Licence Granted for Licence Number: 889248

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Property details

Licence number:

889248

Trading name and address:

London Craft Beer Festival
Southwark Park , Gomm Road

Ward:

Rotherhithe

Applicant and Designated Premises Supervisor details

Licence Holder:

We Are Beer Limited

Designated Premises Supervisor name:

Louis Morgan

Licence details

Licence type:

Premises - Minor Variation

Date granted:

June 16 2026

Licensable activities and conditions

Opening hours:

Friday 10:30 to 17:00
Friday 17:30 to 22:30
Saturday 10:30 to 17:30
Saturday 17:30 to 22:30
Sunday 10:30 to 16:30

Granted licensable activities:

Live music - indoors and outdoors
Monday 12:00 to 23:00
Tuesday 12:00 to 23:00
Wednesday 12:00 to 23:00
Thursday 12:00 to 23:00
Friday 12:00 to 23:00
Saturday 12:00 to 23:00
Sunday 12:00 to 20:00

Recorded music - indoors and outdoors
Friday 10:30 to 16:30
Friday 17:30 to 22:00
Saturday 10:30 to 16:30
Saturday 17:30 to 22:00
Sunday 10:30 to 16:00

Sale by retail of alcohol to be consumed off premises
Friday 10:30 to 17:00
Friday 17:30 to 22:00
Saturday 10:30 to 16:30
Saturday 17:30 to 22:00
Sunday 10:30 to 16:00

Sale by retail of alcohol to be consumed on premises
Friday 10:30 to 17:00
Friday 17:30 to 22:00
Saturday 10:30 to 16:30
Saturday 17:30 to 22:00
Sunday 10:30 to 16:00

Conditions:

100 - (1) No retail sale 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.

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

340 - The capacity at each session shall not exceed 4999 persons.

341 - There shall be no more than fifty (50) walk-up tickets for sale per session.

342 - A written search policy that aims to prevent customers bringing illegal drugs, weapons or other illegal items onto the premises at any time shall be in place and operate at the event. Anyone found with an offensive weapon on entry will be refused admittance and the Police informed immediately. Entry to the event site maybe be refused to any person who is intoxicated on arrival or clearly under the influence of drugs.

343 - An Event Management Plan will be in place for each event and presented to the S.A.G for scrutiny and final approval, 28 days before the event.

344 - The Noise Management Consultant shall carry out a test of the noise sources prior to the event. The tests shall be conducted at a distance of 1m from the façade of nearby noise sensitive premises.

345 - The Premises Licence Holder shall ensure an officer from Environmental Protection Team (EPT) is invited to the proposed sound tests prior to the event (preferably one day before the event).

346 - The Premises Licence Holder shall ensure that the music noise level limits agreed in the noise management plan are not exceeded during the event.

347 - The Premises Licence Holder shall ensure that regular checks are carried out at a distance of 1m from the façade of the nearest noise sensitive locations to the event (e.g. houses, residential homes, churches as described in the NMP) to monitor the noise and ensure that the limits agreed are not exceeded.

348 - The volume of all sound equipment on site shall be the operational responsibility of the Noise Management Consultant, appointed by the Premises Licence Holder.

349 - No additional sound equipment (other than that described in the ESMP/NMP) shall be used on site without the prior agreement of the council's EPT and the appointed Noise Management Consultant.

350 - The appointed Noise Management Consultant shall monitor noise levels at the sound mixer position during regulated entertainment, and instruct the sound engineer accordingly to ensure that the above noise limits are not exceeded. The Council shall be given access to the results of the noise monitoring at any time.

351 - The Premises Licence Holder shall ensure that all reasonable requests from the Council Officers are complied with.

352 - A comprehensive Dispersal Policy shall be produced and implemented at the premises, with all staff trained on the most recent iteration of the policy. A record of staff training on the Dispersal Policy shall be kept at the premises and a copy of the policy and training records be made available to the council or police on request.

