There's some much-needed good news for pubs in today's Spring Budget with a promised discount of £1,000 off business rates for pubs with a rateable value of less than £100,000; that's around 90% of all pubs. Many in the pub [...]
As specialist pub sector solicitors, we are advising an increasing number of tied pubco tenants about rent proposals, rent assessments and the renegotiation of leases. On the face of it, the newly introduced Pubs Code 2016 [...]
Following a period of embarrassing delay and uncertainty (while the Department for Business Innovation & Skills addressed some last-minute drafting anomalies), the long-awaited new Pubs Code finally came into force on 21st July 2016. Whilst the delay meant that many [...]
Wetherspoons’ boss, Tim Martin, is celebrating. After donating £200,000 to the Brexit campaign, distributing hundreds of thousands of Brexit beer mats across his chain of pubs, and even creating a new ‘Brexit’ ale, he has good reason to feel [...]
If you’re thinking of buying a leasehold pub owned by one of the big pub companies you may well be wondering about the implications of the forthcoming Pubs Code Regulations, due to take effect in the Summer of 2016. The [...]
