From thisiskent.co.uk/sevenoaks, the secretary of the Underriver village association has complained about the red tape ininvolved in applying for Temporary Event Notices for her association’s charity events.
“You have to pay £21 each time but the form filling and posting is ridiculous when you are just volunteers.”
She said six pages of information have to be filled in, but because she has to keep one copy and send others to the council and police, it means 24 sheets of paper have to be printed each time she applies.
“They have given us an alternative but they have sent lots of paper out as an alternative – 33 pages – and I don’t even understand what it says,” Mrs Jordan said.
“You have to be a lawyer to understand it.”
A common and completely understandable complaint.
It seems Michael Fallon MP brought this issue up during the Queen’s Speech debate at the Houses of Commons a couple of weeks ago, saying:
It’s ludicrous, having to fill in so many pages and then not being able to submit them online
Something I agree with entirely.
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