Labour councillor Nicky Brennan said for some residents who may have sensory sensitivities, noise levels that were too loud could “cause increased anxiety, stress and mental fatigue”.<\/p>\n
Conservative councillor Ewan Mackey said businesses in the city centre were “equally important” as residents.<\/p>\n
But Liberal Democrat Deborah Harries said: “Does Birmingham really want to be a city culturally that is [\u2026] not really interested in doing anything to protect its musical heritage in terms of The Crown [pub] and Station Street and bans the busker?<\/p>\n
“There must be better ways than this absolute hammer to crack a nut.”<\/p>\n
The council’s deputy leader, Labour’s Sharon Thompson, said it was not true nothing was being done with regards to the pub known as the birthplace of Black Sabbath.<\/p>\n
Thompson said she knew “we are doing things around Station Street”.<\/p>\n
Several businesses backed the PSPO plan with some telling how city centre busking was taking a toll on workers and driving away customers.<\/p>\n
A number of buskers said compromises could be reached, with one suggesting the council adopted a model similar to that of Busk in London with respect to basic licensing.<\/p>\n
But council director of regulation and enforcement Sajeela Naseer said London had a “specific piece of legislation”.<\/p>\n
Cabinet members approved the declaration of the PSPO and that officers should explore the feasibility of a ‘consent\/permitting scheme’ for city centre busking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Labour councillor Nicky Brennan said for some residents who may have sensory sensitivities, noise levels that were too…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":287240,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-287239","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}