Hamish suggested - "Local authorities could transform the opportunities for local live gigs NOW - if they abolished PEL fees and conditions for small-scale gigs in bars and other on-licensed premises. The grant of a PEL allowing informal jazz and folk sessions could be an almost automatic consequence of having obtained a liquor licence."NP>

My point is that we need to find something who can talk the legal talk and walk the legal walk and who can write something authoritative to bolster the case that local councils would be legally entitled to do that. P>

There must be someone out there who knows their way round a law book.