Licensing fees
Based in Birmingham, Allerton & Gladstone Solicitors can help with licensing applications. Take a look below at our current licensing fees.
Licensing (Business Premises) Work Fees
In most transactions, we charge a fixed fee for our our licensing work. Our fees are as follows:
| Type of Licensing | Fees |
|---|---|
| Legal Costs: | *Prices quoted exclusive of VAT* |
| *VAT is applicable at 20%* | |
| New Premises licence application | £950.00 |
| Application to Transfer Premises Licence together with an application to vary an existing Premises Licence to specify an individual as designated premises supervisor | £450.00 |
| Application to vary an existing Premises Licence | £950.00 |
| Disbursments: | |
| Disbursements are payable to third parties and are costs related to your matter, an example of this is fee payable to the local authority but these are set by individual authorities and can vary. That fee will not attract VAT. We will tell you about any additional disbursements if they arise and agree these with you in advance. | |
| Fees for newspaper advertisement | £350.00 – £650.00 (inclusive of any vat) |
| The application fee payable to the local authority | Set by individual authorities and can vary |
| Referrals: | |
| As a business we have developed relationships with various other professionals both regionally and nationally to ensure that we can offer our services in a competitive market place. In some instances, we may pay fees for work to referred to us. We pay such fees from our business marketing budget. We feel that this is important so that our clients are not obliged to pick up the cost of a referral. | The typical fee paid is between £75.00 and £350.00. |
Work We Will Do
We will:
- Identify the local authority
- Accurately identify the type of application you will require
- Obtain the relevant documents required to make the application
- Complete the electronic or paper based application to the local authority
- Correspond and negotiate with the local authorities your goals to be reflected in the licence
- Await receipt of the licence application
Potential Additional Work and Fees
Please note if there are objections and matter proceeds to a Licensing Sub-committee, then we will usually instruct counsel to represent you at the hearing. If that is necessary, Counsels fees will be incurred as an additional disbursement.
We will agree the identity of Counsel with you before Counsel is instructed and let you know the likely amount of those Counsels Fees. That will vary depending on the identity and experience of Counsel, but typically for a hearing of this kind they might be in the region of £750 – £1500 exclusive of vat.
Counsels Fees ordinarily (but do not always) attract vat.
Any additional fees of our firm will be charged at our hourly rate (see the table below) and will attract vat.
Timescales
Typically, obtaining the licence takes between 4 to 16 weeks, but can be considerably longer if there are issues the local authority wish to raise an objection towards.
Our Team
Got a question about our licensing fees? For clarification and to book an appointment with our team, call Allerton & Gladstone Solicitors in Birmingham today.
This firm is authorised & regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) No: 805323
This firm does not accept service of proceedings by email or facsimile