Had a word with Martin, Councillor Martin. He thinks it is crazy that in planning, when a scheme is rejected, another scheme may be submitted at no extra cost to the applicant. It therefore doesn't make sense, that having paid for the licence, a amendment can't be made, especially since it was new legislation, at no extra cost to the licencee. The costs involved in processing a second planning application are astronomical when compared to the ticking of a box on a licence. This is ludicrous, lunacy. Having said all that, with perhaps the exception of Sam Smiths, who instructed Tennants/Landlords not to tick the relevant box, the blame lays fairly and squarly on the licencees who either couldn't be arsed, or were too thick, to understand the implications of not ticking the box. Maybe L.A's might be peruaded to give licencees an "amnesty", a window, to amend the conditions of their licence now the debate has identified the idiotic nature of the practical application of the Act. I don't think piecemeal interpretation on a case by case basis is a reasonable solution. Perhaps we, as musicians, ought to contest an election or two, possible Tessa "Bare Faced CHEEKS" constituency.