Comment on a gambling licence

• 3 objectives
• How to comment on a gambling licence
• Submit a comment
• Current licence applications
• Contact

3 objectives

The Gambling Act 2005 has 3 objectives:  

• keeping gambling crime-free 
• making sure that gambling is fair and open 
• protecting children and vulnerable adults 

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How to comment on a gambling licence

Anyone can have a say about licensing decisions. Your comments can be either positive or negative. Making comments is also known as making representations. 

You can: 

• comment on a new licence or change of licence application  
• ask for a review of an existing licence or comment on a licence review 

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Submit a comment

You must be an interested party and your comments must be relevant. 

Please send your comments to licensing@haringey.gov.uk. You may ask a representative, such as a councillor or chamber of commerce, to write on your behalf. 

Interested parties 

Comments can only be made by interested parties or a responsible authority such as the police. 

An interested party is someone who: 

• lives sufficiently close to the premises to be affected by the proposed activities 
• has business interests that might be affected by the proposed activities 
• represents people in either of the above groups (eg lawyer, accountant, councillor, community association, chamber of commerce etc)  

Relevant comments 

Your comments must be relevant and cannot be about: 

• gambling generally 
• planning issues, which should be addressed to our planning team 
• anti-social behaviour issues, which should be reported to the police (external link) 

They should relate to one or more of the following: 

• the Gambling Commission’s codes of practice (external link) 
• the Gambling Commission’s guidance to licensing authorities (external link) 
• the three gambling objectives (see above) 
• our gambling policy statement 

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Current licence applications

Please see our list of current licence applications. 

Please see our list of gambling licences currently under review. 

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Contact

Tel: 020 8489 8232  

Email: licensing@haringey.gov.uk

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