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Enforcement balance at sporting events


How enforcers can help to create balance at major events like Birmingham 2022

Paul Evans

Posted 23 May 2018 | JoTS Online


Content Tags:  Analysis|Academic Research|West Midlands


ANALYSIS: As Birmingham 2022 approached, questions over security, trading restrictions and public space highlighted the difficult balance between protecting major sporting events and ensuring host communities and local businesses share in their benefits.

Major sporting events pose extraordinary challenges for managers tasked with navigating complex, legal and regulatory frameworks demanded by event owners. Of course, the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games will be no different. Across this short article we focus on two key interrelated types of regulation: i) spatial and security planning, and ii) advertising and trade, and specifically, how Gam...

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