Live Music Venues and agent of change bill next year

Bridgehouse

Was listening to John Spellar MP on Front Row (radio 4) last night. 

He is doing a private members bill next year to get the law changed to make developers the agent of change when building houses near live music venues.

This means that the developers will have to pay for sound proofing rather than the burden falling on the venue as it does now.

https://www.iq-mag.net/2017/10/venues-day-john-spellar-push-agent-change/#.WjEjOoWnyaM

Most interesting was was listening to him arguing with some bloke who represented the house builders association. He basically ripped him a new one. Good man. He seems like a proper conviction politician.

Phil_aka_Pip

Bridgehouse said:

He seems like a proper conviction politician.

For now. Give him a few years and he'll be like all the rest.

Bridgehouse

Phil_aka_Pip said:

Bridgehouse said:

He seems like a proper conviction politician.

For now. Give him a few years and he'll be like all the rest.

Possibly. But he did seem to be genuinely passionate about live music. 

Fretwired

Phil_aka_Pip said:

Bridgehouse said:

He seems like a proper conviction politician.

For now. Give him a few years and he'll be like all the rest.

I doubt it .. he's 70 years old now and first got into parliament in 1982 ... :-)

Phil_aka_Pip

Fretwired said:

I doubt it .. he's 70 years old now and first got into parliament in 1982 ... :-)

So he's still got another 25 years ahead of him coining it in the Lords if he plays his cards right.

Fretwired

Phil_aka_Pip said:

Fretwired said:

I doubt it .. he's 70 years old now and first got into parliament in 1982 ... :-)

So he's still got another 25 years ahead of him coining it in the Lords if he plays his cards right.

Unlikely as Bruce Forsyth is dead .. ;-)

Spellar is a Labour MP and anti-the House of Lords so I doubt it.

Phil_aka_Pip

Fretwired said:

Spellar is a Labour MP and anti-the House of Lords so I doubt it.

They all have their price

thecolourbox

He is the MP for the constituency I grew up in, even the Tories vote for him there