Two points: to JB. If the licence contains fixed conditions, eg the provision of triple glazing or crash rails, you don't get a licnece until these are complied with. Only then can any remaining conditions (eg the provision of bouncers) be disapplied by the small premises exemption!

To others: The goverment does not want to listen. In the present political climate, listening and amending one's position in the light of reason is seen as political weakness and "flip-flopping". We will never ever achieve anything by reason. Constitutional lawyers are united that our democracy is no longer functional. We may achieve change by propaganda victory (if the press come massively on-side), or by massive force (Ireland, or Poll Tax). Remember, you will have to be bigger than Arthur Scargill's miners. Otherwise the only route to change is to change the government, and incredibly and regrettably, the other possibilities are worse still.

The time is coming for the second great constitutional change in the UK, because once again the people have no voice. The last time it took a civil war and about a quarter of the population dead. It led to the Bill of Rights in 1688 and the Act of Settlement in 1700.