That's rather what I had assumed was happening with the inspections. Reassuring.

Circuses coming to Harlow always use the same patch of ground.
Surely it'd be quite open to a local authority to grant a single annual licence to a particular patch of land, to be used by all circuses coming to town? In the same way as it is suggested in tyenguidance that they should for Morris Dancer pitches.

(NB The term PEL ceases to be the right official term for anything under the new Act, so though it is indeed stupid in various ways, it's not accurate to refer to it as "the stupid PEL bill".)