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Council |
Council Licensing Fees & Restrictions |
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Aylesbury |
News 23rd July 2011: Lap Dancing Fees
Aylesbury has set an annual licence fee of
£2,200. This is discounted to
£600 for uncontested renewals.
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Basingstoke |
News 8th May 2012: Nil Policy
Basingstoke wanted a general nil policy. They were advised that
this would be illegal and so have adapted the plan to be a nil
policy in the town centre and nearly impossibly restrictive rules
outside of the town centre. The plan will be open to public comment
in June 2012.
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Blackpool |
News 18th October 2011: Lap Dancing Restrictions
After a 6 month study it looks likely that Blackpool will
consider 4 as the maximum number of lap dancing venue. But all
applications will be considered on their individual merits. There
are currently 7 clubs operating in Blackpool.
Venues will also have to comply with miserable rules. Nudity will
continue to be banned while customers must sit down throughout
performances and will be forbidden from touching dancers. Clubs will
have to adhere to a total of 47 licensing conditions which also
include strict controls on publicising premises.
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Bournemouth |
News 16th April 2011: Lap Dancing Fees
Bournemouth has granted all it's lap dancing clubs new licenses
while raising the annual fee from £150 to £7,000.
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Cambridge |
News 6th July 2011: Nil Policy
Cambridge Council is moving for a 'nil policy' on adult
entertainment. Repressive rules have forced the existing club to not
reapply for a licence.
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Coventry |
News 9th August 2011: Room for 4
Coventry looks set to limit lap dancing clubs to 4.
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Gloucester |
News 12th May 2011: Lap Dancing Licensing
Gloucester has opted out of the optional licensing scheme for lap
dancing clubs and licences will be granted similarly to any other
licensed premises
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Hartlepool Borough Council |
News 4th April 2011: Lap Dancing Fees
Officers also discussed proposed new licensing requirements for
premises that offer “sexual entertainment”.
If councillors do introduce the new controls, at a meeting of the
next full council, then there would be a fee for any premises
applying for a Sex Entertainment Venue (SEV).
The proposed fee structure for a new application is either £500
or £850, depending on the rateable value of the premises, while a
renewal application would range between £100 and £450.
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Hillingdon |
News 16th April 2011: Lap Dancing and Sex Shop Fees
Licence fee set to £2,300
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Leeds |
News 16th April 2011: Lap Dancing and Sex Shop Fees
Leeds has reduced it's fee from £3,271 to £2,300 after
petitioning from a sex shop chain.
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Leicester |
News 2nd January 2011: 3 clubs closed
Leicester morality council decided that 3 clubs should be closed
whilst leaving 2 to continue operating.
News 24th July 2011: 5
Leicester city mayor Sir Peter Soulsby and his cabinet colleagues
are expected to agree a limit of five lap dancing clubs in the city.
There are currently five adult entertainment venues in the city.
Each club will be required to get a
£6,000 licence to operate. These will be granted to venues
that meet strict restrictions to ensure not too much fun.
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London: Bexley |
News 26th May 2011: Lap Dancing Restrictions
A spokesperson for Bexley council said: Bexley has decided at
present not to have a policy. Setting a nil policy does not prevent
applications being made or authorities having to consider such
applications.
On March 29th 2011 Bexley Council dropped the price of a sex
establishment licence from £22,537
to £8,995 after they carried out
a study into licence charges. The EU Services Directive which came
into affect on December 28, 2009, requires that councils only charge
for the admin cost of the licence and the required inspections and
not the enforcement work carried out on unlicensed businesses.
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London: Camden |
News 5th August 2011: Nil Policy
Camden is proposing a nil policy for new lap dancing venues, sex
shops and sex cinemas.
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London: City of London |
News January 2012: Nil Policy
The City of London has capped its quotas for new clubs at zero,
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London: Enfield |
News 2nd December 2011: Nil Policy
Strip shows, lapdancing and pole dancing are to be banned by a
council, even though there is not a single adult entertainment venue
or sex shop in the borough.
Launching its campaign under the slogan of No Sex please,
we're Enfield, the borough council is adamant it wants to
continue to provide a haven for fair-minded people.
Chris Bond, cabinet member for the environment, said: We have
no sex establishments in Enfield and that's the way we want to keep
it.
Residents are now being nominally asked for their views.
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London: Greenwich |
News 26th May 2011: Licence Fees
A sex shop licence costs £20,360
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London: Hackney |
News 2011: Nil Policy
Started off proposing a 'nil policy' for lap dancing and sex
shops. After effective opposition from the Shoreditch strip pubs,
the policy was changed to 'nil new businesses', but existing
businesses are to be allowed to remain.
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London: Hammersmith |
News February 2012: Licence Fees
Hammersmith's annual licence renewal fee is nearly
£17,000
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London: Haringey |
News January 2012: Nil Policy
Haringey has capped its quotas for new clubs at zero,
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London: Islington |
News January 2012: Nil Policy
Islington is looking to set its quota for new clubs at zero. (But
is appears that gay clubs are somehow excused from the 'nil'
policy).
