Richard, I sympathise with your difficulties re. the current unsatisfactory implementation of the 'noise nuisance' laws (whatever they're officially called), but these are the laws you/we should be trying to get changed, to make it easier for people like you who suffer because of antisocial loud noise at night (etc.) to get it stopped. I agree that the way the current laws operate is a mess, and very difficult for people like you to get anything changed. I know from my own experience and that of others how difficult it is to get the required evidence (recordings, etc.) before the authorities will actually do anything to stop the problem.

But this is a different issue from the licencing of music, IMO. I'm not sure it's helpful to confuse them. (It's possible that maybe it is helpful to tackle the two issues together, but I've yet to be convinced of that).