No-one's quashing it but it may simply be fading. There still seem plenty of large public events but far fewer back garden ones, as fewer shops sell fireworks and they are expensive.
There were some very loud rockets somewhere near me earlier this evening (Sunday), and a few 'whizz-bangs' yesterday and on Friday, but certainly not as many as in past years.
Just as I typed that I heard another!
'
I used to know of a public bonfire night in a village in Somerset, and visited it a few times with friends living in the area. It had a huge fire, professional fireworks, refreshments (but not alcohol sales), the lot. It started to attract a lot of people from quite a radius but with little problem apart from some local traffic congestion and some danger to pedestrians walking along the unlit roads in the area.
Then Somerset Police appointed a new Chief Constable. He, intent on showing his authority, immediately started clamping down on all sorts of communal events. He did not seek to ban them (he had no power for that) but wanted tickets-only and other things just not possible for small village-hall committees to apply, so the organisers could only close the annual Fireworks night down.
This was the same Chief Constable who tried to make life very difficult for the Carnival Clubs that tour Bridgewater, Wells and a few other towns in that region at this time of year, but they were strong enough to oppose, put up with or even work with, this bureaucrat.