Licences cost
£14,000
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London: Richmond |
News January 2012: Nil Policy
Richmond is looking to set its quota for new clubs at zero and is
considering the fate of the one existing business in the area.
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London: Tower Hamlets |
News October 2011: Nil Policy
Another borough going through the process of imposing a 'nil
policy' towards adult businesses via a token public 'consultation'.
The council is keen to close the 11 clubs currently operating in the
borough.
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London: Westminster |
News 7th January 2012: Licence Fees
A sex shop licence costs £29,102.
Adult retailers are seeking a Judicial Review as councils are
supposed to only charge costs incurred, not use the fee as a revenue
earner.
In a bid to restrict the number of sex shops in Soho, the council
has limited the number of licences issued to venues in the area to
just 16 at any given time.
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Newcastle |
News January 2012: 15 clubs to lose strippers
Newcastle has set a maximum limit of 5 clubs leaving 15 part time
clubs foundering
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Northumberland |
News 20th July 2011: Sex Shop Fees
Although no such venues are currently in the county, councillors
are keen to maintain this, as they set in place a new licensing
policy. At a recent full council meeting, members at Northumberland
County Council backed proposals for a licence fee of
£6,500, including a
non-refundable administration fee of £1,500.
They were told that the fee was based on what nearby local
authorities were charging and set to dissuade people from opening
any establishments in Northumberland.
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Nottingham |
News 17th March 2012 : Extortionate Fees
The closure of the Adult Gift Shop was attributed to an
extortionate increase in licence fees to £11,000.
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Plymouth |
News 8th February 2012: Miserable Plymouth
Plymouth Council has approved the policy that only one sex shop
or cinema and two lap dancing venues will be allowed in Union
Street. The city centre will be allowed just one sex shop and no lap
dancing venues. All other parts of the city will be generally
considered out of bounds but any application will be considered on
their merits.
A one-year licence will cost £3,900,
and the annual renewal fee will be £3,200.
The policy will apply from March 2012.
News 9th August 2011: Room for 3
Plymouth is looking to set a maximum of 3 lap dancing clubs
paying £3,200 each
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Portsmouth |
News 2nd March 2012: Miserable Portsmouth
Portsmouth Council have proposed a repressive policy banning any
new strip pubs, lap dancing clubs or sex shops.
See
Council Consultation Details from
portsmouth.gov.uk
See
Consultation Document [pdf] from
portsmouth.gov.uk
The proposal is now open for a six-week consultation. To share
your views email licensing@portsmouthcc.gov.uk by April 12 2012.
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Sheffield |
News 10th April 2011: Lap Dancing Policy and
Licence Fees
Sex entertainment venues in Sheffield are angry about planned new
charges and conditions set to be imposed by the council. Licence
charges will be set to £1,335
per venue, annual renewal fees of £1,000,
and levies of £1,000 to
vary licences or £500 to
transfer them.
Julian Skeens, lawyer for Spearmint Rhino which has a lap dancing
club on Brown Street, criticised a clause allowing advertising
within 440 yards of a venue with council permission - but forbidding
advertising elsewhere in the city: This would appear to be a
severe restraint on trade as it would cover magazine and newspaper
adverts, even within a national publication.
And Scores lap dancing club on Charter Square said whilst the
council's fees were acceptable, conditions such as a
requirement to have a register containing personal details of staff,
and a signing-in book for workers open for inspection by police and
council officials, appear to propagate a fictional and untrue
image of the industry as a criminal and dishonest business.
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Shropshire |
News 14th January 2012: Proposed Licence
Fee Increase
The proposals include raising the cost of sex shop licences by £500,
from £2,025 to £2,531.
The cost of a licence was just £1,350
in the 2010/11 financial year.
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Torbay |
News 10th April 2011: Lap Dancing Policy and
Licence Fees
Torbay could have two lap dancing clubs after a new sex trade
licensing policy was adopted by councillors.
The policy says there could now be two sex shops, two sexual
entertainment venues but no sex cinemas.
Owners will have to pay a £5,697
application fee.
Under the policy, performers have to cover up after each
performance and are banned from working intoxicated or under the
influence of any illegal substances. They are also prohibited from
taking contact details from customers. The only physical contact
allowed between a customer and the performer is the exchange of
money or tokens at the start of the performance.
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Torfaen |
News 5th March 2011: License Fee
An annual sex shop licence costs £1,103.
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Wakefield |
News 28th March 2012: License Fee
The Wakefield licence tax for adult entertainment venues is
£2,934. Wakefield are also imposing a business killing 30cm distance
rule on lap dances
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Watford |
News 6th July 2011: Town Centre only for Kids
Watford Council are consulting on plans to ban lap dancing from
the town centre
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Wellingborough |
News 28th February 2012: Nil Policy
Wellingborough Council have adopted a nil policy towards lap
dancing and also want to reduce the amount of events allowed under
the 'less than monthly' exemption to the lap dancing prohibition
law.
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Weymouth |
News 12th May 2011: Lap Dancing and Sex Shop Fees
Licence fee set to £3,500
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