Not widely reported it appears, but an application for a new SEV in Acton was rejected last week by Ealing Council on grounds of 'locality'.
Interesting as the area is non-residential, and the policy for sex establishments in Ealing only identifies Acton Town Centre as suitable for a club, and the residential districts as unsuitable, so not clear how this locality was regarded.
It appears that being opposite a family leisure centre was the clincher here.
Aldgate
Club Oops
30 Alie Street
Aldgate
London
E1 8DA
News April 2013:
Poster proved too sexy for the advert censors of the ASA
The Nag's Head
17 Whitechapel Road
Aldgate
London
E1 1DU
Mon-Sat: noon to 1am
Sun: 4pm-11pm
Strip pub with presumably free entry, but a pound in the pot for each striptease show.
Notes from the Nag's Head, January 2017:
The Nags Head is one of the capital's oldest lapdancing establishments. with all kinds of beautiful girls from everywhere in the world, there's nowhere better to watch exotic dancing. From private dances to seductive stage shows and live sport, Nags
truly has something for everyone.
Whites Gentlemen's Club
32-38 Leman Street
Aldgate
London
E1 8EW
Tues-Fri: 7pm - 4am
Admission from free to £10 depending on time
From Whites, January 2017:
The Club is part of London's impressive nightlife and blends beautifully in amongst the city's historic surroundings. We adopt a different approach to most gentlemen's clubs allowing our patrons to completely relax on our large, comfortable leather
sofas in the main club area, a drink in their hand whilst watching our ladies on the pole.
Bethnal Green
Metropolis
234 Cambridge Heath Road
Bethnal Green
London
E2 9NN
Mon-Wed: 7pm -3am
Thu-Fri: 7pm - 4am
Free entry before 9pm
Promotional Material, February 2017: Indoor Beach
Metropolis is a simple gentlemen's club, reminiscent of old Vegas strip clubs.
Car Wash Fantasy room
3 floors of the hottest girls in town
Vip lounge, Penthouse suite's, Indoor beach, Sexy cabana beds-
Broadgate
For Your Eyes Only
23 City Road
Broadgate
London
EC1Y 1AE
Mon-Fri: 5pm - 5am
Sat: 6pm - 5am
Describes itself as the UK's largest gentlemen's club.
Listing checked in September 2018.
Clerkenwell
The Griffin
The Griffin
125 Clerkenwell Road
London
EC1R 5DB
Mon-Thurs: noon to midnight
Fri-Sat: noon to 1am
News February: Licence renewed
The bar's licence was renewed but was opposed by toxic feminists from the Women's Equality Party.
Notes from The Griffiin, January 2017: Strip pub with table dancing
The Griffin is a fully nude table dancing venue, located close to Chancery Lane & Farringdon stations, in the heart of London's legal district.
Come in and enjoy fully nude stripteases on the main stage every 10 minutes. You can also have a private dance in our luxurious private dance lounge with the girl of your choice. We have over 30 girls working at The Griffin in shifts.
Dress Code is smart casual, clean trainers are fine. The Griffin is free entry also, unlike many other Striptease Venues in London. Our drinks are reasonably priced, comparative to any London Pub.
Covent Garden
Secrets Covent Garden
51 Parker Street (Off Kingsway)
Covent Garden
London WC2B 5PS
Mon to Sat: 7.00pm to 3.00 am
Prices Feb 2015:
Entry before 9.00pm: Free
Entry after 9.00pm: £20.00
Stringfellows
16 Upper St Martins Lane
Covent Garden
London
WC2H 9EF
Mon-Sat: 9pm - 6am
Admission free before 11pm, £25 after 11pm
Listing confirmed in October 2016.
News October 2013: Ongoing legal case
Stringfellows is involved in a legal about whether dancers are employees or not and whether they there entitled to employee rights or not.
