Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Pavement Dining | |
Posted by: | Paul Corcoran | |
Date/Time: | 17/01/17 11:18:00 |
No sure I feel comfortable with the suggestion that people should lose their jobs but it is an inevitable consequence of a direct link being made with the cost of running the department and the level of fees being levied. Businesses have a right to ask questions about the efficiency of a department if they are effectively being asked to fund it. It would be interesting to do a Freedom of Information request to see how many complaints were made about pavement trading in recent years. It doesn't strike me as something the public are particularly concerned about so the level of enforcement may be disproportionate. Better that staff were transferred to other enforcement areas that are of concern like litter and breaches of advertising regulations. |