Comment on a gambling licence

Objectives, how to comment on a gambling licence and current licence applications.

3 objectives

The Gambling Act 2005 has 3 objectives:  

  • keeping gambling crime-free 
  • making sure that gambling is fair and open 
  • protecting children and vulnerable adults 

How to comment on a gambling licence

Anyone can have a say about licensing decisions. Your comments can be either positive or negative. Making comments is also known as making representations. 

You can: 

  • comment on a new licence or change of licence application  
  • ask for a review of an existing licence or comment on a licence review 

Submit a comment

You must be an interested party and your comments must be relevant. 

Please send your comments to us via email. You may ask a representative, such as a councillor or chamber of commerce, to write on your behalf. 

Interested parties 

Comments can only be made by interested parties or a responsible authority such as the police. 

An interested party is someone who: 

  • lives sufficiently close to the premises to be affected by the proposed activities 
  • has business interests that might be affected by the proposed activities 
  • represents people in either of the above groups (eg lawyer, accountant, councillor, community association, chamber of commerce etc)  

Relevant comments 

Your comments must be relevant and cannot be about: 

  • gambling generally 
  • planning issues, which should be addressed to our planning team 
  • anti-social behaviour issues, which should be reported to the police

They should relate to one or more of the following: 

Current licence applications

Please see all our current licence applications

Contact the licensing team

Please note this phone number and email address are NOT for house in multiple occupation (HMO) licensing queries.

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