While researching case histories of pubs with licensing problems, one thing is becoming clear. That is, the recent trend is for Council licensing officers is to issue 'Pre-emptive Noise Abatement Orders'.
That means live music can be stopped or an event can be cancelled for ...causing too much noise before it has actually happened, because a licensing officer thinks it might cause a noise problem.
Worse still these officers are not using sound measuring equipment to measure excessive deci-bells. They are relying on their ears.
It is essential this new co-alition take steps to curb the tyranny maintained by local authority licensing departments.