Has it been advertised for three years?

In the last two years in my borough, a jam session in a venue without a PEL, has been advertised every week and more, without any investigation or enforcement action. In this same period, two folk sessions that had never been advertised, have been prevented by the Council, for the lack of a PEL.

Quite how the officers square this, is yet to be established but it may be an idea to go on the atttack and publicise the issue of why the Council have failed (for 3 years at the Palm Tree) in their statutory duty to protect the public, rather simply defend a problem presented to sessions, that is seen to be ours alone. Not much to lose at this stage.

The level of incompetence that would lead these officers to overlook these events for so long and fail in what they have so earnestly claimed to be the Council's statutory duty is sufficient enough for them to be guilty of maladministration and a breach of Sch. 1, s. 12(1)(b)(i)', Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1982'.

Maladministration defined as: The Council not following its own rules or the law.

You might also add that 3 years is a long time for officers of the council to be in breach of s.12(1)(b)(i) Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1982.

This makes it a criminal offence for anyone [quite separate from those concerned in the organisation or management of entertainment] 'knowing or having reasonable cause to suspect that such an entertainment would be so provided at the place... allowed the place to be used for the provision of that entertainment..'.

This means your Council's officers. This (discreet) threat (of a possible formal complaint), may bring about a change of attitude and present the Council with a problem?