PARTLY

As of 13 August 2026, AI can only partly prepare your premises licence application.

This still needs a person who signs their name to it.

Can you do it?

15 minutesto a draft.

2 hoursto something you’d act on.

Cost, all in£0

Skill neededchat-fluent

Who has to check ita professional

What the alternative costsThe supplied tool information gives no price for a solicitor or licensing specialist.

If this goes wrong: the application can be incomplete or poorly framed, causing delay, objections or extra professional and administrative work.

What to actually do

  1. Hand it to a person

    The route this page recommends

    Someone with a licence or accountable authority has to sign this before it counts.

  2. Use a tool built for this

    Second choice

  3. Do it yourself

    The distant third

    A chat interface, chat-fluent skill, and roughly 2 hours until you can act on the result.

    How to actually do it

    1. Open the premises licensing page on your local council website and the relevant premises licence guidance on GOV.UK, then save the current application form, instructions, fee information and plan requirements.
    2. Gather the premises plan, company or applicant details, proposed licensable activities, sale or supply hours, opening hours, noise and safety procedures, current licences and any details for the proposed designated premises supervisor.
    3. Paste the council form and guidance into a chatbot with the prompt, then add the gathered facts and attach the premises plan and policies where the service supports documents.
    4. Ask the chatbot to produce the field-by-field draft, operating schedule, missing-information list and source map without filling gaps by assumption.
    5. Compare every drafted name, address, activity, date, hour and document against the council form, your premises plan and your business records, and correct the source material rather than accepting an invented entry.
    6. Send the draft, source documents and unresolved questions to a UK licensing solicitor or licensing specialist, and ask them to check the operating schedule, plans, consultation requirements and submission route.
    7. Complete the official council form using the checked draft, obtain any required consent or signature, and submit it through the council's stated process with the required documents and fee.

    Prompt

    You are helping prepare a UK premises licence application, not providing legal advice and not submitting anything. Use only the facts and documents I provide, and do not invent details, activities, opening hours, licences, policies, addresses or plans. First list the current requirements shown in the local authority form and guidance I paste or attach. Then create: 1. a field-by-field draft for the application, 2. a proposed operating schedule covering the four licensing objectives, 3. a list of supporting documents and missing information, 4. a list of statements that need confirmation by me, and 5. questions a UK licensing solicitor or licensing specialist should answer. Quote or point to the source document for each requirement where possible. Separate factual entries from suggested wording. Flag anything that depends on local authority practice, a premises plan, a designated premises supervisor, a personal licence, advertising, consultation or a minor variation. Do not decide that the application is legally sufficient and do not tell me to submit until every missing item is resolved. Details: [LOCAL AUTHORITY] [PREMISES ADDRESS] [APPLICANT OR COMPANY] [PREMISES ACTIVITIES] [PROPOSED HOURS] [OPENING HOURS] [DESIGNATED PREMISES SUPERVISOR, IF KNOWN] [PERSONAL LICENCE DETAILS, IF KNOWN] [CURRENT POLICIES AND PROCEDURES] [LOCAL AUTHORITY FORM AND GUIDANCE] [PREMISES PLAN]

    Open it prefilled in ChatGPT or Claude, or copy it into Gemini, which takes no prefill link.

What it gets wrong

What caps this at PARTLY: legal accountability, verification cost and judgement under ambiguity.

How we scored this

Five axes, each scored nought to two by hand: ten means AI carries the task cleanly, and the thresholds that turn a total into YES, PARTLY or NO are published in the methodology. Each axis name links to its definition.

AxisScore (0–2)
Output1
Inputs1
Verification1
Liability0
Effort delta1
Total4 / 10

The methodology and its thresholds are published in full.

FAQ

Can ChatGPT complete a premises licence application?
It can draft answers, an operating schedule and a checklist from the council's form and guidance, but it cannot confirm that the application is complete or suitable for your premises. You remain responsible for the submission, so have a UK licensing solicitor or licensing specialist check a serious or contentious application.
What information do I need for a premises licence application?
You normally need the applicant's details, premises address, activities, proposed hours, premises plan and operating schedule, plus any information required by the relevant local authority. Get the exact list from your council's current form and guidance, then use AI to organise the material without inventing missing facts.
Can AI write an operating schedule for a premises licence?
AI can turn your actual procedures and proposed activities into draft wording covering the licensing objectives. It cannot judge whether those controls are realistic, sufficient or appropriate for the premises, so a licensing solicitor or licensing specialist should check the final schedule.
Is it safe to use AI for a premises licence application?
It is reasonable to use AI for document organisation and a first draft, provided you use current council material and check every factual entry. This is not professional advice, and a serious, unusual or disputed application needs a UK licensing solicitor or licensing specialist.

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Assessed by gpt-5.6-luna (gpt-5.6-luna) on 2026-08-13, second-checked by an independent model. Wrong somewhere? Email [email protected] and it gets re-checked.

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