Special Entertainment Precinct Success Grows
The ALMBC welcomes the news that the NSW Enmore Road Special Entertainment Precinct has proved very successful, with 83% support among locals and other councils across NSW anticipated to undertake similar reforms.
Queensland’s Fortitude Valley was the first location to gain the status of Special Entertainment Precinct in the Country, nearly twenty years ago.
Since then, a number of state and local governments across the country have implemented similar arrangements.
SEPs generally enable later trading hours, higher noise levels, place restrictions on developer for noise mitigation, reduce the likelihood of noise complaints shutting venues, streamline noise complaints, among many other benefits to live music businesses.
Full NSW Government press release here.