Alcohol, entertainment and late night refreshment licences

Find out more about the Licensing Act 2003 and the licensing requirements for activities like alcohol sales, regulated entertainment, and late-night refreshments.

Find guidance about specific licensable activities, exemptions, and guidelines for events such as live music, recorded music, dance performances, films, and sports.

A Temporary Event Notice allows you to provide licensable activities at premises on a one-off basis. They can either be used at unlicensed premises or at licensed premises to extend the existing licensed hours.

Find out how to apply for a personal licence, which allows a person to authorise sales of alcohol from premises that hold a premises licence, and how much it costs.

Find information on how to apply for a new premises licence, including application forms, fees, and any supporting material that you must provide.

If you want to make any changes to what is authorised by your premises licence, like adding the sale of alcohol, you need to make an application to vary the licence.

A minor variation allows licence holders to make small changes to their premises licence, like minor changes to the structure or layout of a premises.

If you take over a business and wish to carry out licensable activities authorised by the existing premises licence, then you must apply to transfer the licence.

Find out how to apply for a Club Premises Certificates, which is for clubs that typically have membership systems, club rules and a constitution.

Apply to change the designated premises supervisor (DPS) on your premises licence.

Apply for an Interim Authority Notice to reinstate the premises licence as if the person giving the notice is the holder of the licence.

If you have a legal interest in a property you can notify us so that we can tell you about any changes made to the licensing register that may affect the property.

The holder of a premises licence must notify us of a change in the address or contact details of the licence holder or of the designated premises supervisor (DPS).

Find the fees for the grant or variation of a premises licence or club premises certificate.