Peter C. "None of which are down to "regulated entertainments" and the controls over those issues are not being taken away. As I said in my previous post you need to read the consultation doucments for yourself."

You clearly don't live at the back of a pub, and you've clearly never fought a brewery. An entertainments licence can have any number of clauses built into it to suit the particular circumstances. EG., with the pub I've been fighting, fire doors and windows now have to be kept closed while music is being played, and a time limit is imposed after which the music has to cease. Moreover, instruments and pa's have to be loaded and unloaded at the front of the pub, rather than at the rear where the noise of same was disturbing neighbours.

Those clauses were acheived because local people objected to the renewal of the licence. How are we to acheive any level of control over this pub if there's no licence to object to.

This is all part of David Cameron's big society philosophy. Strip the state of its powers and all will be sweetness and light. I don't think.