So the first of the proposed new exemptions is too wide. If I as a stroppy solicitor cannot get noise nuisance from the local pub reduced, existing noise controls do not work.

If noise controls in the Environmental Protection Act do not work - perhaps you would agree that it is these which need to be addressed?

And if this is really the case - with the existing measures contained in the Licensing Act - then changing these will make no difference at all, other than to further confuse the situation.

The licensing Act's additional entertainment licensing, should no longer been seen and championed as any way of dealing with noise nuisence. This is plainly the case as the Licensing Act is limited only to possible noise nuisence emanating from entertainment and premises which are granted additional entertainment licensing, are instructed that their entertainments are still subject the Environmental Protection Act. Subjecting them to these measures in the Licensing Act is unecessary and expensive duplication.

As it is required in advance, such measures in the Licensing Act affect all entertainment, whether these would subsequently prove to cause any noise nuisance or not.

Can we please stop perpetuating the myth that the Licensing Act is any way connected with preventing noise nuisence?