Council stubs out planned ban on smoking outside pubs

Council stubs out planned ban on smoking outside pubs

BARNSLEY Council has backed down from its plans to make the town the first in the country to ban smoking on pavements outside pubs and cafés.

After talks with representatives of the pub trade it yesterday dropped its hardline stance and issued a statement saying it would be left up to individual venues to decide whether they wanted to operate a voluntary ban.

Landlords and café owners had faced having their £250-a-year licences to allow drinking on street pavements revoked if customers lit up outside their premises. Smoking in beer gardens would still have been permitted.

The proposals, which could have been introduced in April, had prompted a hostile response from licensees, who have already complained of a drop in trade since the ban on smoking in enclosed spaces was brought in last year.

Paul McNicholas, chairman of the town centre Pubwatch scheme, had threatened to go to court to challenge their legality.

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Give it time.

Do your best to convince people not to WANT to smoke, but just because you're losing that fight or because it's not happening as fast as you want shouldn't be justification to use the law to force YOUR opinion!

place to try and force people living in subsidized housing to quit smoking in their homes. Said they wouldn't allow their workers to make home visits if anyone smoked in the house - not just when they were there, but ever. If anyone smoked at all in the home.

Don't know if that passed.