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Where West Yorkshire councils publish licence applications
Leeds, Bradford, Kirklees, Wakefield and Calderdale: where each council publishes premises licence applications, and what each source shows.
Published
Each of the five West Yorkshire councils is its own licensing authority and publishes applications in its own way. This is where we found them when building the sample issue in November 2026.
| Council | Where | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Leeds | Public Access licensing search | Filter by licence type, application type, ward, status and date received. Records show hours, activities and consultation dates. |
| Bradford | Licensing register on bradford.gov.uk | The council notes that some information may be missing from the register. |
| Wakefield | licensing.wakefield.gov.uk | Online public register. |
| Kirklees | kirklees.gov.uk/licensing | Online public register. |
| Calderdale | Public register on calderdale.gov.uk | Online public register. |
The newspaper notices
New applications and full variations are also advertised in local papers, and the Public Notice Portal gathers those notices with a postcode and radius search. A 15-mile search from Bradford city centre found 19 Alcohol & Licensing notices outside Leeds published between 10 October and 9 November 2026: nine in Bradford, five in Kirklees, four in Wakefield and one in Calderdale. A radius from Bradford misses east Wakefield and west Calderdale, so for full coverage it needs more than one search point.
Registers and notices are not the same list
- Notices cover new applications and full variations only.
- Transfers, manager (DPS) changes and minor variations appear only on the council register.
- Some notices are listed with a headline only (a street and a date), and need the full notice opening to see the applicant and hours.
CiviFlow reads both, removes the duplicates and keeps the records that suggest spending.