and the DPS with their personal licence, explained in plain English.
Applying, the pale-blue notice, the newspaper advert, the responsible authorities and the 28-day consultation, in the right order.
A woolly schedule, botched advertising, fire safety treated as a tick-box. Learn from other people's pain, not your own.
What it costs, how long it takes, and a one-page checklist you can actually work from.
The Licence Kit hands you the editable Operating Schedule master template, the Four Objectives Navigator with its Fire Safety module, all your registers and the staff policies your team work from. The £197 that saves the £5,000 solicitor.
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No. It's plain-English guidance built from a real UK licence application. It gets you genuinely oriented, then you check your own council's specific conditions before you apply.
Yes. It's written for any late-night licensed premises in England and Wales, nightclubs, bars, pubs, hotels, members' clubs, anywhere the Licensing Act 2003 applies.
That's the Licence Kit: the editable Operating Schedule, the objectives navigator, the policies and registers, ready to make your own. This free guide shows you the lay of the land first.