Pfft we always have Start clearance required for circuits on the ATIS over here
Whatever you do, don't ignore the other aircraft. You still have to follow them if you are sequenced that way, however you don't have to fly out as wide as them. You can slow down or even request to make number one to them.
It makes it exciting in the tower if you just cut them off somewhere because they were too wide, especially when there is 10 in the circuit.