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Premises licence, club certificate and community premises

Premises licences or club premises certificates are required for premises where one of the following takes place:

sell alcohol
have regulated entertainment
sell food and drink late night on a regular basis

If your event is temporary, you may not need to apply for a premises licence but instead be able to apply for a Temporary Event notice.

Registered clubs can apply for a club premises certificates instead of a premises licence. To qualify as a club, you must:

be a registered club
have a minimum of 25 members
have an interval of at least two days between a member signing up and their admission.
be "established and conducted in good faith".

How to apply

Both the premises licence and club premises certificate have a similar application process and incur an application fee and an annual fee.

To apply, you need to complete the relevant application form and return it to our Licensing Team at
Melton Borough Council, Station Approach, Burton Street, Melton Mowbray, LE13 1GH.

Apply for a premises licence

Apply for a club premises certificate

Alongside your application form you will also need to send us the following relevant documents:

A plan of the premises (scale 1:100).
A copy of your blue notice (templates are available to download below).
A completed designated premises supervisor (DPS) consent form (if you are selling alcohol)
(you do not need this for club premises certificates).
A copy of the club rules (if you are applying for a Club Premises Certificate).

You will also need to:

Arrange for your Blue Notice to appear in the local newspaper within the first 10 working days after the application has been submitted. You can check with the local newspaper about their publication cut off dates before submitting your application to us. Where possible, we may be able to briefly check your application and blue notice prior to submission.
Send a copy of the application to the responsible authorities. You can find more about this on the "contact details for the responsible authorities" section below.
Make a payment by using the purple button below, please check the relevant fee before making you payment.

Please note that there is new legislation called the Terrorism (Protection of premises) Bill also known as Martyn's Law requiring certain venues to plan and mitigate risk of terrorism for public safety.

Check the fees

Pay the application fee

Change of name or address on an existing licence

If the premises licence holder or Designated Premises Supervisor has changed their name or address, you will need to let us know and complete a form. This incurs a fee of £10.50. Please contact licensing@melton.gov.uk for the relevant form.

Community groups applying for a premises licence

If you are a community group, you can apply to remove the mandatory condition to require a Designated Premises Supervisor (DPS) on a premises licence. You can do this by completing the form, if there is an existing premises licence, the statutory fee to pay is £23. There is no fee if you submit the form as part of a new premises licence or variation of a premises licence.

You will need to provide details of:

how the premises is managed
committed structure, for example, copy of the minutes of the latest committee meeting
how you will ensure the supervision of or responsibility for alcohol sales in different situations. For example, when the premises is let for private parties.

To support your application we recommend you provide:

any written constitution
any other relevant documents that show the structure, contact details and relationship of its key officers
any relevant hire agreements for the use and hire of the premises by third parties

You must send a copy of your application to the police (including copies of any accompanying documents).

There is a 28-day consultation period, only the police can object. If we receive no objections within this period, we will grant or amend your licence on the following day. If we need to hold a hearing this will take place within 20 working days (after the last date for objections). We will give you at least 10 working days' notice of the date of the hearing. If we refuse the application, we will tell you of our decision in writing, together with the reasons for refusal and your rights of appeal.

Contact details for the responsible authorities

When applying for a new premises licence or a full variation, you must provide full copies of your application form to the following authorities

Responsible Authority	Number of copies	Postal address	Email address
The Licensing Authority	Two	The Licensing Officer Melton Borough Council Parkside, Station Approach Burton Street Melton Mowbray Leicestershire, LE13 1GH	licensing@melton.gov.uk
Fire Service	One	The Chief Fire Officer Risk Management Leicestershire Fire and Rescue Service 12 Geoff Monk Way Birstall Leicestershire, LE4 3BU	info@leics-fire.gov.uk
Police, and protection of children from harm	One	The Chief Officer of Police The Licensing Section Mansfield House 74 Belgrave Gate Leicester, LE1 3GG	licensing@leics.police.uk
Trading Standards	One	Trading Standards Business Services County Hall Glenfield Leicestershire, LE3 8RN	trading-standards@leics.gov.uk
Planning	One	Planning Department Melton Borough Council Parkside, Station Approach Burton Street Melton Mowbray Leicestershire, LE13 1GH	developmentcontrol@melton.gov.uk
Public Health	One	Licensing Applications Public Health Directorate G58/1 Leicestershire County Council County Hall, Glenfield Leicestershire, LE3 8RA	PHlicensing@leics.gov.uk
Health and Safety, and Environmental Health	One	Environmental Health Melton Borough Council Parkside, Station Approach Burton Street Melton Mowbray Leicestershire, LE13 1GH	environmentalhealth@melton.gov.uk
Home Office	One	Home Office (Immigration Enforcement) IE Licensing Compliance Team (IELCT) 2 Ruskin Square (Floor 6) Dingwall Road Croydon CR0 2WF	IE.licensing.applications@homeoffice.gov.uk

What happens next:

The application will not be considered to be served until each of the necessary forms have been fully completed and received by the Licensing Team.

The first clear day, following the submission of all of the above, is classed as day 1 of the 28-day consultation period (for example, if documents are received on a Monday, day 1 would be a Tuesday).

Once the 28-day consultation period has passed, we will either grant the licence if no representations have been made or convene a hearing of the Licensing Committee, to which you would be invited, to decide the application.