East Devon District Council's casino policy

The background: We had worried about the links between Liatris and terrestrial and online gambling. EDDC had been planning to ban casinos in East Devon but, following a visit by one of its councillors to Bristol (where a Liatris-linked casino was situated, though it has now been sold) he came back and said that he thought that gambling was actually a good thing for a local authority to be involved in. We asked for details about who had financed his trip and where he had been and we were told that it had, in fact, been a family visit and he hadn't actually been INSIDE the casino. Quite how he was then able to speak with authority about gambling we haven't quite worked out.

The Policy: East Devon District Council's Local Policy on Casinos from "Statement of Licensing Policy for the period 31 January 2007 to January 2010", Article 4.1 (although this is mislabelled Article 1.4 in the document), page 17:

East Devon District Council has not passed a "no casino" resolution under Section 166 of the Gambling Act 2005, but it is aware that it has the power to do so".

So that's it - EDDC's casino policy. There is a little more - if they do decide to have a casino, they will have competitive bidding for it, they will await further guidance from the government on licence considerations and they will take the size of the premises into account when deciding on how many betting machines there should be and they will take into account the ability of staff to monitor the use of machines by young persons.