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FOI/EIR 25/26-569-Premises Licences
Breakdown of premises licences: active, processing and determined in past five years
Request received 2 March 2026
I am requesting the following information held under the Licensing Act 2003:
1. ALL CURRENTLY ACTIVE PREMISES LICENCES, including:
Licence reference number
Premises name
Full premises address and postcode
Licence holder name
Designated Premises Supervisor (DPS) name, where held
Licensable activities authorised (e.g. sale of alcohol, regulated entertainment, late-night refreshment)
Permitted operating hours
Date licence was granted
2. ALL PREMISES LICENCE APPLICATIONS CURRENTLY IN PROGRESS (received by the authority but not yet determined), including:
Application reference number
Premises name and full address
Date of application
Application type (new licence / variation / transfer / review)
Licensable activities applied for
Operating hours applied for (where available)
Current status
3. ALL PREMISES LICENCE APPLICATIONS DETERMINED in the last 5 years, including:
Premises name and full address
Application type
Date of application
Date determined
Outcome (granted / refused / withdrawn)
Licensable activities where granted
Permitted operating hours where granted
Responded 16 March 2026
This information is available on our website. Please go to: Public Register - Licensing | East Cambridgeshire District Council. Please go to advance, licences and then select premises, and finally (without selecting anything else) in the issued section at the bottom enter 01/01/2021 to 10/03/2026 you get 178 responses.
In respect of those requests that were answered in full or partially and the total refused please take this as notice under FOIA, that we:
a) Consider the information as exempt from disclosure under the Act:
b) Claim exempt under sections of the Act:
Section 21 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000
c) State why the exemption applies:
The information requested is accessible to you via other means at: Public Register - Licensing | East Cambridgeshire District Council
Section 21 states the following:
- Information which is reasonably accessible to the applicant otherwise than under Section 1 is exempt information.
- For the purposes of subsection (1) –
- Information may be reasonably accessible to the applicant even though it is accessible only on payment, and
- Information is to be taken to be reasonably accessible to the applicant if it is information which the public authority or any other person is obliged by or under any enactment to communicate (otherwise than by making the information available for inspection) to members of the public on request, whether free of charge or on payment.
Therefore, as the Council publish this information, the information is exempt from disclosure under Section 21 of the Act.