Comment on a gambling licence

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: 

• the Gambling Commission’s codes of practice
• the Gambling Commission’s guidance to licensing authorities
• the 3 gambling objectives
• our statement of gambling policy

Current licence applications

Please see all our current licence applications.