Your Pubs Code Library

Please ensure that you familiarise yourself with the following documents, many of them created by the Pubs Code Adjudicator (PCA), as they are there to protect you.

Your Pubs Code Rights exist to ensure you can:

• Access all the information you need to make an informed choice about whether to enter into a Tied Agreement.
• Have a rent assessment every five years.
• Access discussion notes about rent, repairs, and your business rights.

Relevant documents:

• A Guide to the Pubs Code
• A Guide to Punch Insurance
• British Beer and Pub Association (BBPA) Dilapidations Best Practices Guide
• Business Development Managers and Code Compliance Officers PCA Factsheet
• Rent Proposals – PCA Factsheet
• Repairs and Dilapidations PCA Factsheet
• Short Agreements PCA Factsheet
• Significant Price Increases – PCA Factsheet
• Tenant Timeline
• Trigger Events PCA Factsheet

Independent Professional Advice

Ensure you get independent advice from an appropriately qualified advisor before you enter a tied agreement with us. Make sure your advisor has professional indemnity insurance and are accredited by an appropriate professional association like RICS, IFA or CIMA.

Relevant Documents:

• British Institute of Innkeeping (BII) Memberships
• Getting Help and Support with the Pubs Code – PCA Factsheet
• Pubs Code Arbitration Disputes – PCA Factsheet
• Tenancy at Will Overview

Market Rent Only (MRO) Guides

Specific circumstances dictate your right to this option. Access the following documents to discover the detail:

• PCA Factsheet – MRO Independent Assessors
• PCA Factsheet – MRO Rights
• Punch MRO FAQs

Your Pubs Co Advice and Important Information

• Useful links
• Renewal of a tied agreement – PCA Factsheet

Code Compliance Report

Donna Gracey, our Code Compliance Officer, is required by the PCA to submit an annual report detailing Punch’s compliance with the Pubs Code.

• Pubs Code Compliance Report 2023