Statement of Licensing Policy: Licensing Act 2003

Overview

North Northamptonshire Council’s Licensing Authority must prepare and publish a statement of its licensing policy at least every five years. The policy must be published before the authority carries out any function in respect of individual applications and notices made under the terms of the 2003 Act. 

The Licensing Act 2003 regulates the following licensable activities:

• Sale by retail of alcohol;
• Supply of alcohol by or on behalf of a club, to, or to the order of, a member of the club;
• Provision of regulated entertainment;
• Provision of late night refreshment.

The current Policy came into effect on the 1 February 2022 and may be viewed here: Licensing policy | North Northamptonshire Council

The draft Policy – what has changed?

The draft Policy provides updated information and advice to existing and potential licence holders and to residents and responsible authorities about the promotion of the licensing objectives under the Act. The Licensing Authority has also taken the opportunity to revise the Policy to reflect the latest statutory guidance issued to licensing authorities by the Home Office under Section 182 of the 2003 Act.

View the draft Policy

View the draft Policy Equality Screening Assessment

The consultation period commences on Monday 24 August and closes on Friday 9 October 2026.   

If you would like to comment on the draft Policy, it would be helpful if you could include your name, address, and contact telephone number.  If you are responding on behalf of an organisation, it would help us if you could give the name of the organisation, your position in that organisation and a brief description of who the organisation represents. Please also state the paragraph or section number which relates to your comment/s. If your comment is more general in nature or relates to an issue not covered within the draft Policy, please indicate which of the licensing objectives has relevance.  

Email responses should be sent to: licensing@northnorthants.gov.uk

Postal responses should be sent to: 

North Northamptonshire Council
Regulatory Services Licensing Administration Team
Cedar Drive
Thrapston
Northamptonshire
NN14 4LZ

Please note that copies of consultation responses are likely to be made publicly available.  The information they contain may also be published in a summary of the responses.

This consultation will close at 23.59 on 9 October 2026.

For information about how responses are managed, please see the Environmental health, protection and licensing privacy notice.