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What this is

The Notice is the free letter from Opening Notice. It is weekly, and it lives here as a page. It is not the paid list of applications.

The list is dated premises licence applications: new versus transfer, a council page you can open, and, when you take Founding National, a way to verify and export by place. That layer is £99 a month, locked. This letter does not reprint those rows.

Issue 1 covered how to read a notice. Issue 2 covered the gap between a licence and a press story. This week is the check itself: open the council page before you treat a date as real.

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Why the page is the source

Under the Licensing Act 2003 a premises licence application is a public document on a licensing authority’s site. Our row is a pointer. The authority’s page is the source.

If you sell food and drink into new rooms, that check is the craft. A name on a spreadsheet is not enough. You need the premises, the address, the application type, and the date, read on the council site.

New grant versus transfer still matters. A new grant is a licence that is not already there. A transfer moves an existing licence. Both are public. They are not the same job. The short version is New grant or transfer.

The five-step check

The method is the same as How to check a notice on the council site.

1. Open the council page.
2. Read the premises name and the address on that page, not on ours.
3. Read the application type, in particular new grant versus transfer.
4. Read the date on the notice.
5. If the page has moved, use the council’s own licensing search. The authority is the source.

That is the whole check. There is no dashboard score and no map. If a page 404s, the council has pulled or moved the notice. We do not invent a replacement. Our note is a pointer, not advice.

One sourced case, same method

We still only date pairs we can open. Not a sample. Not an average.

Shah’s, Reading: licence dated 12 August 2026; announcement 21 August 2026. Nine days. Domus, Bristol: new grant dated 14 August 2026 on the Bristol grants register; Bristol Post story 28 August 2026. Fourteen days.

In both cases the useful move is the same: the application was visible before the story, and you can open the council paper. We do not invent a typical lead time from two pairs.

Monday sheet versus weekday notice

A weekly openings spreadsheet and a list of council applications are different products. One dumps openings. The other points at dated applications you can verify. Do not pay twice for the same job.

Public list prices we checked on 27 August 2026 sit in a dated note. The short piece is A Monday spreadsheet and a weekday list.

Coverage

As of 10 September 2026 the live file still holds 32 applications across 13 councils. Last retrieved 29 August 2026. The councils are Bolton, Bristol, Camden, Charnwood, City of London, Cornwall, Croydon, Derby, Dudley, Kensington and Chelsea, Reading, Rother, and Wealden.

Four of those are London: Camden, City of London, Croydon, and Kensington and Chelsea. The goal is all 33 London authorities. We do not invent a national completion date. If a licensing authority is not on that list, it is not in the product.

The Notice does not reprint those rows. See coverage if you want the same list on its own page. That page may lag the file.

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If you want future issues, subscribe. We’ll email The Notice weekly. You can unsubscribe any time.

Founding National is a different ask. It is the weekday list: dated applications, new versus transfer, a page you can open. £99 a month, locked. There is no live checkout. That request lives on the price page.

The Notice is free. The list is not.

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