Current Premises Licence Register
Case reference FOI2026/01120
Received 10 May 2026
Published 2 June 2026
Request
Under section 1 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000, I would like to request a copy of Herefordshire Council's premises licence register as currently held under the Licensing Act 2003.
I would be grateful if the data could be provided in a machine-readable format (CSV, XLSX, or JSON in preference to PDF). For each licensed premises currently in force, the fields I am requesting are:
1. Premises name and any trading name
2. Full address including postcode
3. Licence number / reference
4. Date the current licence was issued / start date
5. Licensable activities permitted
6. Permitted hours (where summarised in your register)
7. Current designated premises supervisor (DPS), where applicable
8. Current licence holder
I am happy to receive the data via email attachment, or via a download link if that is more practical. Please confirm receipt of this request.
If any part of this request is unclear, or if a partial response would require fee approval, I would welcome the opportunity to refine the scope rather than receive a refusal.
Response
Under section 1 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000, I would like to request a copy of Herefordshire Council's premises licence register as currently held under the Licensing Act 2003.
I would be grateful if the data could be provided in a machine-readable format (CSV, XLSX, or JSON in preference to PDF). For each licensed premises currently in force, the fields I am requesting are:
1. Premises name and any trading name
2. Full address including postcode
3. Licence number / reference
4. Date the current licence was issued / start date
5. Licensable activities permitted
6. Permitted hours (where summarised in your register)
7. Current designated premises supervisor (DPS), where applicable
8. Current licence holder
I am happy to receive the data via email attachment, or via a download link if that is more practical. Please confirm receipt of this request.
If any part of this request is unclear, or if a partial response would require fee approval, I would welcome the opportunity to refine the scope rather than receive a refusal.
A: The information requested in parts 1 – 3 are publically available on Herefordshire Council’s website and can be viewed via the following link:
https://www.herefordshire.gov.uk/downloads/file/2282/licensed_premises_register
As such we consider this information to be exempt under Section 21 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 because it is reasonably accessible to you via other means. Please take this letter as a refusal notice under S17 of the Act.
The remaining information requested in parts 4 - 8 is not held in a form that would enable it to be located, retrieved and extracted within the Appropriate Time Limit which equates to 18 hours as defined by the Freedom of Information and Data Protection (Appropriate Limits and Fees) Regulations 2004.
These details are not recorded on our public register. There are 1182 licenses that are current which would mean we would need to go into each one to check, and retrieve the date licence was issued, licensable activities, permitted hours, DPS and current licence holder. To check each record for this information would take approximately 5 minutes.
This would at a conservative estimate take at least 98 hours to complete. Where the Limit is exceeded Public Authorities are not obliged to supply the information requested by virtue of S12 of the Act. Please take this letter as a refusal notice under S17 of the Act.
If there are any specific licenses from the register that you would like to receive this information for, for example premises in a certain postcode, please let me know and I can approach the service area for this.
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