I wonder who the anonymous 'key members' of Waveney Council are and what members of the public they consulted before speaking on behalf of all of them in this submission?

The '100 max audience limit' raises several key issues including (a) how is the 'individual on merit' and 'in the vicinity' emphasis of the Act being supported by an exclusion of this nature which gives no assessment of the premises build, locality, complaint history or control measures?; (b) setting a 100 capacity is arbitrary as it is often the location of the venue that is the critical factor and there is no consideration for the nature/style of the live music - clearly in a residential or noise sensitive area unamplified folk music by two performers until 11pm is going to be very low risk when compared to a drum 'n' bass or rock band activity in the same venue and with a same sized audience.

The above sounds reasonable until you realise that whoever wrote it, offers no solution and is still quite happy for the unamplified folk music, which they accept to be low risk, to continue to be subject to exactly the same licensing requirement as if it were drum 'n' bass or rock band activity in the same venue and with a same sized audience.

They also ignore completly the fact that existing Environmental legislation will still deal with any actual noise, from any source and that this would be their own advice to the premises should they manage to licence any of these activities.