Ledgerline Licensing · West Perth
Perth liquor licences, prepared and lodged.
New licences, transfers on settlement, extended trading and one-off events. The licence is the long pole — start it before the joinery.
Fixed fee before we start · we tell you when you don’t need us.
- New licence, prepared and lodgedfrom $3,400
- Transfer on settlementfrom $1,850
- Extended trading permitfrom $950
- Occasional licence for an eventfrom $390
Our fee, quoted before we start. The regulator’s own application fee is separate, it is set by regulation, and you pay it direct — we do not print it here.
Worth knowing before you ring anybody
A small bar, restaurant, producer or club application needs no public interest assessment. That is the heaviest document in a licence file, and the regulator lists all four as not requiring one.
What we do
Six applications, six fixed fees.
Our fee is for preparing the bundle and running it through to a decision. The regulator’s own application fee is separate and you pay it direct.
New licence application
From$3,400Plans, particulars, the section 40 and section 39 certificates, the harm minimisation plan, and a public interest assessment where the class needs one.
plus the regulator’s own fee, paid directLicence transfer on settlement
From$1,850Changing who holds the licence when a going concern sells. We work backwards from your settlement date, not forwards from today.
plus the regulator’s own fee, paid directAlteration or redefinition
From$1,200A courtyard, a mezzanine, a moved bar, a new licensed area. Fresh plans and a fresh planning certificate from your council.
plus the regulator’s own fee, paid directExtended trading permit
From$950Extra hours, an extra area, or a different manner of trade. The regulator charges no application fee for a permit lodged with a grant application — so lodge it then.
plus the regulator’s own fee, paid directOccasional licence for an event
From$390One occasion of no more than three weeks. This is the cheapest thing on the page and usually the one you should do yourself — the card below says so plainly.
plus the regulator’s own fee, paid directObjection response & Liquor Commission
From$2,200Someone has objected, or a decision of the Director of Liquor Licensing needs reviewing. Written submissions, evidence, and the hearing.
plus the regulator’s own fee, paid directWe do not print the regulator’s fees on this page. They are set by regulation, they change, and they are not ours to quote. The current schedule sits on the regulator’s own fees page, and you pay it direct — it never passes through our account.
Which licence do I need?
Three plain questions, twenty-four combinations, every one of them answered. Here is where your answers land right now.
Indicative only. Class names as published by the Western Australian regulator under the Liquor Control Act 1988.
Change any answer
For a place where people sit and eat, both of those answers change the class.
A restaurant licence under section 50 of the Act authorises liquor for consumption with a meal supplied by the licensee. What separates it from a tavern is that the meal comes first: the business has to be built around the regular supply of genuine meals, with a kitchen, proper toilets, and a dining area always set with tables and chairs.
What we would do next: plans, licensee particulars, the section 40 planning certificate and the section 39 local government certificate, then lodge through the regulator’s portal.
The road you did not take
You can lodge this yourself.
Applications go straight to the Director of Liquor Licensing through the regulator’s own online portal, and no agent is required. The regulator states it in writing: the legislation does not require a public interest submission to be prepared by legal counsel or industry consultants. Ring us if the objection window, the public interest assessment or a settlement date is what worries you — that is what we are for.
How it works
Four steps, and one of them is us talking you out of it.
Twenty minutes on the phone
The room, the hours, the headcount, and the date you have to be open by. Bring the lease and the floor plan if you have them.
We tell you if you don’t need us
An occasional licence is a short form and an afternoon. Plenty of restaurant applications are close to it. When that is the answer we say so and send you the link.
We build the bundle
Plans, particulars, council certificates, harm minimisation plan, and the public interest assessment where the class requires one. You sign; we lodge.
We lodge, then we chase
Council, police and health queries, objections if they come, and a written position for the Director. You get a one-line status every fortnight until it lands.
What operators say
Three recent files.
