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For business owners who need to sell alcohol. We handle your personal and premises licence applications.
What’s included in this package?
This package is ideal for business owners who want to sell alcohol. We help with everything - course, exam, application forms, plans, and guidance on submitting your full application.
This is a perfect package for
New bar, café, restaurant or shop owners
Business owners needing both personal and premises licences
Anyone wanting one simple, done-for-you service
Key information
Here’s what you need to know about the whole process
- Time for licence grant
- 4-5 weeks
- Time to prepare documents
- 1-2 days
- Barnab fee
- £450 + VAT
- Premises submission fee
- £190
Premises, Personal or a TEN: which licence does your business need?
What you need depends on whether you are licensing a venue, a person, or a one-off event.
Premises Licence
A venue that sells alcohol, provides entertainment or serves late-night refreshment
- Time to get it
- 4-5 weeks
- Barnab fee
- £300 + VAT
- Government fee
- £190
- DBS check fee
- —
- Newspaper fee
- Variable (£200-£300)
- How long it lasts
- Ongoing while the venue operates
Not sure where to start? Read Personal and Premises Licence: What's the Difference? or What Is a Temporary Event Notice?
How the process works
Get the application form ready via chat
Instead of long confusing forms, we guide you through a simple, conversational chat.
Submit supporting files to complete the application
We tell you which files you need to submit and review them.
Generate your application pack
We generate your application forms and premises plan to make sure you are 100% ready for submission.
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Frequently Asked Questions
You’ll need to complete a 10-minute questionnaire to tell us about your premises and how you plan to use it. Make sure to read all the steps on the portal carefully, they guide the entire process.
Upload a hand-drawn or existing floor plan and optionally a video tour of the venue. Make sure to include key features like walls, exits, kitchen, WC, fire extinguishers, smoke alarms, and bar location. We can’t draft your official documents without this.
(1) Layout sketch or plan, (2) Passport, (3) Passport-style selfie, (4) DBS certificate (must be less than one month old when submitting to the council). Only request a DBS check after you take the exam.
Our team will prepare your application pack. We’ll email you once it’s ready. We can’t send anything until all required documents are uploaded to the portal.
You’ll get an email confirming your application is complete. That email includes the consultation end date. If you don’t get it within 24 hours, contact us.
We’ll send it to you. Print it on light blue A4 paper and display it outside your venue. Email two photos (close-up and wide) to the council as proof.
Yes, the law requires you to display a notice outside your venue and place an ad in a local newspaper. We will connect you with our advertising partner, who will send a quote directly to you.
We’ll introduce you to Statutory Advertising, our ad partner. They’ll send you a quote and handle everything directly. You just need to pay their fee.
Once submitted, the council takes 28 days to make a decision on your application. We’ll prepare your full application pack within 24 hours, provided that you answer all the questions in the chat and upload a layout plan.
When an objection is raised, the council will inform you and encourage you to resolve it by agreeing to additional conditions. This is common, and we can help you manage the process and respond quickly to avoid delays.
The council usually charges £190 for the premises licence and £37 for the personal licence. These fees are not included in our service fees
For the premises licence, your application may be objected to by members of the public or responsible authorities (e.g. the police or council) during the 28-day consultation period. It will then normally go to a licensing committee hearing. Hearings are rare (only around 1% of applications), and we offer a Hearing Package to help you prepare, respond to objections, and feel confident on the day.
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