John King comments: Warwick District Council bans live music and another venue is put out of business.
This venue did not have any permission to make noise pollution - so why are environmental officers asking for permission for its live music permission to be removed, as a solution to what they claim to be noise pollution?
For now, any form of non-amplfied live Regulated Entertainment, which would not cause any noise pollution, is also prevented.
If the live music in question was not licensable or was exempt - this course of action (of getting the licensing staff to do their work for them) would not be open to them.
Is the claim being made that the environmental officers do not have effective noise pollution controls in other existing legislation and have to use the Licensing Act to deal with noise pollution, in this clumsy and unfocused way?