“We had the fit-out priced and the joiner booked before anyone mentioned the licence. Ledgerline redrew the plan so the courtyard sat inside the licensed area first time, which saved us a redefinition six months later.”Operator, 60-seat eatery — Mount Lawley
“Transfer had to land on settlement day or the vendor kept trading under their own licence. It landed. The fortnightly one-liner meant I never had to ring and ask.”Purchaser, suburban tavern — Bassendean
“I rang about a one-day event licence and they told me to do it myself, showed me the form, and did not charge me. We used them a year later for the small bar.”Committee member, sporting club — Bayswater
Where we work
Perth metro, and the council whose certificate you need.
Your planning certificate comes from the local government (or the relevant planning authority) for the district your premises sits in. These are the councils we lodge through most often.
- West Perth
- Northbridge
- Leederville
- Mount Lawley
- Subiaco
- Victoria Park
- Fremantle
- Scarborough
- Bassendean
- Bayswater
- Joondalup
- Canning Vale
Also across the South West on a scheduled trip — Margaret River, Dunsborough, Busselton, Bunbury. Suburb-level service area; we come to your site.
Questions we get every week
The plain answers.
Do I actually need an agent?
No. Applications are lodged directly with the regulator through its own online portal, and its published guide walks an applicant through preparing, lodging and following an application. On the public interest assessment — the heaviest single document in a licence application — the regulator’s own words are that the legislation does not require a public interest submission to be prepared by legal counsel or industry consultants.
What we sell is time and sequence, not access. If your file is simple, do it yourself and keep the fee.
How long will my application take?
We do not publish a turnaround, because it is not ours to publish. It depends on whether your class is advertised, whether anyone objects, how quickly your council issues its certificates, and how complete the bundle was on day one. Only the last of those is inside our control, and it is the one we are paid for.
What you will get from us is the order things must happen in, and where your file sits in it.
Which applications need a public interest assessment?
The regulator lists them. A public interest assessment is required for hotel and hotel restricted, tavern and tavern restricted, liquor store, and nightclub applications, and those applications are usually advertised. It is not required for small bar, restaurant, wholesaler, producer, or club and club restricted. If you are applying for a special facility licence you will be told whether one is needed.
What will the regulator charge me?
We do not print that figure. Application fees are set by regulation, they change, and quoting a stale number would be worse than quoting none. The current schedule is published on the regulator’s own fees page and you pay it direct.
One fee we can point at, because the regulator states it plainly: there is no application fee for an extended trading permit lodged together with a grant of licence application. If you think you will want extra hours, ask for them at the same time.
What are the section 39 and section 40 certificates?
A section 40 certificate comes from the authority responsible for planning matters in your district — usually your local government — and states whether the proposed use of the premises complies with the planning laws, or would comply if consent were granted. A development approval can be lodged instead, provided it names the licence type you are seeking and sets out the planning authority’s conditions.
A section 39 certificate comes from local government and states whether the premises complies with the Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1911, the Food Act 2008, any written law on sewerage or drainage, the Local Government Act 1995 and the Building Act 2011 — and if it does not, how it could be made to.
Who needs an approved manager card?
The licensee must appoint an approved manager to supervise and manage the premises under section 100(2) of the Act, and an approved manager must be present whenever business is being conducted there, under section 100(2a). You cannot be appointed unless the department has issued you a card.
A restricted card needs the nationally accredited Responsible Service of Alcohol course and limits you to occasional, club and club restricted venues. An unrestricted card — any licensed venue in WA — needs the Course in Management of Licensed Premises, with the RSA course as its prerequisite. Get the cards started early; they are not the part you want holding up an opening.
Can a small bar sell takeaway?
No. A small bar licence authorises liquor for consumption on the licensed premises only, and no more than 150 persons may be present at any one time. If sealed takeaway matters to you, you are looking at a tavern licence instead — which is a heavier application, because a tavern needs a public interest assessment and a small bar does not. That is the trade, and it is worth twenty minutes before you sign a lease.
Book a call
Twenty minutes, before you lodge anything.
Tell us the venue and where you are up to. We will call you back the next business day — and if the honest answer is that you do not need us, that is the call you will get.
Thanks — that is enough to make the call useful.
We would ring you back the next business day and spend twenty minutes on the sequence: which class fits, what your council has to certify, and whether you need us at all.
This is a demonstration page, so nothing was sent anywhere. On a live site this form would land in the practice’s matter management system and raise the file.