Anchor Inn

The Street, Walberswick, Southwold, Suffolk, IP18 6UA

Completed application 051538 which is a New Application for Premises Licence from 28/08/2025 to indefinite

Applicant(s)

Designated Premises Supervisor

Permitted Activities

• a performance of a play
• a performance of live music
• any playing of recorded music
• provision of late night refreshment
• the supply of alcohol

Additional Conditions

• Annex 1 - Mandatory Conditions

   

  Where a premises licence authorises the sale of alcohol, the licence must include the following conditions:

   

  1. (1)No supply of alcohol may be made under the premises licence -

   

           At any time when there is no designated premises supervisor in respect of the premises, or

           At a time when the designated premises supervisor does not hold a personal licence or his personal licence is suspended.

   

  (2)               Every supply of alcohol under the premises licence must be made or authorised by a person who holds a personal licence.

   

  2. (1) The responsible person shall take all reasonable steps to ensure that staff on relevant premises do not carry out, arrange or participate in any irresponsible promotions in relation to the premises.

  (2) In this paragraph, an irresponsible promotion means any one or more of the following activities, or substantially similar activities, carried on for the purpose of encouraging the sale or supply of alcohol for consumption on the premises in a manner which carries a significant risk of leading or contributing to crime and disorder, prejudice to public safety, public nuisance, or harm to children-

   

  (a) games or other activities which require or encourage, or are designed to require or encourage, individuals to-

   

  (i)              drink a quantity of alcohol within a time limit (other than to drink alcohol sold or supplied on the premises before the cessation of the period in which the responsible person is authorised to sell or supply alcohol), or

  (ii) drink as much alcohol as possible (whether within a time limit or  otherwise);

   

  (b) provision of unlimited or unspecified quantities of alcohol free or for a fixed or discounted fee to the public or to a group defined by a particular characteristic (other than any promotion or discount available to an individual in respect of alcohol for consumption at a table meal, as defined in section 159 of the Act);

   

  (c) provision of free or discounted alcohol or any other thing as a prize to encourage or reward the purchase and consumption of alcohol over a period of 24 hours or less;

  (d) provision of free or discounted alcohol in relation to the viewing on the premises of a sporting event, where that provision is dependent on-

   

  (i) the outcome of a race, competition or other event or process, or

  (ii) the likelihood of anything occurring or not occurring;

   

  (e) selling or supplying alcohol in association with promotional posters or flyers on, or in the vicinity of, the premises which can reasonably be considered to condone, encourage or glamorise anti-social behaviour or to refer to the effects of drunkenness in any favourable manner.

   

  3.  The responsible person shall ensure that no alcohol is dispensed directly by one person into the mouth of another (other than where that other person is unable to drink without assistance by reason of a disability).

   

  4.  The responsible person shall ensure that free tap water is provided on request to customers where it is reasonably available.

   

  5. (1) The premises licence holder or club premises certificate holder shall ensure that an age verification policy applies to the premises in relation to the sale or supply of alcohol.

  (2) The policy must require individuals who appear to the responsible person to be under 18 years of age (or such older age as may be specified in the policy) to produce on request, before being served alcohol, identification bearing their photograph, date of birth and a holographic mark.

   

  6.  The responsible person shall ensure that-

  (a) where any of the following alcoholic drinks is sold or supplied for consumption on the premises (other than alcoholic drinks sold or supplied having been made up in advance ready for sale or supply in a securely closed container) it is available to customers in the following measures-

  (i) beer or cider: ½ pint;

  (ii) gin, rum, vodka or whisky: 25 ml or 35 ml; and

  (iii) still wine in a glass: 125 ml; and

   

  (b) customers are made aware of the availability of these measures.

   

• Annex 2 - Conditions Consistent with the Operating Schedule

   

  General Conditions

   

  JUSTICE ON-LICENCE - Licensing Act 1964, S 59, 60 and 63

   

  1         Alcohol shall not be sold or supplied except during permitted hours.

   

  2         In this condition, permitted hours means:

  On weekdays, other than Christmas Day, Good Friday or New Year’s Eve, 11 a.m. to 11 p.m.

  On Sundays, other than Christmas Day or New Year’s Eve, 12 noon to 10.30 p.m.

  On Good Friday, 12 noon to 10.30 p.m.

  On On Christmas Day, 12 noon to 3 p.m. and 7 p.m. to 10.30 p.m.

  On New Year’s Eve, except on a Sunday, 11 a.m. to 11 p.m.

  On New Year’s Eve on a Sunday, 12 noon to 10.30 p.m.

    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 31 December).

   

  3.              The above restrictions do not prohibit:

  a.              the consumption of alcohol on the premises during the first 20 minutes after the above hours;

  b.              the taking of the alcohol from the premises (unless the alcohol is supplied or taken in an open vessel) during the first 20 minutes after the above hours;

  c.                 the consumption of the alcohol on the premises by persons taking meals there during the first 30 minutes after the above hours, if the alcohol was supplied for consumption ancillary to those meals;

  d.              the consumption of the alcohol on the premises by, or, the taking, 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 despatch 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 persons employed there for the purposes of the 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.              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 which is not a bar and to or from which there is not 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 the holding of the licence is ancillary.

   

                In this condition “bar” includes any place exclusively or mainly used for the consumption of intoxicating liquor.  But 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.

   

  SUPPER HOURS CERTIFICATE - Licensing Act 1964, S 68

  5.              Alcohol may be sold or supplied for one hour following the hours set out above to persons taking table meals in the premises 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 ancillary to his meal. For other purposes or in other parts of the premises the hours set out above shall continue to apply.

   

   

  Crime and Disorder

   

   

   

  Public Safety

   

   

   

  Prevention of Public Nuisance

   

  1         The front forecourt area and the terrace shall not be used for any purpose after 23:30 hrs.

   

  2         The back lawn and summer dispense bar shall not be used for any purpose after 00:30 hrs except when a Temporary Event Notice is in force.

   

  3      After 23:00hrs all windows to those parts of the premises used for the provision of  regulated entertainment shall be kept closed when recorded music, other than background music from a radio, portable CD player or other similar device, is being played.

   

  4      After 23:00 hrs all external doors to those parts of the premises used for the provision of regulated entertainment shall be kept closed, other than for access and egress, when recorded music, other than background music from a radio, portable CD player or other similar device, is being played.

   

  5      The volume of the amplification system for any description of musical entertainment shall be strictly controlled so that noise levels are non-intrusive at the boundaries of nearby residential properties.

   

  6      Notices will be placed in the premises and car park requesting customers to disperse quietly on leaving the premises.

   

  7      Music provided at the premises will be unamplified and of low volume to ensure no risk of disturbance at late evening hours.             

   

   

  Protection of children from harm

   

• Annex 3 - Conditions attached after a hearing by the licensing authority