Annex 1 - Mandatory conditions
Alcohol shall not be sold or supplied except during permitted hours:
1 Subject to the following paragraphs, the permitted hours in the FIRST FLOOR LOUNGE AREA on weekdays shall extend until midnight.
Except on Sundays immediately before bank holidays, the permitted hours in the first floor lounge area on Sundays shall extend until midnight.
On Sundays immediately before bank holidays, the permitted hours shall extend until 2am in the morning following, except that -
a) The permitted hours shall end at midnight on any Sunday on which music and dancing (gaming) is not provided after midnight;
b) Where music and dancing (gaming) end between midnight on any Sunday and 2am, the permitted hours on that Sunday shall end when the music and dancing (gaming) end.
The sale of alcohol must be ancillary to the use of the premises for music and dancing and substantial refreshment.
2 Subject to the following paragraphs, the permitted hours on weekdays in METRO NIGHTCLUB, TRAFALGAR SUITE, ROYAL SUITE, QUEENS SUITE and LANCASTER SUITE shall extend until two o’clock in the morning following except that -
a) The permitted hours shall end at midnight on any day on which music and dancing is not provided after midnight; and
b) On any day that music and dancing end between midnight and 2am, the permitted hours shall end when the music and dancing end.
In relation to the morning on which summer time begins, the following shall have effect -
a) With the substitution of references to three o’clock in the morning for references to two o’clock in the morning.
Except on Sundays immediately before bank holidays, the permitted hours on Sundays shall extend until thirty minutes past midnight in the morning following, except that -
a) The permitted hours shall end at midnight on any Sunday on which music and dancing is not provided after midnight;
b) Where music and dancing end between midnight on any Sunday and thirty minutes past midnight, the permitted hours on that Sunday shall end when the music and dancing end.
On Sundays immediately before bank holidays, except Easter Monday, the permitted hours shall extend until two o'clock in the morning following, except that -
a) The permitted hours shall end at midnight on any Sunday on which music and dancing is not provided after midnight;
b) Where music and dancing end between midnight on any Sunday and 2am, the permitted hours on that Sunday shall end when the music and dancing end.
The sale of alcohol must be ancillary to the use of the premises for music and dancing and substantial refreshment.
3 Permitted hours in all OTHER LICENSED AREAS are as follows:
a) On weekdays, other than Christmas day, Good Friday, or New Year’s Eve, 11am to 11pm
b) On Sundays, other than Christmas Day or New Year’s Eve 12noon to 10.30pm
c) On Good Friday, 12noon to 10.30pm
d) On Christmas Day, 12noon to 3pm and 7pm to 10.30pm
e) On New Year’s Eve, except on a Sunday, 11am to 11pm
f) On New Year’s Eve on a Sunday from 12noon to 10.30pm
g) On New Year’s Eve from the end of permitted hours on New Year’s Eve to the start of permitted hours on the following day (or if there are no permitted hours on the following day, midnight on 31st December)
The above restrictions do not prohibit:
a) During the first twenty minutes after the above hours the consumption of the alcohol on the premises;
b) During the first twenty minutes after the above hours, the taking of the alcohol from the premises unless the alcohol is supplied or taken in an open vessel;
c) During the first thirty minutes after the above hours the consumption of the alcohol on the premises by persons taking meals there if the alcohol was supplied for consumption as ancillary to the meals;
d) Consumption of the alcohol on the premises or the taking of sale or supply of alcohol to any person residing in the licensed premises;
e) The ordering of alcohol to be consumed off the premises, or the dispatch by the vendor of the alcohol so ordered;
f) The sale of alcohol to a trader or club for the purposes of the trade or club;
g) The sale or supply of alcohol to any canteen or mess, being a canteen in which the sale or supply of alcohol is carried out under the authority of the Secretary of State or an authorised mess of members of Her Majesty’s naval, military or air forces;
h) The taking of alcohol from the premises by a person residing there; or
i) The supply of alcohol for consumption on the premises to any private friends of a person residing there who are bona fide entertained by him at his own expense, or the consumption of alcohol by persons so supplied; or
j) The supply of alcohol for consumption on the premises to person employed there for the purposes of business carried on by the holder of the licence, or the consumption of liquor so supplied, if the liquor is supplied at the expense of their employer or of the person carrying on or in charge of the business on the premises.
