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Planning - Wandsworth Council 'to remove permitted development rights' from its pubs.
With thanks to Stephen Brooker (Walsingham Planning) who reports that the London Borough of Wandsworth is seeking to introduce an Article 4 direction to almost wholly remove permitted development rights for pubs in the Borough. Using the ju...
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New £5 note goes live 13 September 2016
As previously reported – see 'New £5 Note Announced' - a new polymer £5 note will start to be issued on 13 September 2016. A dedicated Bank of England website provides further detail: http://www.thenewfiver.co.uk/ NB - In...
House of Lords - Select Committee on the Licensing Act 2003 - update
Further to our previous news on this Committee ('HofL Licensing Committee - call for evidence issued'), please note that: The deadline for submission of written evidence has now expired – we have already filed a submission of evidence on th...
Gambling - Proposals for Commission fees from April 2017 - final reminder
As previously reported in our article 'Gambling - Proposals for changes to Commission Fees', the Gambling Commission and Department of Culture Media and Sport have previously published a joint consultation on proposed changes to Gambling Fees with...
TV licensing - and the BBC iPlayer - important changes in force today
The law changed today! All viewers who use the iPlayer to watch any BBC programmes must now be covered by a TV licence after new rules which have just come into force. Until now, iPlayer users only needed a licence if they were using the s...
HMG 'invests £40 million and cuts red tape to boost tourism across England'
Last Friday, the Government announced some initiatives it indicated were designed to bolster the tourist trade in England. According to the press release: Towns and cities from across England will benefit from a £40 million fund to deliver...
Scotland - 'Dundee overprovision policy failed to follow the law'
We have previously reported on the controversial overprovision policy adopted by the Dundee Board which determined that the whole Board area was over-provided save for the waterfront area – see our article 'Scotland - Dundee: Overprovis...