Plans to hike licence fees, clampdown on Temporary Event Notices (TENs) and scrap Alcohol Disorder Zones (ADZs) are included in the coalition's bid to tear-up the licensing regime.
Full details of the Home Office consultation are being unveiled today – and appear to go well beyond what the government had previously announced.
Licence fees will be increased, the plans say, so councils can "cover costs linked to enforcement, leaving premises to pay rather than the local taxpayer".