Applicants should have regard to their Licensing Authority's "Licensing Policy Statement" when filling out their form, and should contact their local licensing officer for further guidance where necessary. Licensing authorities are usually part of your local authority.

Contact details for your local authority can be found on the Directgov website.

A list of industry specific guidance documents produced by trade bodies is available separately.

Application forms are also available separately.

To download the MS Word versions of the Guidance, Right-mouse button over the relevant document link and choose ' Save Target As...' , you'll then be able to save the document in the appropriate place on your computer and read it offline at your leisure.  Depending on how your computer is set-up to download documents, left-mouse button clicking on Word documents to open them may produce errors. 

Premises Licences

Guidance - Application for a premises licence (PDF 104k)
Guidance - Application for a premises licence (MS Word 189k)
Guidance - Application for a premises licence (Welsh version) (PDF 91k)
Guidance - Application for a premises licence (Welsh version) (MS Word 696k)

Club Premises Certificates

Guidance - Application for a club premises certificate  (PDF 102k)
Guidance - Application for a club premises certificate (MS Word 180k)
Guidance - Application for a club premises certificate (Welsh version) (PDF 99k)
Guidance - Application for a club premises certificate (Welsh version) (PDF 690k)

Guidance notes for other types of application are under development.