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    Comment on a gambling licence

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    • How to comment on a gambling licence
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    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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    17 February 2021

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