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I think as always there are issues with the way the draft legislation is currently drafted, the civil service does need the grafting of
the common sense gene, but leaving this aside, I do think there are merits to
having a night levy and shifting the burden of paying for Policing from the Tax
payer to the user.
The issue though for
Sussex is the lack of Unitary Councils, Brighton would be an obvious case for
introduction, but where there are District, Borough and County government structures you
have issues of Rural and Urban mix, the current draft of the legislation says
that it has to be District or Borough wide, this would penalise Rural Pubs when
you want to keep them going as they are useful social hubs for communities.
I believe there is
scope to introduce them to urban centres based on parish borders, but until the
civil service looks at this with common sense then it will be an experiment
without much practical value. But any elected PCC should be working with government to craft legislation that works for the
Resident, Customer and Proprietor.
Kent & Lincoln university are doing a study on Night Time economy and its affects https://survey.kent.ac.uk/nightlife
ReplyDeleteWhile I agree that anti social behaviour, is unacceptable.
ReplyDeleteI cannot agree with another stealth tax on our local pubs and inns. Would this not see mass closures, and with it job losses.
When we are losing so many of our local pubs, this would be a death nail too far.
Hi Martin, Thanks for your comment,
ReplyDeleteThe Night levy as currently drafted is not useful, what you want is a levy that can be used for a particular area based on the problem, not one that encompasses all the local pubs. There is nothing wrong from shifting the cost of policing from the tax payer to the user of the service which would be reflected in the price paid at the problem establishments. But as currently drafted, the legalisation would cover an entire District or borough which would take in Pubs that were not part of the problem, so until this is changed I would agree with you. I am lobbying to change the Legalisation so it can work parish by parish or ward by ward.
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