What's needed is for a council with PEL responsibilities (ie not a County Council) to decide to formally adopt a sensible policy.

This can then be a precedent, and a focus for us to press other councils to follow suit.

It would also provide an occasion to lobby Kim Howells, directly and via MPs, urging him to make a public statement saying that the government welcomes this sensible approach, in contrast to "the over-zealous enforcement by a handful of local authorities" that he has criticised.

It sounds to me as if, under the pressure from Shambles and from others writing letters - especially Americans, Weymouth may have started to move in this direction. More pressure please.