There is no accounting for taste. But it is perhaps not sensible to base licensing issues on matters of taste.

Would you be kind enough to let me and the rest of this board which of those categories you fall into? I suspect it will be the first question the local authority will ask, so you may as well have your answer ready.

The above are grounds for making an objection to an original licensing application. There are also requirements for who can appeal over a decision after it has been made.

In the case of entertainment permission for this pub - no application has been made or appears (at the moment at least) to be required by the local authority. Although from the information supplied to me (via Dave) they have imposed conditions upon an event they do not appear to consider to be Regulated Entertainment.

The reasons for their position is of legitimate interest to anyone who wishes to ask. And the fact is - should this position be thought questionably legal - open to anyone to mount a legal challenge to test it.

The local authority's decision (so far at least) may be considered as an excellent one by you as it looks like it may enable this event to happen in the short term. - the rather more important judgement (and consideration for them) is if it a legal one.


God help anyone from Canada or eleswhere who dares to make any contribution that is not thought to be totally supportive of some the local views. A view which tends to change and one that with all the heads popping in and then out of the sand is enough to confuse any watching ostrich......