Unlike many adult entertainment venues in this country we aim to provide a much more fun friendly service by incorporating many of the US chain's games and ideas in our own way to encourage customer involvement in a safe, enjoyable manner and enhance
the customers overall experience. We also aim to differentiate ourselves from the rest of the adult entertainment industry in this country as we are female run. The General Manager Uthania's mission has always been to combat the seedy image
this type of venue can obtain by turning it in to a luxurious venue that is also female friendly.
Ealing Broadway
LA Confidential
1 High Street
Ealing Broadway
London
W5 5JY
Tue-Thu: 9pm to late (last entry 2am)
Fri-Sat: 9pm - 5am (last entry 2am)
Entry £20
Opened in 2000.
News June 2018: Closed
The bar was closed after undercover snitches for the council were entertained by sexy dancers that were too touchy feely for the misery guts of the council.
The club is intending to re-open sometime in 2018.
Epsom
Fillies
4 East Street
Epsom
KT17 1HH
Thurs: 9pm - 1am
Fri-Sat: 9pm - 3am
Euston
Secrets Euston
34/38 Eversholt Street
Euston
London
NW1 1DA
Mon to Sun: 8.00pm to 6.00 am
Prices March 2017:
Entry before 10pm: £10.00
Entry after 10pm: £20.00
£
Spearmint Rhino
161 Tottenham Court Rd
Euston
London
W1T 7NN
Monday: 6pm -3am
Tue-Sat: 6pm-4am
Sun: 6pm-2am
Entry £20 (£10 before 7pm)
Listing confirmed in February 2017.
News February 2015: Early closing on morality grounds
Spearmint Rhino's flagship venue in Tottenham Court Road will be forced to close its doors two hours earlier after a Camden Council licensing committee supposedly because of late night noise.
Labour ward councillor and moraliser Rishi Madlani said the club was utterly inappropriate for the area and urged the committee to reject the application.
After the decision Madlani moralised about a good result and would secure 676 hours a year less objectification of women and a positive result for the residents of Paramount Court .
Lawyer Robert Sutherland, representing the club, said they did not accept much of the evidence given by neighbours and insisted that independent surveys of noise levels had found they did not exceed regulations.
The club will now have to shut at 2am Monday to Friday, and at 1am on Sunday.
News September 2014: Licence granted
Spearmint Rhino survived a licensing scare as councillors rejected calls to shut down its flagship venue.
Camden's licensing committee agreed to allow the club to keep operating, until next month at least. Only one month as it had taken 11 months for last year's licensing process to complete.
News June 2014: Award
We at Limo Broker were overjoyed to assist the London Spearmint Rhino girls last week, chauffeuring them to pick up the award for Best Gentlemen's Club in London.
News March 2014: Licence refused
Spearmint Rhino, the lap-dancing megaclub on Tottenham Court Road, was denied the renewal of its licence because of the large number of private booths for dances, which were prohibited by the authority's Sex Establishments Policy after concerns were
raised by locals.
The council also expressed concern about the lack of CCTV in parts of the club, including the open areas of the toilets. The council said it was concerned that the club had an unwillingness to address this and what that implied .
News January 2014: Spearmint Rhino vs Husband and Wife Team
Spearmint Rhino lost a court case against restrictive rules being applied to the club by a licensing committee where a husband and wife had majority control and united to impose restrictions.
News December 2013: Fire
15 people were treated in hospital after a fire broke out in the flats above Spearmint Rhino on Tottenham Court Road
News November 2013: Early Closing
Spearmint Rhino failed in an appeal against a council imposed closing time of 3am. The club was seeking to extend opening hours to 4am. The judge cited nuisance from touts when ruling against extended opening hours.
Hammersmith
Secrets Hammersmith
62 Glenthorne Road
Hammersmith
London
W6 0LR
Mon-Sat: 8pm - 4am
Entry: £10 before 10pm, £20 after 10pm,
Listing checked in February 2017.
Prices Feb 2015:
Entry before 10pm: £10.00
Entry after 10pm: £20.00
News May 2013:
The bar was banned from opening during the day at its annual licence renewal. Moralists objected to the club opening during the day for no apparent reason other than personal morality. The bar doesn't open in the daytime anyway and agreed to drop the
option for daytime opening.
