Brian

I hope your open approach involving the local councillors will ensure that your plans can go ahead - there is no reason why this should not work. However, in four years of trying, I have yet to find a local councillor who accepts that the current law should prevent customers making music for their own pleasure in a pub with the licencee's permission. Sadly, this has not stopped their officers from preventing all sessions here without the additional licence.

I wish you all the best of luck and it will be helpful to others if you can let us know how you get on?