LIB DEMS AIM TO TIGHTEN UP LAW ON TEMPORARY EVENT NOTICES
LIB DEMS AIM TO TIGHTEN UP LAW ON TEMPORARY EVENT NOTICES
- White, 10/02/09
Chris White, Liberal Democrat Spokesperson on licensing at the Local Government Association, has welcomed moves by Liberal Democrat MP Paul Holmes to tighten up licensing laws.
Chris White said: ‘One of the worst aspects of the 2003 licensing reforms is the Temporary Event Notice (TEN), under which licensing conditions can effectively be set aside 12 times a year, simply at the behest of the licensee.
‘This has led to complaints across the country about noise and disturbance. Currently only the police can object when a licensee issues a TEN, within a very narrow window of time. Paul Holmes’s amendment would ensure that councils and councillors could also object and so bring TENs back under the control of the local licensing authority.’
The Local Government Association has been criticising the lack of council and councillor involvement in TENs for some time.
Paul Holmes added: "We are fighting in the Bill to try and reverse the flow of Government policy, which is to constantly seek more and more power for Central Government to be able to dictate and micro manage what Local Authorities can do.”
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