A draft busking policy is up for debate at this week’s Byron Council meeting, with staff recommending in the agenda that the policy should require street performers to prove they have a $20M public liability insurance policy.
Dylan Johnstone, Development Investigations Lead, also recommends that councillors support the ‘Requirement for buskers to submit a passport-sized identification photograph when making application for a permit, and to display the photograph while busking, so that authorised officers are able to identify that the person busking is the holder of a permit’.
His long list of recommendations to the policy also includes regulating busking to specified hours and at designated sites, and ‘clear conditions that busking must not be repetitive in nature and must not result in offensive noise’.
A ‘requirement for a busking group to be limited to a maximum of four performers’ is also recommended by Johnstone.
The policy will be tabled by councillors before a vote. If adopted, it will go before the public for exhibition.
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