353 - The details of one mobile telephone permanently staffed during performances, and one QR code to load any complaints directly to the Noise Management Team.

354 - The premises shall operate as a craft beer event limited to one weekend per calendar year in Southwark Park in July.

355 - An Event Management Plan will be in place for each event and presented to the S.A.G for scrutiny and final approval, 28 days before the event.

356 - The licensee shall ensure that staff are trained as appropriate, in respect of: Refusal of service Ask for Angela – Ask for Clive Welfare and vulnerability Recording of challenges

357 - This training is to be clearly documented and signed and any training for future staff must also be organised at the appropriate time. Refresher training shall be carried out every 6 months and details of training are to be made available for inspection by Police or other Responsible Authorities, upon request.

358 - A dedicated welfare officer shall be employed at the premises whenever licensable activities are provided. Their role will be to monitor the welfare of customers and liaising with management/security staff to assist where necessary. All welfare interventions and outcomes to be logged in the welfare log.

359 - If a person is deemed to be in a drunk state, staff will be trained to alert the nearest member of senior staff who will liaise with the Head of Security to escort the individual to the production office where they will be assessed as to their level of intoxication. Appropriate action will then be taken, including in severe cases calling the emergency services. All incidences to be recorded in the on-site incident book by event control, in collaboration with the Head of Security.

360 - All staff, particularly those serving on a brewer stands will be instructed that in no instance are they allowed to serve anyone who they feel is intoxicated. In the event they are approached by someone they believe to have consumed too much alcohol they are to Politely refuse service and elevate the incident to a supervisor.

361 - When the service of door supervisors is required during events where licensable activities are provided, the door staff shall be employed to a ratio of 1:150.

362 - The door supervisors shall wear high visibility jackets or vests or high visibility arm bands whilst working at entry/exit points and around the exterior of the building.

363 - The door supervisors shall remain on duty for half an hour after the close of the venue to ensure all patrons are dispersed peacefully from the area.

364 - The door supervisors shall remain on duty for half an hour after the close of the venue to ensure all patrons are dispersed peacefully from the area.

365 - The team will be in full contact via radio, each member of the team will have a headset.

366 - Each area will have a dedicated SIA. Stewards will supplement the SIA and will have key responsibility for manning fire exits. Every fire exit will have a member of staff allocated to it.

367 - Localized staff will have responsibility for crowd management, incident reporting, first aid reporting, evacuation, ensuring exit routes are maintained.

368 - No less than 12 SIA will be posted at the main entry point.

369 - An event control area will be staffed throughout the event logging all incidents and relaying information to key personnel and supervising the welfare team.

370 - DJ & live music sound levels will be always monitored and managed by a dedicated on-site sound technician.

371 - If a noise limiting device or devices are installed, then the entertainment noise control system shall be monitored, checked and calibrated as necessary, so that the approved levels by the Council, are not exceeded.

372 - The contact telephone number for the premises license holder/designated premises supervisor/duty manager shall be displayed inside the premises or immediately outside the premises such that it is clearly visible from outside without the need to enter the premises.

373 - Customers will be allowed 30 minutes drink up time to allow for gradual dispersal.

374 - No children will be allowed onto the site on Friday & Saturday.

375 - The Front of House team will employ a challenge 25 policy at the door. No one challenged will be allowed entry without proper photographic identification such as a passport, driver's license or A PASS holographic I.D card. Records will be kept via Event Control of all challenges and made available to any responsible authority upon request.

376 - The premises shall not be permitted to be used for any adult entertainment or services, activities, other entertainment or matters ancillary to the use of the premises that may give rise to concern in respect of children, which prohibited uses include, among other things, nudity or semi-nudity, films for restricted age groups or any relevant entertainment (with the meaning of the third schedule to the Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1982 except where that is expressly permitted under a licence or waiver granted or given under that legislation.

485 - Irresponsible Promotions: (1) The responsible person must 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 - (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 in a manner which carries significant risk of undermining a licensing objective; (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 in a manner that which carries significant risk of undermining a licensing objective; (d) 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; (e) dispensing alcohol 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).

