The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #126147   Message #3065469
Posted By: Richard Bridge
02-Jan-11 - 07:10 AM
Thread Name: Licensing consultation announced!
Subject: RE: Licensing consultation announced!
No. In the first place you focus on noise only, and not other matters.

Second, even if one looks at noise alone it is precisely because noise control is a messy issue under the laws of private or public nuisance or under the law relating to environmental health that it can only be left to those laws where enforcement is unlikely to be necessary. Where, as with electric music, noise abatement is routine and a constant concern, and indeed conduct is a frequent concomitant issue as with recorded music (have you EVER stood outside a nightclub like Aaron Stone's Casino in Rochester and watched the blood run in the drains?) a sensibly drawn Licensing Act should apply.

The drafting of this act is appalling. It applies to many things to which it should not apply - but control of electric music is necessary.