Licensing Act 2003
Click on the links below for the Personal and Premise license
pages.
During 2005 the responsibility for issuing the following
authorisations under the Licensing Act 2003 was transferred to this
Council as the Licensing Authority for South Staffordshire:
Personal Licences
- for supplying alcohol in accordance with a
premises licence
Premises licences and club premises
certificates
- for supplying alcohol; and/or
- for providing regulated entertainment
including plays, films, indoor sporting events, music and dancing
or similar entertainments, in the presence of an audience;
and/or
- for supplying hot food or drink to the
public between 11.00 pm and 5.00 am
As required by the 2003 Act, the
Council has determined its licensing policy in accordance with
formal guidance issued by the Secretary of State. It was adopted
only after consideration of responses to consultation with those
authorities and representative bodies prescribed in the Act as well
as those received from other interested parties.
The legislation and formal
guidance, issued under it, makes it very clear that each
application has to be considered individually on its merits and
that a licensing authority is obliged to issue licences and
certificates in accordance with the operating schedule accompanying
an application, unless specific representations are made on that
application by responsible authorities or interested parties.
Responsible authorities include
the police and fire services as well as those responsible for the
protection of children, planning, environmental health and
safety.
Interested parties include
persons living or involved in a business in the vicinity, or,
bodies representing those persons.
A licensing policy cannot address
every eventuality and should not, we feel, attempt to incorporate
every detail of what the Council or responsible authorities expect
to see in an applicant's operating schedule, or, what may be
included in conditions attached to licences or certificates. It is
considered that the place for this is in the information
accompanying application forms.
Our Licensing policy, therefore,
sets out how the Council expects applications to be made and the
principles by which it will consider representations on
applications for licences and certificates, or, applications for
review of existing authorisations from responsible authorities or
interested parties.
Our policy can be accessed by
clicking on the relevant link below.
Advice on Noise from Licensed
Premises
Guidance on controlling noise
from Licensed Premises has been published. The advice has
been drawn up by the responsible authority for the
prevention of public nuisance, our Council's Environmental
Protection Service. Further information can be found by
following this
link.
The Act and guidance issued by the Secretary of State, together
with other information, can be accessed on the Department for
Culture, Media and Sport website, by clicking on the relevant link
below.
The Policy will be kept
under review and revised when considered appropriate. We are
therefore interested in any comments and observations on the
document, these can be sent to the contact below.
NOTE: All responses, where a name
and address have been provided, will be taken into consideration
and are likely to be made public. If you do not wish your identity
to be divulged, please make that clear in your response.
It would be useful if respondents
also included details of their interest in the Council's licensing
functions.
Links
Contact
Environmental Health & Licensing
South Staffordshire Council
Codsall
WV8 1PX
Telephone: (01902) 696804
Email: Licensing@sstaffs.gov.uk