Do we know for certain how the law will handle changes of licensee ?
If the landlord is not a tenant but a manager, how will this affect things ? If a new license is only required on change of tenant - there might be even more pressure for breweries to only have managed houses.

It is precisely these sort of details that I want to know the answers to. If things go pear-shaped on some of these issues, it may not just be clubs and sessions whose demise we will be lamenting, but the pubs themselves. As I have previously mentioned, we have lost an awful number of pubs in our area in the last 5 years already.