It may sound like a bad joke, but the slightly odd truth is that now isn’t the worst time to be thinking about your licence.
Obviously there’s next to no licensed trade happening, but if you can bring yourself to look a little way down the line – when customers are able to use pubs, clubs and restaurants again – a little pre-planning could go a long way to building your business back to where you’d like it to be.
Local authorities throughout England and Wales have been able to relax their restrictions on opening hours in order to help the licensing trade. Variations are also a lot easier to come by in the current climate as the word has come down from Westminster that councils should – quite rightly – do all they can to help the hospitality industry recover from the economic mess we’ve all been left in by the Covid-19 pandemic.
Venues may not be open yet, but the key to hitting the ground running is good preparation, and we can make sure that all our satisfied clients have to worry about.
At Complete Licensing we’ve been working throughout the last year to secure these license variations for our clients. Council licensing committees have been able to fast-track applications under temporary legislation so that they are dealt with in a matter of days, rather than dragging on for weeks.
Working to a speedy turnaround like this has plenty of challenges, but our expert team of legal advisors and licensing conditions specialists is able to act swiftly to bring watertight applications to committees as they’re required.
Venues may not be open yet, but the key to hitting the ground running is good preparation, and we can make sure that all our satisfied clients have to worry about is keeping their own customers just as satisfied.