UK Clubland’s Existential Licensing Crisis
“A good example is what happened with the ID scanner. We were in situations where we had to have it on from 7pm on a Friday: that was mandatory.
And it would be playing up, and the police would be there going, ‘Well, we might have to go to a licensing review’.” (Guardian)
UK Night Time Industries Association chief Alan Miller describes one of the ‘ever-more stringent licensing rules’ which forced him to close Brick Lane’s Vibe Bar (and pose an existential threat to the rest of British nightlife according to the Guardian).
click to access Night Time Industries Association site
