Club premises certificate

Applications for premises licences or club premises certificates must be accompanied by a plan to which the application relates, the scale being 1:100. However plans of outside areas only will be accepted to scale 1:500

The plan shall show:

• the boundary of the building, if relevant, and any external and internal walls of the building and, if different, the perimeter of the premises;
• location points of access to and egress from the premises;
• if different from condition above, the location of escape routes from the premises;
• where premises are used for more than one licensable activity, the area within the premises used for each activity (including where any bars/alcohol distributing points and where alcohol will be stored or on display for sale)
• fixed structures (including furniture) or similar objects temporarily in a fixed location (but not furniture) which may impact on the ability of individuals on the premises to use exits or escape routes without impediment;
• where premises include a stage or raised area, the location and height of each stage or area relative to the floor;
• where premises include any steps, stairs, elevators or lifts, the location of each one;
• where premises include any room or rooms containing public conveniences, the location of each one;
• the location and type of any fire safety and any other safety equipment including, if applicable, marine safety equipment; and
• the location of any kitchen on the premises.

The plan may include a legend through which the matters mentioned or referred to above are sufficiently illustrated by the use of symbols on the plan.

The following information may be added to your plans. This is not a mandatory requirement but will assist your application by making it easier for us and the responsible authorities to understand your application and how the premises are to be operated.

• Plans to be dated and bear the name and location of the premises
• To be endorsed with a location plan showing the site of the premises
• The scale used to be endorsed on the plan
• The total extent of the proposed licensed area to be defined by a continuous red line
• Emergency exit routes not intended to be used for the consumption of alcohol to be uncoloured

• Where areas of the premises are to be used for specific purposes to which the licence will apply for example, children only allowed into one area, adult entertainment and showing of films, those areas should be outlined and defined in a key accompanying the plan

Applications for premises licences and variations, club premises certificates and variations, or for a provisional statement shall be advertised for a period of no less than 28 consecutive days starting on the day after the day on which the application was given to the relevant licensing authority, by displaying a notice which is;

• of a size equal or larger than A4;
• of a pale blue colour;
• printed legibly in black ink or typed in black in a font of a size equal to or larger than 16;

The notice shall be displayed prominently at or on the premises to which the application relates where it can be conveniently read from the exterior of the premises. Where the premises covers an area of more than fifty square metres, will display further notices in the same format every 50 metres along the external perimeter of the premises abutting any highway; and by publishing a notice;

• in a local newspaper, circulating in the vicinity of the premises (preferably the Plymouth Herald);
• on at least one occasion during the period of 10 working days starting on the day after the day on which the application was given to the relevant licensing authority

Where the application is for a premises licence or club premises certificate, the notice shall contain a statement of the relevant licensable activities or relevant qualifying club activities it is proposed will be carried on or from the premises.

Where the application is for a provisional statement, the notices;

• shall state the representations are restricted after the issue of a provisional statement; and
• where known, may state the relevant licensable activities which it is proposed will be carried on or from the premises.

Applications to vary a premises licence or club premises certificate shall briefly describe on the notice the proposed variation and state;

• the name of the applicant or club;
• the postal address of the premises, or if there is no postal address for the premises a description of those premises sufficient to enable the location and extent of the premises to be identified;
• the postal address and, where applicable, the website where the register of the relevant licensing authority is kept and where and when the record of the application may be inspected;
• the date by which an interested party or responsible authority may make representations to the relevant licensing authority;
• that the representations shall be in writing; and
• that it is an offence knowingly or recklessly to make a false statement in connection with an application the maximum fine on summary conviction being unlimited.