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Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act 2012

Sale and supply of alcohol generally - Licensing process: on-licences, off-licences, and club licences - Applications for licences

106: Considering effects of issue or renewal of licence on amenity and good order of locality

You could also call this:

"How selling alcohol might affect the local area and community"

When you apply for a licence to sell alcohol, the people deciding if you get it must think about how it will affect the area. They look at things like how noisy it might get and if it will cause any trouble or vandalism. They also consider how many other places in the area already have licences to sell alcohol. They think about if the activities around the premises are compatible with what you plan to do with the licence. If someone already has a licence and wants to renew it, the decision makers must think about how not renewing the licence will affect the area, looking at noise, trouble, and vandalism.

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Part 2Sale and supply of alcohol generally
Licensing process: on-licences, off-licences, and club licences: Applications for licences

106Considering effects of issue or renewal of licence on amenity and good order of locality

  1. In forming for the purposes of section 105(1)(h) an opinion on whether the amenity and good order of a locality would be likely to be reduced, by more than a minor extent, by the effects of the issue of a licence, the licensing authority or a licensing committee must have regard to—

  2. the following matters (as they relate to the locality):
    1. current, and possible future, noise levels:
      1. current, and possible future, levels of nuisance and vandalism:
        1. the number of premises for which licences of the kind concerned are already held; and
        2. the extent to which the following purposes are compatible:
          1. the purposes for which land near the premises concerned is used:
            1. the purposes for which those premises will be used if the licence is issued.

            2. In forming for the purposes of section 131(1)(b) an opinion on whether the amenity and good order of a locality would be likely to be increased, by more than a minor extent, by the effects of a refusal to renew a licence, the licensing authority or a licensing committee must have regard to the following matters (as they relate to the locality):

            3. current, and possible future, noise levels:
              1. current, and possible future, levels of nuisance and vandalism.