Fee earner: Mr. Shah Shahriar

Fees for

Licensing applications in relation to businesses

 

Our fees for applying for a new premises licence are £1000.00

Our fees to vary a premises licence to allow those premises to be used for one or more licensable activities are £ 850.00

The above mentioned fixed fees are exclusive of VAT and disbursements.

Disbursements

 

 

Disbursements are costs related to your matter that are payable to third parties, such as the application fee. We will pay the disbursements on your behalf to ensure a smoother process.

  • Application fee (payable to licensing authority) to be confirmed based on the relevant authority;
  • Advertising fee may vary based on the method of advertising;
  • Enquiry agent fees to display public notices may vary;
  • Special delivery fee to serve the application £6.50 -£26.94
  • Printing additional copies of plans if necessary £50-£170

*These fees vary depending on the individual premises and where it is located. The fees can on occasion be higher than the ranges given above. We will give you an accurate figure for each item as soon as we are able to do so.

Fee includes:

 

 

  • Taking your instructions and advising you as to how you can promote the licensing objectives within your application
  • Advising you as the type of plans you are required to submit with your application.
  • Completing the application form for a new premises licence (including the operating schedule) in accordance with your instructions and submitting this to

the local licensing authority alongside suitable plans. You must provide suitable plans.

  • Providing guidance on the fee levels payable to the licensing
  • Preparing copies of the premises licence application for disclosure to the responsible authorities and serving copies of the application on the responsible authorities.
  • Drafting the notices advertising the premises licence application and submitting the notice to the local
  • Arranging with you for you to display the notice(s) advertising the premises licence application and advising as to where and how this should be done by you in order to comply with the requirements of the Licensing Act
  • Providing a Designated Premises Supervisor (DPS) consent form for signature by a personal licence holder proposed by
  • Checking the licence once granted and correcting any errors with the licensing authority.
  • The fee does not include:
  • obtaining suitable plans
  • attending pre-consultation       meetings      with    the     Licensing      Authority    or Responsible Authorities, nor their fee for this
  • dealing with or advising you in relation to queries or representations received from either the responsible authorities or other interested parties
  • advising on varying the licence
  • attendance and representation at a licensing sub-committee hearing of the responsible authority. If representations are received and attendance and representation at a licensing sub-committee is required then we will provide a separate fee estimate for this work which will be charged at an hourly

How long will my application take?

 

 

Matters usually take …….weeks from receipt of full instructions from you. This is on the basis of the application being relatively straightforward and you being able to provide all the necessary documents promptly. If your matter is more complex, for example, if there is substantial opposition from interested parties, or if there is a delay in receiving the documents we need, it may take longer.

For Complicated matters/Appeals we will charge you the following hourly rates for extra work:

Time spent on your matter may include meetings with you and perhaps others; attendance at hearings; any time spent travelling and waiting; considering, reading and working on papers; preparation of any detailed costs calculations.

correspondence, by letter or email, including perusal of incoming correspondence; photocopying and telegraphic transfer charges and making and receiving telephone calls. Where more than one fee earner is engaged on your matter either within one department or across two departments, we will charge you for the time spent between fee earners.

The amount of time spent on your matter will be influenced by the manner in which you respond to our requests for information. Timely provision of up-to-date information will help us to spend less time on your matter than might otherwise be the case.

Routine letters and emails that we write and routine telephone calls, texts that we make and receive will be charged as units of 6 minutes. Other letters and calls will be charged on a time-spent basis.

The current charging rate that applies to our firm, and are exclusive of VAT, are as follows,

Senior Solicitors: £300.00 per hour – over 8 years post qualification experience

Assistant Solicitors: £250.00 – over 4 years post qualification experience

Consultants and RFLs: £200.00

Paralegals: £190.00

Case workers:  £150.00

Trainee solicitors: £150.00

If we have agreed fixed fee, we will endeavour to carry out the work within the fixed fee. However, if the matter has become complicated or prolonged for whatever reasons we reserve the right to charge you according to our standard hourly rate but we will inform you of the same before we do so.