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If there are problems concerning a premises that has been granted a premises licence or club premises certificate, you can ask for a review of the licence.
A review of a current licence may be made by 'interested parties'; these include local residents or businesses who may be affected by the activities of a premises.
Your application for the review must relate to one of the four following licensing objectives:
You should consider whether your concerns could be effectively dealt with outside of the formal review process. This could involve, for example:
You or the body requesting the review must notify:
Download the review of a premises licence or club certificate form (Word, 105KB)
You'll need to send your review form to the licensing team and a copy to the list of responsible authorities.
Licensing team
Telephone: 020 8760 5466
Email: licensing@croydon.gov.uk
Address:
Croydon Council, Licensing Team
6th Floor, Zone A
Bernard Weatherill House
8 Mint Walk
Croydon
CR0 1EA
We will advertise requests for a review of a licence or certificate by displaying a notice at the premises that is subject to review, and at the licensing authority offices, for 28 consecutive days starting the day after the day on which the application was received.
Review public notice (PDF, 10.9KB)
If the request for a review is not rejected a hearing will be held to consider the application – unless all parties agree that this is unnecessary.
For example, we may offer to try to resolve matters by negotiated agreement outside a formal hearing. You will need to decide if this is appropriate for you, but you can also insist on having a hearing.
The licensing authority will write to you with the date and time of the hearing and will inform you of the procedure to be followed.
As the person or body requesting the review, you are required to give notice to us at least 5 working days before the start of the hearing, stating whether:
You must let the licensing authority know as soon as possible by written notice if you want to withdraw your application.
It is important that you consider what you are going to say at the hearing, as the licence or certificate holder and the committee will have seen your application for review, and may get the chance to question what you are saying.
Hearings will generally be held in public, unless the we decide it is in the public interest to hold all, or part of the hearing in private.
Hearings will normally take the form of a discussion and will be led by us, which will consist of three local authority elected councillors (this will be the licensing sub-committee drawn from a full licensing committee of 15 councillors).
The hearing will consider evidence produced in support before the hearing and can consider evidence produced by a party at the hearing, but only if all parties agree. Further evidence can also be produced if this was sought for clarification of an issue by the authority before the hearing.
Download the review guidance from the Department of culture, media and sport (PDF, 90KB)
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