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The Business and Planning Act 2020 has today received Royal Assent and is in force with immediate effect

This Act makes changes to the Pavement Licence procedure and provides off-sales to all non-exempt Premises till 2300

“The Business and Planning Act 2020 has today received Royal Assent and is now in force with immediate effect.

The Act has been enacted in an attempt to restart the British economy due to the Coronavirus pandemic and has introduced a range of new measures to help businesses to quickly adjust and adapt to the ‘new normal’.

The Act is similar to the draft Bill, but there are the following changes:

Pavement Licences – there must be regard to the needs of disabled people and reasonable provisions must be made for an outdoor ‘smoke-free’ area
Off Sales – these are limited to 2300 and existing conditions relating to external areas will continue to apply.

Please contact James Anderson on 0115 9538 500 for any queries.”

About the author: Carl Weston

Carl Weston joined Poppleston Allen solicitors in January 2015 as head of Marketing and Business Development. Carl was promoted to Partner (non-solicitor) in June 2022.

He has over 25 years’ experience in marketing within business-to-business and professional services. He is a committee member of the Business Marketing Club (East Midlands) and in 2021, was made a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Marketing.

Carl sits on Poppleston Allen’s management team and is responsible for communications, legal directory submissions, business development and client listening programmes.

And he takes the lead in managing relationships with several high-profile sponsorships including The Morning Advertiser and the R200.

During his marketing career, Carl and his teams have been recognised with several awards, including the ‘Thomson Reuters International Business Development Award’ for best use of data and technology. Plus, he was named as a future legal management leader by The Lawyer Magazine.

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