That was the point I was making.

You are dealing with the livihoods of licensees here.

Please ensure that your premises are PEL'd before risking making the activty public. That is the only certain way to ensure that they are safe. There are no other options.

For if a malicous complaint is made about an unlicensed session (and there very well may be one from a jealous PEL paying licensee), even your council will claim they have no choice but to prevent it.

But there is still nothing wrong with asking the hypothetical question of your council. There may even be a chance that this council will enable these events without a PEL.

If so we really need to know, as this may just prevent a good soul from prosecution and enable many activities currently unde threat.

One council being praised for just pretending not to see a problem, is not a lot of help for all the other good folkies who were/are not so fortunate and are being told that the law allows their council no option.

It would be usful to know the answer and until we do get it, perhaps the good folkies of Hull should just count their blessings and keep quiet?