Sevenoaks District Council's licensing register shows a premises licence application for the Fleur De Lis on Leigh High Street, received on 27 July 2026 and open to representations from residents.

A premises licence application has been made for the Fleur De Lis on Leigh High Street, and it is the only application for a premises licence itself, rather than a change to an existing one, on the whole of the Sevenoaks district register. The council’s licensing register records it under reference 26/03334/LAPRE, received and validated on 27 July 2026, with the status “Outstanding consultations” and no representations logged so far. (Sevenoaks District Council, Public licensing register, premises licence tracker, extracted 3 August 2026)

The pub is a listed building. The Fleur de Lis Cottages and Fleur de Lis Public House were listed at Grade II on 16 January 1975, and the entry describes an L-shaped range of 1855 in Tudor style, red brick striped with blue headers, with five half-timbered gable ends to the road and stone mullioned windows. (Historic England, National Heritage List entry 1258595, via Kent Heritage Maps)

A premises licence is what a business needs to sell alcohol, provide regulated entertainment or serve hot food late at night. The register records the Fleur De Lis application under the code the same file uses for the grant of a licence, not the transfer or minor variation codes that appear against other entries on it. The register also shows a public notice period for the application running from 3 to 10 August 2026.

Why an application here is news

The Fleur De Lis was put on the market by Greene King in May 2025 at an asking price of £475,000 through the agents Fleurets, who described it as a Victorian building “with external elevations of brick featuring a large bay window, stone mullion windows and half-timbered gables”, with a single-storey side extension and a range of outbuildings to the rear. (Kent Online, Fleur de Lis pub in Leigh up for sale for £475,000, 31 May 2025)

Two public registers suggest the pub is not currently trading as a food business. It does not appear among the 952 premises on the Food Standards Agency’s food hygiene register for the Sevenoaks authority, which it would if it were operating a kitchen. (Food Standards Agency, food hygiene rating data, Sevenoaks authority) CAMRA’s WhatPub entry, surveyed on 3 February 2026, lists no opening hours and records cask ale as not available. (CAMRA WhatPub, Fleur de Lis, Leigh)

The last entry for the premises before this one on the council’s licensing register is a designated premises supervisor application from November 2022. We have not been able to reach anyone connected with the application, and the council’s online portal does not publish the details of applications while they are still under consultation, so we do not yet know what hours or activities are being applied for, or who the applicant is. That information becomes public once the application is determined, and we will report it then.

Timeline for the Fleur De Lis premises licence application: received 27 July 2026, public notice 3 to 10 August, representations to about 24 August, then a decision or hearing
The application's key dates from the register and the licensing regulations. Confirm the representation deadline with the council before relying on it.

How the consultation works, and until when

This is the part worth acting on if you live in the village. Under the regulations that govern the Licensing Act 2003, representations can be made “at any time during a period of 28 consecutive days starting on the day after the day on which the application to which it relates was given to the authority by the applicant”. (The Licensing Act 2003 (Premises licences and club premises certificates) Regulations 2005, regulation 22)

The register gives 27 July 2026 as the date the application was received and validated. On that basis the 28 day period runs to 24 August 2026. Because only the licensing authority can confirm the date an application was formally given to it, anyone planning to write in should check the closing date with the licensing team rather than rely on our arithmetic.

The 3 to 10 August dates on the register are the public notice period. Separately from that, the same regulations require the applicant to display a pale blue A4 notice at the premises, readable from outside, for at least 28 consecutive days from the day after the application was given to the council, and to advertise in a local newspaper on at least one occasion within the first 10 working days. (The Licensing Act 2003 (Premises licences and club premises certificates) Regulations 2005, regulation 25)

What it means for you

Anyone can comment. Government guidance is explicit that “any person or business may make representations on premises licence applications”, and you do not have to live next door. (GOV.UK, Alcohol licensing)

What matters is what you say. A representation only counts if it relates to one of the four licensing objectives: the prevention of crime and disorder, public safety, the prevention of public nuisance, and the protection of children from harm. Noise late at night, cars parking across driveways, litter and drinkers spilling onto the road are the sorts of things that land under those headings. Not wanting a pub to reopen, or thinking the village has enough of them, is not. The licensing authority decides whether a representation is relevant and “not frivolous or vexatious”, and if it is relevant it must hold a hearing to consider it. At that hearing the sub-committee can grant the licence with extra conditions, cut back the activities applied for, or refuse it. (GOV.UK, Alcohol licensing)

Representations go to the Licensing Partnership, which runs licensing for Sevenoaks District Council, at Council Offices, Argyle Road, Sevenoaks TN13 1HG, by email to licensing@sevenoaks.gov.uk or by phone on 01732 227004. Quote the reference 26/03334/LAPRE. (Sevenoaks District Council, Premises licence)

The rest of the district’s licensing register

Two other applications are currently marked as open on the register, and both are narrower. Chiddingstone Castle has an application received on 24 July 2026 to change its designated premises supervisor, the named individual responsible for alcohol sales at a licensed premises, and The Old Eden in Edenbridge has the same kind of application, received on 3 August 2026. Neither changes what the premises is licensed to do. (Sevenoaks District Council, Public licensing register)

The full register is worth knowing about if you follow this sort of thing. The council publishes it as a set of CSV files, updated to the end of the previous working day, covering premises licences, temporary event notices, personal licences, gambling premises, scrap metal dealers and taxi licences. It is the fastest way to see what is being applied for near you, and it is more current than the searchable portal, which does not show applications while they are under consultation.

If you want to keep an eye on what is coming to your village more broadly, our guide to Sevenoaks planning applications explains how to search the planning portal for your own street and how to comment on an application there, which is a separate process with different rules. Our guide to the best pubs in Sevenoaks and its villages covers what is open now across the district.

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Image: Fleur-De-Lis, Leigh by Chris Whippet, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Geograph. The photograph predates the current application and shows the pub under its previous Greene King signage.