Well, I've just sent my views to the CAA. One thing that worried my which reading through the proposal was that althought it would be useful to be able to overly built up areas at 1000ft, this would likely cause even more complaints from the public and even more 'bad-blood' between 'us and them'. With our crap weather it would be a useful change but perhaps not a thing we should do when not absolutley necessary.
who has control, interestingly subparagraph (5)(C) on the same page exempts aircraft from the 1000m from a gathering rule when 'practising approaches to, or checking navigational aids or procedures at, a Government aerodrome or licensed aerodrome' So, basically you can do practice approaches to a go-around over the market all day but can't actually land. Mad or what?