New Business - Bar / Cocktail Lounge

Hello, I'm hoping someone can help me. I'm looking to open a business, possibly in Bury. A bar / cocktail lounge. 2 friends who live in Bury showed me the sights recently and I was encouraged there seems to be an active high street with all the shops you'd expect to see. It seems the high street is still doing well unlike most. We checked out the area around veuve and the wetherspoons. Being from out of town, I was hoping to get any sort of advice from the locals about any things I should be considering, good or bad. Is there a top/most trusted estate agents that might deal with the best potential commercial properties to let? I'm happy to create a bar from a blank canvas, or are there are existing empty bars that might be able to be revived in the right hands (in terms of location etc)? Are bury council gonna tell me to do one the second i ask for a late alcohol license in town? Any help / advice / knowledge would be most appreciated. Thanks in advance.