Mr. Ray Yeates:

As I said in my presentation, after 11 p.m., I do not think we have a vibrant night scene at all. I think there is a lot of opportunity here. That is why I would be careful about how we go about it. If there is great potential for something, we must be careful about how it is set up. As somebody who has run many events and whose background is in venue management, I was not at all saying that people who run events and venues do not have to deal with all of these objections and difficulties. I was talking about the area of policy formulation. The first thing one has to deal with is many clichéd responses about alcohol, public order and other matters that people spoke about. We are still in the early days in the development of this policy. There is much socialisation to be done with people outside of the culture area. Most of my job involves talking about the arts with people outside the arts. People feel it is quite exclusive and that they do not get access to the arts. It takes a while to socialise an idea such as opening up the city until 3 a.m. or 6 a.m. It will take quite a lot of time and understanding on the part of all the stakeholders. That is what I was talking about. The council would be quite involved in dealing with that communication.