It is Council policy is to encourage opportunities for citizens to enjoy entertainments both as participants and as audiences. In furtherance of this objective, the Council strongly urges those seeking premises licences for the provision of alcohol in public houses and member clubs to include licencing of the premises for entertainment within their application. The licence fee is unaltered provided the requests are made together.

This will not do. For example, what about a coffee bar or cafe not wishing to serve alcohol, who will only have to apply and pay for a Premises Licence if they wish to provide regulated entertainment?

The Council affirms that it will seek the minimum licence conditions [for regulated entertainment] consistent with the licencing objectives .

Add the following - but scrap all the rest of the detail.

The Council also affirms that it will recognise that, as worded in the Act, where the playing of recorded music is exempt from the licensing requirement as incidental, that the performance of live music will also be exempt as incidental.