Red line plans for licensed areas

BYO permit (club, restaurant or cafe)

If your BYO permit is for a club, restaurant or cafe, include in your red line plan:

• any areas where customers can drink alcohol at your venue
• toilets and bathrooms.

The licensed area cannot include any public areas, such as laneways or footpaths.

Use Example A as a guide. Do not include the footpath or kerbside area shown as AA on the example.

BYO permit (commercial party bus)

If your BYO permit is for a commercial party bus, you do not need a red line plan.

Include in your red line plan:

• any area where you will sell alcohol, such as bars or registers
• any area where your customers can drink alcohol, including any outdoor areas (for example, a privately-owned courtyard)
• toilets and bathrooms.

Do not include storage rooms, unless customers will be able to access them.

You cannot include any public areas in your red line plan, such as laneways or footpaths.

Do not use a satellite image to create your plan. It does not show us the internal layout of your venue.

Use Example A as a guide. Do not include the footpath or kerbside area shown as AA on the example.

Include in your red line plan:

• any area where you will sell alcohol, such as your bar and register
• any area where your customers can drink alcohol, including any outdoor areas (for example, rear courtyards or beer gardens)
• toilets and bathrooms.

Do not include storage rooms, unless customers will be able to access them.

Do not include any kerbside, footpath or laneway areas in your red line plan, even if council has given you permission to use them. If you have council permission, you can do table service or allow customers to drink in those areas up until 11 pm.

Use Example A as a guide. Do not include the footpath or kerbside area shown as AA on the example.

Include in your red line plan:

• any area where you will sell alcohol
• any area where your customers can drink alcohol, including any outdoor areas
• the layout of your event and all the important areas
• toilets and bathrooms.

Do not use a satellite image of the site as the basis for your red line plan.

For larger events, you may need several red line plans that show the areas of activity. If so, you must also provide a larger site plan where we can see the whole event.

Use Example A as a guide but do not include the AA area.

Include in your red line plan:

• any area where you will sell alcohol, such as your bar and register
• any area where your customers can drink alcohol, including any outdoor areas
• toilets and bathrooms
• any kerbside, footpath or laneway areas that your council has given you permission to use. Label them as AA (authorised area).

You do not need to include storage rooms, unless customers will be able to access them.

Use Example A as a guide.

Include in your red line plan:

• any area where you will sell alcohol, such as your register or checkout
• any area where customers can browse your stock, including cool rooms, storage bays and shelving areas
• toilets and bathrooms (only if they are open to customers).

Do not include any areas that your customers cannot access, such as loading docks or back-of-house storerooms.

Use Example B as a guide.

If you have a cellar door (customers visit your location)

Include in your red line plan:

• any area where you will sell alcohol
• toilets and bathrooms.

Do not include in your plan:

• areas where you distil, produce or store alcohol, unless you intend to let customers browse, drink or buy alcohol from these areas.

Be aware your annual licence renewal fees(opens in a new window) are based on the square metres of your licensed area.

Consider including your gardens or vineyards in your plan if you:

• frequently serve alcohol directly to customers in these areas (for example, from a bar or kiosk)
• have events in those areas more than 6 times a year (for example, weddings or other functions).

Do not include gardens or vineyards in your plan if:

• your customers collect a picnic basket (with alcohol), or a bottle of alcohol from inside your red line plan, and then wander your grounds and drink it in your gardens or vineyards
• you only have a few events a year that use your gardens or vineyards.

If you hold events in your gardens or vineyards occasionally (less than 6 times a year) and they are not licensed, you need to apply for a temporary limited licence. This gives permission to extend your licensed area for these events.

Use Example A as a guide. Do not include the footpath or kerbside area shown as AA on the example.

If you do not have a cellar door (customers do not visit)

Include in your red line plan any areas where you:

• distil, produce and store your alcohol (if you produce it yourself)
• store and fulfil orders, if relevant (for example, if you pay someone else to make alcohol under your direction but you store and prepare orders at your location).

Use Example B as a guide.

Your red line plan must include the area where you will pack the orders ready for delivery.

If you have multiple locations or addresses where you fulfil orders, you must provide a red line plan for each location.

You do not need to include:

• toilets and bathrooms
• storage areas.

Use Example B as a guide.

Your red line plan depends on how you supply alcohol.

If you:

• serve alcohol at your venue (with or without packaged alcohol), follow the on-premises licence requirements.
• only sell packaged alcohol, follow the packaged liquor licence requirements.

Include in your red line plan:

• any area where you will sell alcohol, for example your till or cash register
• any area where your customers can drink alcohol, including any outdoor areas
• kitchens, toilets and bathrooms
• any kerbside, footpath or laneway areas that your council has given you permission to use. Label them as AA (authorised area).

You do not need to include storage rooms, unless customers will be able to access them.

Use Example A as a guide.

Include in your red line plan:

• any area where you will sell alcohol, such as bars or registers
• any semi-permanent or temporary structure that you will sell alcohol from during sporting events, such as a canteen
• any area where your customers can drink alcohol, including any outdoor areas (for example, a privately-owned courtyard)
• toilets and bathrooms.

Do not include in your red line plan:

• sports fields, ovals or any of the field areas where people are playing sport
• storage rooms, unless customers will be able to access them
• any public areas, such as laneways or footpaths.

Do not use a satellite image to create your plan. It does not show us the internal layout of your venue.

Use Example A as a guide. Do not include the footpath or kerbside area shown as AA on the example.

If your venue is at a sporting ground

We recommend you do not include the seating next to the sports field in your red line plan. If you do, you will be legally responsible for all alcohol supplied or consumed in that area at all times, even when you're not there. This includes potential penalties for unaccompanied minors in these areas.

If you want to sell alcohol during sporting events, you need to apply for this as a condition on your licence. This is called adding 'point of sale' conditions.

To get point of sale conditions, if you:

• do not have a licence yet, ask for these conditions when you apply
• already have a licence, ask for these conditions by applying to make changes to your existing licence conditions.

Include in your red line plan:

• the event layout with all the key areas – do not use a satellite image
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• the event address and surrounding street names (or an arrow to the closest street if there are none nearby)
• areas where you will sell alcohol – point of sale, such as a bar or register
• areas where customers can drink alcohol, including outdoor areas
• show and label key areas such as kitchens, toilets and individual stallholders
• include the total floor space of your licensed area in square metres
• describe how you will mark the boundaries of your licensed area (for example, walls, barriers, ropes).

Do not include sporting activity areas in your red line plan, such as ovals or bowling greens.

For larger events, you may need several red line plans that show multiple areas of activity. If so, you must also provide a larger site plan where we can see the whole event.

Use Example A as a guide. Do not include areas marked as AA in the example. If you will operate more like a bottle shop, use Example B as a guide instead.