Hearing

Loud noise forces 80% of customers to leave a pub

10-Mar-2020 By Alice Leader

A new study shows eight out of 10 people have cut their visit to a pub, restaurant, or café short because of noise, with 75% of people saying they would eat out more often if venues were quieter, according to the charity Action on Hearing Loss.

Licensing

Legal advice: Evidence deadlines for hearings

07-Sep-2016 By Poppleston Allen

Want to change your hours? Make sure you follow all the rules.

Pubs asked to turn down the music for deaf customers

28-Apr-2016 By Mike Berry

Pubs have been urged to turn the music down and the lights up to help create a better experience for the 10 million deaf and hard of hearing in the UK.

legal advice

How to face a licensing hearing - and win

09-Apr-2015 By Poppleston Allen

In this article, we highlight some more practical issues that operators can face if they choose or are otherwise required to attend a licensing hearing without legal representation.

Legal advice: Dealing with licensing committees

27-Oct-2014 By Poppleston Allen

September has been a very busy month in terms of hearings for my firm and the experience has been something of a curate’s egg.

Make Some Noise: Publican who spent £12k to limit noise escapes 'inaudibility' licence condition

08-Oct-2014 By Ellie Bothwell

A licensee, who spent £12,000 in an effort to limit noise disturbance from her pub, has escaped an ‘inaudibility’ condition on her licence, after battling through her second licence review hearing.

Latest PICA-Service cases get postponed and settled

17-Apr-2013 By Michelle Perrett

PICA-Service was due to deal with two separate complaints at hearings scheduled for the 8 and 9 April but one was settled before the hearing and the second postponed.

Enterprise Inns found in breach of code in first two PICA-Service cases

01-Nov-2012 By Michelle Perrett

Enterprise Inns has been found in breach of its code of practice in the first two cases to go through the Pubs Independent Conciliation and Arbitration Service (PICA-Service).

Licence nightmare north of border

14-Apr-2010 By Gemma McKenna

Between a third and a half of premises licences in Scotland have not been issued or are factually incorrect after seven months.

Enterprise denies legal threat claims

14-Dec-2009 By John Harrington

Enterprise Inns has denied allegations from Greg Mulholland that it has made legal threats against the Parliamentary Committee probing pubcos, as well as the media. But the MP has hit back.

BBPA: pub code ready by early December

11-Nov-2009 By Ewan Turney

The new code of practice for pubcos will be available in full by the time of the BISC hearing in early December, says BBPA.

High profile campaigner declared bankrupt

07-May-2009 By Ewan Turney

High profile tenant rights campaigner Inez Ward has been made bankrupt this morning. Ward, lessee at Mavericks in Newquay, Cornwall owed Enterprise...

Fears grow over awareness on new noise regs

17-Jan-2008 By James Wilmore

Fears are mounting over a huge lack of trade awareness over new noise regulations and the way councils will enforce them. The Control of Noise at...

Pubs told to listen up over noise regs

10-May-2007 By James Wilmore

Employers in the pub trade could face a "wave of compensation claims" if they fail to implement new noise regulations coming in next year, a charity...

Martin to the defence of happy hours

27-Mar-2003

JD Wetherspoon boss Tim Martin has defended the way happy hours operate in "the vast majority of pubs". Martin, who was giving evidence to a select...