Hackney Special Policy Areas

Special Policy Areas in Hackney - effective from 1st August 2018. The effect of adopting a special policy, which the Council refers to as a Special Policy Area (‘SPA’), is to create a rebuttable presumption so that applications for new premises licences and club premises certificates or variations of these authorisations, which are likely to add to the existing cumulative impact will normally be refused or subject to certain limitations, following relevant representations being made. The applicant will need to demonstrate in their operating schedule that there will be no negative cumulative impact on one or more of the licensing objectives in order to rebut any such presumption. The boundaries have been created over OS MasterMap based on several factors such us crimes rates, ambulance and emergency services, noise, cost benefit analysis and behaviour studies. This insight was used to propose two Special Policy Areas which were consulted and reviewed.