Hayes
The Victoria
Hyde Road
Hayes
News June 2014: Licence revoked
The pub had its licence revoked for reasons unrelated to stripping. The police arrested 9 people for reasons related to cocaine dealing.
News August 2013: Renewed
The bar has had its licence renewed. The council received 2 objections citing unlikely complaints about noise and prostitution, but the police did not object to the licence application.
Woolpack/Inhibitions
Dawley Road
Hayes
UB3 1EJ
Inhibitions
Mon-Thu: 9pm - 2am
Fri-Sat: 9pm - 4am
Woolpack is a long established strip pub with a separate table dancing club Inhibitions.
News from Inhibitions, October 2014: Going Strong
Contrary to reports, the woolpack And inhibitions is not for sale and never was. The business is going from strength to strength. Looking forward to seeing you all soon
The owner is looking to establish a 2nd Tantric Blue, taking over Black Diamond in Leeds
Holborn
The Red Rooms
4 Great Queen Street
Holborn
London
WC2B 5DG.
Daily from 10pm
Promotional Material, February 2017: Independent
The Red Rooms Gentlemen's Club is an independent club offering 3 floors of sumptuous, spacious areas for men, women, couples, groups, stag parties, corporate events and single night owls looking for adventure. In this electric mix, guests from home
and abroad mingle with Eastern Europe, Latin, America and Asia to create a relaxed and diverse atmosphere to have fun in.
While some similar venues are perceived as very expensive, our club offers reasonable price from the moment of entry.
Secrets Holborn
3 Grays Inn Road
Holborn
London
WC1X 8HG
Mon to Sat: 8pm to 3.30am
Prices Feb 2015:
Entry from 7:30pm: £20.00
Fully nude table dancing. Listing checked in January 2019.
Kings Cross
The Flying Scotsman
Caledonian Road
Long established traditional strip pub closed in November 2015 and is now a standard pub called The Scottish Stores.
Kingston
Blue Bar
The Sir Robert Peel
160 Cambridge Road
Kingston
Long established traditional strip pub with no private dancing
News July 2014: Closed
The pub has closed and the site is set to become flats.
Ami-Gi
High Street
News October 2014: Closed
Ami-Gi has been bought out and the replacement Library Club will not be offering table dancing
4 Duke of York Street
(off Jermyn St)
Mayfair
London
SW1Y 6LA
Mon-Sat: 8pm - 3:30am (last entry 2am)
Entry: £20
Listing confirmed in March 2017
News May 2013:
Established for 60 years but now sold to the Secrets chain who will convert the club to their table dancing format.
The Mayfair Club
49 Dover Street
Mayfair
London
W1S 4NY
Mon-Fri: 9pm to late (up to 6am)
Listing checked in February 2017
No 4 Mayfair
1st Floor, 4 Mill Street
Mayfair
London
W1S 2AX
Mon-Sat 10pm - 5:30am
Previously Sakura Club
Listing checked in December 2018.
Promotional Material: Tucked away
Tucked away in the heart of Mayfair, opposite Londons famous Savil Row in Mill Street, No4 Mayfair can be accessed via a very discreet doorway. Unaware by passers by you will enter Londons Most Elite Gentlemans Club filled with most glamourous,
Exotic and Beautifull ladies from all over the world.
Northwood
The Olde Northwood
142 Pinner Road
Northwood
HA6 1BP
News June 2013: No More Strippers
The venue stopped the strip shows on the 22nd June 2013.
Shoreditch
23 Paul Street
23 Pault Street
Shoreditch
London
EC2A 4JU
Mon-Fri: 7pm - 3am
Promotional Material
Today we are a cabinet of curiosities, historical and sensual, where the scoundrel in you can indulge his or her playful side in a refuge of old world chic and addictive irreverence.
An upmarket strip club that is also a nightclub at the weekends.
Browns has been a city institution for over 30 years! Come along and spend an evening in the company of London's most beautiful girls at one of the capitals oldest established gentlemen's club.
