Notes for Guidance
1. Describe the premises, for example the type of premises, its general situation
and layout and any other information which could be relevant to the licensing
objectives. Where your application includes off-supplies of alcohol and you intend
to provide a place for consumption of these off-supplies, you must include a
description of where the place will be and its proximity to the premises.
2. In terms of specific regulated entertainments please note that:
Plays: no licence is required for performances between 08:00 and 23.00
on any day, provided that the audience does not exceed 500.
Films: no licence is required for ‘not-for-profit’ film exhibition held in
community premises between 08.00 and 23.00 on any day provided that
the audience does not exceed 500 and the organiser (a) gets consent to
the screening from a person who is responsible for the premises; and (b)
ensures that each such screening abides by age classification ratings.
Indoor sporting events: no licence is required for performances between
08.00 and 23.00 on any day, provided that the audience does not exceed
1000.
Boxing or Wrestling Entertainment: no licence is required for a contest,
exhibition or display of Greco-Roman wrestling, or freestyle wrestling
between 08.00 and 23.00 on any day, provided that the audience does
not exceed 1000. Combined fighting sports – defined as a contest,
exhibition or display which combines boxing or wrestling with one or more
martial arts – are licensable as a boxing or wrestling entertainment rather
than an indoor sporting event.
Live music: no licence permission is required for:
o a performance of unamplified live music between 08.00 and 23.00
on any day, on any premises.
o a performance of amplified live music between 08.00 and 23.00
on any day on premises authorised to sell alcohol for
consumption on those premises, provided that the audience does
not exceed 500.
o a performance of amplified live music between 08.00 and 23.00
on any day, in a workplace that is not licensed to sell alcohol on
those premises, provided that the audience does not exceed 500.
o a performance of amplified live music between 08.00 and 23.00
on any day, in a church hall, village hall, community hall, or other
similar community premises, that is not licensed by a premises
licence to sell alcohol, provided that (a) the audience does not
exceed 500, and (b) the organiser gets consent for the
performance from a person who is responsible for the premises.
o a performance of amplified live music between 08.00 and 23.00
on any day, at the non-residential premises of (i) a local authority,
or (ii) a school, or (iii) a hospital, provided that (a) the audience
does not exceed 500, and (b) the organiser gets consent for the
performance on the relevant premises from: (i) the local authority
concerned, or (ii) the school or (iii) the health care provider for the
hospital.
Recorded Music: no licence permission is required for:
o any playing of recorded music between 08.00 and 23.00 on any
day on premises authorised to sell alcohol for consumption on
those premises, provided that the audience does not exceed 500.
o any playing of recorded music between 08.00 and 23.00 on any
day, in a church hall, village hall, community hall, or other similar
community premises, that is not licensed by a premises licence to
sell alcohol, provided that (a) the audience does not exceed 500,
and (b) the organiser gets consent for the performance from a
person who is responsible for the premises.