About Licensing Matters

Our director, Gill Sherratt, is an ex-police officer who spent
5 years as a licensing officer. That is to say experience in not only licensing paperwork and the law but in the practical side of policing licensed premises.

She was responsible for arranging large scale test purchase operations (to catch out venues that were selling alcohol to under age children), prosecuting licensees who didn’t take their role seriously enough and representing the police in Magistrates' court. The list goes on and on. What more could you ask for from someone looking after your interests?

Our company was formed because others didn’t seem to think that licensing really mattered. Gill’s vast experience of dealing with all things licensing showed her that of those representing the industry, there were few specialists. Licensing seemed to be a lower priority and perhaps not given the importance it deserved. Gill could see the industry needed help and Licensing Matters was born.

Licensing Matters has been involved in the new Licensing Act from the start and there is little about this act that we have not already dealt with. We think it’s fair to say that we know it inside out, upside down and back to front.

While based in the North West we work countrywide and have processed hundreds of applications on behalf of clients from all around England & Wales. One client once commented that we 'treat every premises as if it were our own', and that is exactly how it is!

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