And as the council do now have to pay anyway to obtain Premise Licence enertainment permission on their land for the various parades, festivals etc that they organise - to expect other groups who may wish to organise their own events on this the only available land to pay the council for this - is perhaps not such a generous approach as it may appear.

To continue in my cynical mood about the general buck passing etc.

The triple 'whammy' is when both the ones responsible for making the legislation and the ones who enforce it - join together and totally wah their hands to inform you that the final decision of course will a matter for the courts to decide........