Peter
Pembrokeshire County Council's Draft Licensing Policy states the following.
The Disability Discriminaton Act 1995 introduced measures to tackle
discrimination encountered by disabled people in the areas of employment,
access to goods, facilities and services and the management, buying or
renting of land or property. For example for service providers such as
licencees:
There then follows the usual deadlines ie December 1996, October 1999 and
October2004.
Then......
The Authority will have particular regard to the likely impact of licensing
on disability discrimination when considering the operation and management
of all proposed license applications, renewals and variations of conditions.
Building Regulations approval may be required where certain alterations are
carried out to a building or there is a material change of use to the
building.
It is unfortunate that we are not able to insist that access issues are
addressed as part of the conditions of a license. I believe that Swansea
City Council have been insisting that access issues are addressed in this
way but when the new licensing act comes into force they will no longer be
able to. (You can't enforce one piece of legislation with another).
Hope this is of use......
Alan Hunt
Access Officer
Pembrokeshire County Council
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> From: Peter [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: 23 September 2004 15:34
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> Subject: Accessibility enforcement through new licensing powers
>
> Liverpool City Council is carrying out a public consultation about the way
> that it will enforce licensing under the Licensing Act 2003 (due to come
> into force in the near future - licensing of pubs etc will cease to be
> through magistrates and become a council task).
>
> The document makes only a brief - and in my opinion rather feeble -
> reference to accessibility: "In the context of providing safe and wider
> access to licensed premises for disabled members of the community, the
> Council urges all licensees to familiarise themselves" with the DDA.
>
> I am proposing to draft a reply to the consultation regretting that they
> are
> not emphasising accessibility more strongly, and indeed that they are not
> using the licensing process as a very effective means of ensuring that the
> DDA is considered annually by all licensed premises. (I'm making a
> parallel
> with existing taxi licensing that has ensured that at least all local
> Black
> Cabs carry ramps)
>
> Does anyone else have any experience that will help me in this? For
> example,
> have other councils produced draft policies on this Act (they all have to
> eventually) that are more helpful or more strongly worded? Are any
> proposing
> to use the re-structured licensing powers as a positive tool to help
> enforce accessibility improvements? Or am I barking up a tree which has
> been
> already closed off (apologies for mixed metaphor)?
>
>
>
> Peter Bates
> Research Officer
> Merseyside Disability Federation
> Greenbank College
> Greenbank Lane
> Liverpool L17 1AG
>
> (0151) 291-9570
> (0151) 291-9569 (textphone & fax)
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