4 Alcohol may be sold or supplied for one hour following the hours set out above and on Christmas Day, between 3pm and 7pm to persons taking table meals in the restaurant areas, or in a part of the premises usually set apart for the service of such persons and for consumption by such a person in that part of the premises as an ancillary to his meal. For other purposes or in other parts of the premises the hours set out above shall continue to apply.
5 No person under fourteen shall be in the bar of the licensed premises during the permitted hours unless one of the following applies:
a) He is the child of the holder of the premises licence.
b) He resides in the premises, but is not employed there.
c) He is in the bar solely for the purpose of passing to or from some part of the premises that is not a bar and to or from some part of the premises where there is no other convenient means of access or egress.
d) The bar is in railway refreshment rooms or other premises constructed, fitted and intended to be used bona fide for any purpose to which holding of the licence is ancillary.
In this condition “bar” includes any place exclusively or mainly used for the consumption of intoxicating liquor. However, an area is not a bar when it is usual for it to be, and it is, set apart for the service of table meals and alcohol is only sold or supplied to persons as an ancillary to their table meals.
6 No supply of alcohol may be made under the premises licence -
a) At a time when there is no designated premises supervisor in respect of the premises licence,
or
b) At a time when the designated premises supervisor does not hold a personal licence, or his personal licence is suspended.
7 Every supply of alcohol under the premises licence must be made or authorised by a person who holds a personal licence.
8 Any individual employed on the premises to carry out a security activity must be licensed by the Security Industry Authority.
9 The terms, conditions and restrictions detailed in the Blackpool Borough Council Entertainments Licences (Standard Conditions) Regulations 1985 must be adhered to at all times.
Music must not be excessive in volume and must be under the control of the licence holder or his duly appointed representative. The requirements of the Licensing Authority's Environmental Health Division in relation to levels of noise produced inside or outside the premises as a result of, incidental to, or arising from the public entertainment, shall be complied with.
The premises shall not be used for public entertainment on Sunday except between the hours indicated and then only for (i) musical entertainment as defined by the Sunday Entertainments Act 1932, and (ii) dancing in respect of which an admission charge is not made.
Non standard timings for public entertainment: Permitted hours extend to 0200 on Bank Holidays EXCEPT Easter
Areas and permitted numbers for public entertainment (namely public music and dancing and any other entertainment of a like kind):
Springs Nightclub - 550
Royal Suite -
Balmoral Room: closely seated and dancing: 550, Exhibition and Banqueting: 175
Buckingham Room: closely seated and dancing: 600, Exhibition and Banqueting: 200
Trafalgar Suite -
Nelson Room: closely seated and dancing: 340, Exhibition and Banqueting: 120
Hamilton Room: closely seated and dancing 140, Exhibition and Banqueting: 50
Queens Suite -
Sandringham Room: closely seated and dancing: 100, Exhibition and Banqueting: 70
Windsor Room: closely seated and dancing: 200, Exhibition and Banqueting: 100
Combined: closely seated and dancing: 300, Exhibition and Banqueting: 200
Lancaster Suite -
Neville Room: closely seated and dancing: 60, Exhibition and Banqueting: 30
Mortimer Room: closely seated and dancing: 100, Exhibition and Banqueting: 50
Beaufort Room: Closely seated and dancing: 175, Exhibition and Banqueting: 75
Combined: closely seated and dancing: 355, Exhibition and Banqueting: 155
Crystal Room - 70
Promenade Room - 150
First Floor Lounge Bar - 250