COMMERCIAL / BARS, PUBS & HOSPITALITY VENUES
Bars and venues that get licensed, built and open.
Premises licences and variations, venue design and fit-out for pubs, bars and hospitality — including sensitive town-centre and heritage locations.
- We handle
- Premises licensing
- Includes
- Design + fit-out
- Settings
- Town-centre · heritage
- Pedigree
- Greene King → independents
- “We need a licence variation and the residents' association is organised.”
- “The building has character — we don't want it value-engineered away.”
- “Who actually coordinates licensing, design and build?”
Licensed venues are the studio's oldest ground: Tom's background is pub and licensed-industry design, working for operators from Greene King and Mitchells & Butlers to independents. A venue application is an operating schedule, a noise and amenity case, and a design that shows the licensing committee a responsible operator — prepared together, not separately.
From there the fit-out: bar servery, cellar, kitchen, acoustics and the front-of-house character that makes a venue worth crossing town for — in new shells and in heritage buildings where the fabric is the atmosphere.
- A licensed-trade pedigree most studios can't offer — Greene King, M&B, Enterprise, Brains, Marston's, Whitbread.
- Licensing strategy and venue design prepared as one argument, not two documents.
- Comfortable in heritage settings — we secured A3/A4 consent inside a Grade I Georgian square.
Former Seamen's Institute — a bar-restaurant in a Grade I townscape
A3/A4 consent secured for a characterful venue in one of Bristol's finest historic squares — with four holiday lets above.
Read the case studyCan you handle a premises licence from scratch?
Yes — new applications, variations and reviews under the Licensing Act 2003, with the operating schedule and committee-ready noise and amenity case.
Do you work in listed buildings?
By preference. Heritage venues are where our licensing and conservation expertise overlap — see the Seamen's Institute.
Can you also run the fit-out?
That's the point of the studio: the licensing argument, the design and the construction are one accountable programme.
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A venue is a licence, a room and a date. We do all three.
A short conversation with Tom is the fastest way to find out what’s possible — no fee, no obligation, an honest read on your site.