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Why We’re Backing Our Pubs but Will Fight Plans to Scrap Licensing Application Notices - Liverpool Echo
The proposal aims to modernize licensing laws by removing print notice requirements, despite concerns that local newspapers remain the main source for public notices, OnePoll found.
- On October 9 Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and Business Secretary Peter Kyle launched a consultation proposing to remove the statutory duty to publish public notices on alcohol licensing in printed local newspapers in England.
- The Government’s Licensing Taskforce recommended removing the print publication requirement after reviewing the Licensing Act 2003, with membership dominated by hospitality and night-time sector representatives and no media representation.
- Industry leaders warn the News Media Association said the changes would reduce transparency and harm communities, with the Liverpool Echo and MyLondon opposing the plans and calling notices a lifeline.
- Campaigners warn digital exclusion means removing print notices would disproportionately affect people without internet access, with a House of Lords report noting around 10.2 million adults cannot complete all eight foundation tasks.
- Further changes in Westminster could mean the English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill removes local authority governance notices, while the newspaper industry campaign urges ministers to abandon the plan.
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Knutsford Guardian+6 Reposted by 6 other sources
Changes to alcohol licensing notices are 'direct attack on public right to know'
PLANS to scrap laws requiring alcohol licensing notices and changes to local authority governance arrangements to be published in printed local…
·Wilmslow, United Kingdom
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Swindon Advertiser+2 Reposted by 2 other sources
Plan to scrap public notices in local newspapers branded 'threat to transparency'
Proposals to scrap the requirement for certain public notices to be published in print have been criticised as a threat to transparency.
·Swindon, United Kingdom
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