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This 29 page paper looks at the impact that the Licensing Act 2003 has had on local authorities in the UK. On the 6th of August 2005 the Licensing Act 2003 came into force. This was the act that modernised six different licensing regimes and put them into the control of the local authorities, such as local councils. The changes were argued as being good for business saving the industry a great deal in fees for different licence applications and creating bureaucratic efficiency. The process has empowered local authorities to take more control over their environment as well as giving other stakeholders a greater say in the way licences are granted. The impact on local authorities may have been to empower them, but it has also increased the functions they need to perform and the linked financial impact. For smaller areas the fees are covering or exceeding the costs, but in areas such as London, the revenues are not covering the costs and the result in large shortfalls for the local authorities which have a knock on effect. There are also some indirect impacts such as increased policing costs. Overall, the local authorities have seen many changes, and if the cost issue can be resolved these look to be for the betterment of the local environments. The bibliography cites 30 sources.
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put them into the control of the local authorities. The changes were argued as being good for business saving the industry a great deal in fees for different licence applications
and creating bureaucratic efficiency. The process has empowered local authorities to take more control over their environment as well as giving other stakeholders a greater say in the way licences
are granted. The impact on local authorities may have been to empower them, but it has also increased the functions they need to perform and the linked financial impact. For
smaller areas the fees are covering or exceeding the costs, but in areas such as London, the revenues are not covering the costs and the result in large shortfalls for
the local authorities which have a knock on effect. There are also some indirect impacts such as increased policing costs. Overall, the local authorities have seen many changes, and if
the cost issue can be resolved these look to be for the betterment of the local environments. Table of Contents 1. Introduction 3 2. The Licensing Act
2003 5 3. Local Authorities and Meeting the Gaols of the Act 9 3.1 Social Pressures to Drink 9 3.2 Developing and Publishing Policy Statements 13 3.2.1 Proactive Policy Management for Local Authorities 14 3.3 Administrative Burden 16 3.3.1 The Initial Applications 16
3.4 The Ongoing Burden and Financial Impact 20 3.4.1 Positive Financial Outcomes 20 3.4.2 Negative Financial Impacts 22 3.4.3 The Calls for Change 28 4. Conclusion 29 References 30
1. Introduction Societies have, form many millennia, realised that for the pubic good there is the need to control the way in which premises
that sell alcohol are controlled. One of the first examples of this was in 2300 BCE1 when the King of Babylon introduced the equivalent of licensing measures with controls on
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