487 - Free tap water: (1) The responsible person must ensure that free potable water is provided on request to customers where it is reasonably available.

488 - Age Verification Policy: (1) The premises licence holder or club premises certificate holder must ensure that an age verification policy is adopted in respect of the premises in relation to the sale or supply of alcohol. (2) The designated premises supervisor in relation to the premises licence must ensure that the supply of alcohol at the premises is carried on in accordance with the age verification policy. (3) Subject to sub-paragraph (4), 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 either - (a) a holographic mark, or (b) an ultraviolet feature. (4) The age verification policy may make provision permitting a responsible person to accept identification in digital form (“relevant ID”) instead of identification of a type described in sub-paragraph (3). (5) Where provision envisaged by sub-paragraph (4) is included in the policy, the policy must make provision dealing with the circumstance described in paragraph (6). (6) The circumstance in this sub-paragraph arises where- (a) the responsible person has reason to believe that a person (“P”) who seeks to be supplied with alcohol from a place to which the age verification policy applies has not attained the age of 18, or such greater age as the age verification policy may prescribe (“the relevant age”); and (b) P has indicated their wish to use the relevant ID. (7) When the circumstance in paragraph (6) arises, the policy must state— (a) that P is obliged, upon the request of the responsible person, to make available to the responsible person the means by which their relevant ID may be verified; but (b) that the responsible person may only accept P’s relevant ID where the condition in sub-paragraph (8) applies. (8) The condition in this sub-paragraph is that the responsible person is covered by an agreement with a DVSP (“the relevant DVSP”) for the provision of digital verification services where— (a) the relevant DVSP has agreed that it will confirm, in the course of providing its services to the responsible person, whether or not P has attained the relevant age; (b) the relevant DVSP has agreed that it will deliver identification to the responsible person that reaches at least a medium level of confidence; (c) that level of confidence has been verified by a DVSP, whether that DVSP is the relevant DVSP or another; and (d) the relevant DVSP is registered as a provider of those services in accordance with Version 0.4 or Version 1.0 of the DVS trust framework. (9) In this paragraph- (a) “DVSP” means a person who provides digital verification services, and is included in the register maintained by the Secretary of State under section 32 (DVS register) of the Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 (“the 2025 Act”); (b) “DVS trust framework” is to be construed in accordance with section 28 (DVS trust framework) of the 2025 Act; (c) “medium level of confidence”, in respect of identification described in sub-paragraph (8)(b), is to be construed in accordance with— (i) Version 0.4 of the DVS trust framework, in the case that the relevant DVSP, or as the case may be, another DVSP provides the service described in sub-paragraph (8)(c), and is registered as a provider of that service, in the DVS register, in accordance with Version 0.4 of the DVS trust framework; (ii) Version 1.0 of the DVS trust framework, in the case that the relevant DVSP, or as the case may be, another DVSP provides the service described in sub-paragraph (8)(c), and is registered as a provider of that service, in the DVS register, in accordance with Version 1.0 of the DVS trust framework. (10) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (6) “supplied” is to be construed in accordance with section 14 of the Licensing Act 2003. (11) Nothing in sub-paragraphs (4) to (10) prevents the supply of alcohol to a person based upon identification of a type described in sub-paragraph (3).

489 - Availability of Certain Measures of Alcohol: (1) The responsible person must 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) These measures are displayed in a menu, price list or other printed material which is available to customers on the premises; and (c) Where a customer does not in relation to a sale of alcohol specify the quantity of alcohol to be sold, the customer is made aware that these measures are available.

491 - Minimum Pricing (1) A relevant person shall ensure that no alcohol is sold or supplied for consumption on or off the premises for a price which is less than the permitted price as defined in the Schedule to the Licensing Act 2003 (Mandatory Conditions) Order 2014 [UK Statutory Instrument 2014 No.1252] www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2014/1252/contents/made