I am currently involved in local research into the effects of the new smoking ban on drinking establishments. I am concerned that it forces customers onto the pavements, causing a potential noise nuisance late at night.
You can find out more by visiting my informal blog, where you can also vote on the subject or even leave a comment.
6 comments:
Why not a town centre smoking ban with the same boundary as the street drinking ban?
Interesting idea but the word sledgehammer comes to mind, David
Peter Gabriel - 1986.
Have you got a better idea? Sorry, I'll rephrase that: have you got an idea at all?
It depends what the purpose of the idea is David. Yours seems to be to keep smokers both out of pubs and off the streets, which would surely be difficult (to say the least) to enforce. Mine is for licensing decisions to take account of the reality of the situation within the local context.
Paul - that solution would penalize the non-smoking drinker and doesn't seem fair. The moderate drinker isn't harming anyone, including themselves, but the smoker is.
Paul
I more then likely didn't make myself clear as to letting the safer neighbourhood team know about issues that are affecting the community. It wasn't just aimed at the Queens Head, but I think that was the Catalyst which bought home to me a wider issue.
Basically people think we know what the issues are, sometimes we do and even then we are not fully aware of the extent of them.
All I am asking the community (who are also our partners) to do is to let us know even if it’s only for our information what troubles them. Sometimes these issues are beyond our control but by letting us know it allows us to identify a problem and tackle it at an early stage. Obviously not all the issues are police matters but the whole point of Safer Neighbourhood Teams is that we work in partnership with other agencies who's problem it may be. There also needs to be a realisation that there are not always quick fixes and that things do take some time to solve but as long as we get a long term solution which is acceptable to all then I believe that it has all been worth while and hopefully will make the neighbourhood a safer and pleasant area to live, work and visit.
I do thank you for putting my comments on your blog as what I want to do is to interact with the community and hear what their issues are and the more ways that I can do it the happy I am
Regards
Steve (Henthorn)
1st blog entry and most probably the last one ever but I did feel it was important to get this point across even if I'm at home and facing the though of having to watch the X factor!!!!!!!!!
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