PUB GOVERNING BODY
Promoting the advancement and improvement of Landlord (Pub Owning Companies) and tied tenant relationships in the licensed retail sector.
How Do We Help?
The Pub Governing Body covers signatory companies that own between 1 – 499 tied pubs in England and Wales.
We achieve this through the publication of Codes of Practice which set the standards for landlords and enhances their business relationship with tenants and lessees subject to a contractual purchasing obligation.
Codes of Practice
The Code of Practice describes the minimum requirements governing the operation of tied public houses by companies with less than 500 tied premises. Companies with 500 or more tied premises are governed by statutory legislation, namely the Pubs Code and Adjudicator regulations 2016.
Tenanted
A self-employed publican (tenant) rents a pub property from a pub-owning company, typically a brewery or large pub company, and operates it as their own business.
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Leased
A business operator (the lessee or publican) acquires the right to occupy the pub property for a significant, predetermined period, typically five to twenty-five years, and operates it as their own independent business.
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Tenants and lessees of companies with more than 500 pubs are governed by the Pubs Code 2016 and come under the Pubs Code Adjudicator.
The PGB Group
The Pub Governing Body Ltd group is made up of three separate and distinctive schemes/companies:
PGB
Overall governance body, responsible for establishing minimum standards of practice & case protocols for PIRRS & PICA-Service.
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PICA-Service
Pubs Independent Conciliation & Arbitration Services; a dispute resolution service for tied tenants/lessees.
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PIRRS
Pubs Independent Rent Review Scheme; a rent dispute resolution procedure for tenants/leeses.