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Evening Standard
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Jordan King

Covent Garden: Westminster Council to let public help decide on new rules for buskers

A public consultation will be launched to help Westminster council decide whether and how to regulate street performers in Covent Garden.

Councillors met on Tuesday evening to discuss how to make sure performers comply with a licencing system which came into effect in 2021. The regime has been boycotted by 100 members of the Covent Garden Street Performers Association (CGSPA) who say they are being driven off the streets by red tape.

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