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The local pub and social club are also hubs of community life. Reform business rates, creating a fairer system where rates are based on site values rather than rental values. Scrap Thresholds and use a sliding scale of relief.
The local pub and social club are also hubs of community life. Reform business rates, creating a fairer system where rates are based on site values rather than rental values. Scrap Thresholds and use a sliding scale of relief.
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The local pub and social club are also hubs of community life. Reform business rates, creating a fairer system where rates are based on site values rather than rental values. Scrap Thresholds and use a sliding scale of relief.
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Pub Protection There will be greater protection for the local Reform business rates, creating a fairer system Make small business rate relief automatic and Rate Relief institutions people value, like local post offices where rates are based on site values rather than and pubs. rental values and are the responsibility of local Reducing small company corporation tax from authorities. 21p and 20p The local pub and social club are also hubs of community life. We will make small company relief automatic Endorse the measures in John Healey’s 12 point and also seek to ensure that the burden is plan to support pubs Ensure fairness for food producers through EU spread more equitably between small and large reform and a Supermarkets Ombudsman; and businesses. support post offices, shops and pubs in rural communities. No Increases in Beer Duty (DFMA)
We all have a responsibility to look after our Councils given powers to grant 50% relief for the own health, supported by our family and our last pub in the village (DFMA) employer. The ban on smoking in public places will be maintained. Scrap Thresholds and use a sliding scale of relief (DFMA)
Smoking Ban ‐ No extension to doorways (DFMA)
Local Planning Restrictive covenants applied by pub companies Ban on restrictive covenants on pubs being Nothing underlines the powerlessness that Law and to property sales will be curbed sold(DFMA) many communities feel more than the loss of Community essential services, like post offices and pubs, Ownership Too many pubs have closed that could have No pub would be demolished without public because of decisions made by distant been sustained by local people. We will support consultation(DFMA) bureaucrats. Our new ‘community right to buy’ pubs that have a viable future with a new fund scheme will give local people the power to for community ownership in 2010‐11. Implement the Sustainable Communities Act protect any community assets that are Amendment Bill, which gives local communities threatened with closure. We will promote the use of community shares the right to propose actions in their area to that support investment in football clubs, pubs, improve sustainability. We will implement fully the Sustainable renewable energy and shops. Communities Act, and reintroduce the Require a local competition test for all planning Sustainable Communities Act (Amendment) Councils must take full account of the applications for new retail developments and Bill as government legislation, to give people importance of pubs to the local community establish a local competition office within the greater information on, and control over, what 1
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when assessing proposals that change their use, Office of Fair Trading to investigate anti‐ is being spent by each government agency in
and we will make it more difficult to demolish competitive practices at a local and regional their area. pubs. level. A Conservative government will introduce a We will continue to encourage and support new ‘open source’ planning system. This will imaginative solutions in rural communities to the mean that people in each neighbourhood will provision of locally owned services. be able to specify what kind of development they want to see in their area. These neighbourhood plans will be consolidated into a local plan.
Abolish the power of planning inspectors to rewrite local plans. Amend the ‘Use Classes Order’ so that people can use buildings for any purpose allowed in the local plan. Limit appeals against local planning decisions to cases that involve abuse of process or failure to apply the local plan.
Encouraging To tackle the binge drinking which can leave Reduce the ill health and crime caused by Ban off‐licences and supermarkets from selling Responsible people reluctant to venture into town centres at excessive drinking. We support a ban on below‐ alcohol below cost price Drinking night, we have banned irresponsible promotions cost selling, and are in favour of the principle of and strengthened police and council powers to minimum pricing, subject to detailed work to Use the tax system to target binge drinking close down rowdy pubs and clubs, cracking down establish how it could be used in tackling whilst ensuring that responsible drinkers and on under‐age and public drinking. We have problems of irresponsible drinking. the traditional British pub are not unfairly brought in a right to petition local authorities to penalised (SGBP) end 24‐hour licensing where problems arise. We will also review the complex, ill‐thought‐ through system of taxation for alcohol to ensure Raise taxes on those drinks linked to antisocial it tackles binge drinking without unfairly drinking, while abolishing Labour’s new ‘cider penalising responsible drinkers, pubs and tax’ on ordinary drinkers important local industries.
Licensing Flexibility for pubs to provide related services Cut red tape for putting on live music. We will We will overhaul the Licensing Act to give local promoted, making it easier to have live reintroduce the rule allowing two performers of authorities and the police much stronger 2
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entertainment without a licence. unamplified music in any licensed premises powers to remove licences from, or refuse to
without the need for an entertainment licence, grant licences to, any premises that are It is currently proposed that events would be allow licensed venues for up to 200 people to causing problems exempt if they are provided for an audience of host live music without the need for an 100 people or fewer. The new exemption will entertainment licence, and remove the Allow councils and the police to shut down allow community pubs, which have not already requirement for schools and hospitals to apply permanently any shop or bar found done so, to diversify by providing live music to for a licence. persistently selling alcohol to children small audiences without having to apply for a Double the maximum fine for under‐age costly variation of their licenses. (JH12) alcohol sales to £20,000
Permit local councils to charge more for late‐ night licences to pay for additional policing.
Beer Tie A non‐tie option should be available for pub New laws that would allow tenants to opt out of Would consult upon the introduction of a tenants; we will act if the industry fails to make tie. (DFMA) statutory code if the industry fails to initiate self progress on this. regulation Pubs would be allowed at least one guest The code of practice should offer a guest beer beer(DFMA) Support provision of a guest beer right to option for those tenants that opt for a beer tie restore some of the ties benefits to long (JH12) suffering landlords
The Conservative Party support the idea that should the industry fail to deliver self‐regulation by June 2011, the government of the day should end up consulting on putting the code of practice on a statutory basis. The government have agreed to this and we are happy with this position. (DCP)
Key Bold Text – Indicates Manifesto Commitment Additional information based on our interpretation of party policy including from the following sources: JH12 – John Healey’s Reform Package – announced in March DFMA – Don Foster, Morning Advertiser Article – available online at http://www.morningadvertiser.co.uk/news.ma/article/86186. SGBP – Conservative Save the Great British Pub Campaign – available online at http://www.conservatives.com/Campaigns/Save_the_Great_British_Pub.aspx. DCP – Statement from David Cameron’s Office to the Publican – available online at http://www.thepublican.com/story.asp?sectioncode=7&storycode=66833&c=3 3