This is something I found out whilst researching TENS licenses for the East
As well as the local District Councils, the cops, fire and HMRC, the Maritime and Coastguard Agency has significant input into local licensing policies in some areas (obviously not in Birmingham 😉 – but might also be the case in other areas)
Initially this seemed rather strange but a bit of research shows that in some coastal areas the District Councils jurisdiction ends halfway along the shore with MCGA taking control from that point until the 12km territorial limit of UK sovereignty…
I remember reading somewhere that they even deployed a few units from Yarmouth Coastguard to monitor a rave in the East earlier this summer and even took license numbers of cars present….
