We’ve been posting stories of licensing closures for some time now so always have an eye open for them. This batch of closures in the Nottingham area look like a change of pace:
Notts Police Force Pubs To Close
It seems that relatively minor breaches of licence conditions are now bringing closure notices.
‘Relatively Minor’ includes failing to keep CCTV footage for 31 days, failing to display details of a public entertainment licence and, somewhat pettily, failing to have a qualified first aider on site.
It’s often surprising just how many premises are in breach of their premises licence conditions. Many people don’t even know that there are conditions attached to their licence, where those conditions might be found, or even that failing to display their premises licence is a breach of their premises licence conditions!
We are seeing this more and more often now and the message is clear; get your house in order because the licensing authorities are upping the ante.
Understand what your obligations are and make sure that you comply to all the conditions you agreed to when your premises licence was granted. There is clearly a new mindset at work among compliance authorities.