Along with fully nude live shows every 10min we have an in-house DJ mixing music the latest music throughout the day and large screens with BT Sport and Sky.
Free entry but with a pound in the pot for each dance
Listing checked in October 2019.
Promotional Material
With exposed brick walls, old oak flooring and a beautifully hand crafted bar, The Horns Strip Club London is a must stop for anyone looking for a good night out in London. The Horns Strip Club in Shoreditch is ready to provide a unique and fun night
out for all with fully nude live shows provided all day for your entertainment.
A long running strip pub. Listing checked in September 2018.
The White Horse
64 Shoreditch High Street
Shoreditch
E1 6JJ
Long running strip pub closed in July 2016.
News July 2016: Closed
The long running strip pub has closed due to unviable rent increases for lease renewal.
News January 2014: Mentioned in dispatches
A Guardian balancing piece mentioned the White Horse:
Strippers are not the problem... They're just doing a job Strippers are paid for a service, much like the rest of us. Legislating to close down clubs is not helpful. By Frankie Mullin
Long running strip pub with lap dancing. Listing checked in September 2018.
Soho
Angels
Wardour Street
Soho
London
W1F 8ZH
Associated with Stringfellows. Closed in September 2016.
The Box
Walkers Court
Soho
London
W1F 0SD
Tuesday - Saturday: 11pm - 4am
Listing checked in December 2018.
News May 2013: Under Threat
The high society erotic cabaret seems under threat as the Paul Raymond heir who owns it as ambitions for a straight theatre.
The venue was once famous as Paul Raymond's Revue Bar
La Capannina
21 Bateman Street
Soho
London
W1D 3AL
Monday - Saturday: 8pm - 3am
Listing checked in December 2018.
Sophisticats
5 Brewer Street
Soho
London
W1F 0RF
Mon-Sat: 9pm - 3am
Listing checked in December 2018
The Sunset Strip
30 Dean St
Soho
London
W1D 3RZ
Monday - Saturday: Noon - 1am
Entrance £15
Listing checked in December 2018.
Non stop strip tease with drinks at pub prices
Vanity
4 Carlisle Street
Soho
London
W1D 3BJ
Mon-Sat: 8pm - 3am
Listing confirmed January 2017.
Windmill International
17-19 Great Windmill Street
Soho
London
W1D 7JZ
Mon-Sat 9pm - 5:30am
Entry £15
Promotional Material
Windmill International was the first London theatre to feature fully nude dancers and stage performances, and since then it has become a UK landmark and one of the world's most exciting gentlemen's clubs.
The Windmill takes pride in astounding its visitors and keeping them entertained all night long. A night at The Windmill would be nothing without our mesmerising dancers (the Windmill girls), and watching them perform in the most enticing and
alluring shows in the whole of London. Our Windmill girls are world famous for being the most stunning dancers and showgirls, and they come to entertain you here from across the globe -- from Brazil, to Europe, to Asia, and now to London.
News October 2018: Trying for a new licence
The club has been attempting to get its licence restored at a magistrate's curt hearing.
News January 2018: Shut down by Westminster Council
Westminster Council has shut down the Windmill table dancing club after an anonymous feminist group hired private detectives to snitch on no touch rules being broken for private dnances.
The club has 21 days to appeal.
The Windmill is a relic of the area's colourful past as it was previously the venue hosted a long running erotic show.
Stratford
Swagga
27 Broadway
Stratford
London
E15 4BQ
Seems to be a nightclub with occasional events requiring a sexual entertainment licence
News November 2015: License Renewed
And the licence was duly renewed with noting any further details of the entertainment on offer.
News September 2015: License Renewal
A sex entertainment licence has been maintained for sometime by the venue without it really being publicised. The nightclub has now changed hands and locals are taking an interest in the licence renewal.
Swiss Cottage
Secrets
309 Finchley Road
Swiss Cottage
London
NW3 6EH
News February 2015: Closing
Owners of Secrets said they decided to close the club, which has been open since 1999, after deciding Finchley Road "wasn't quite the right location" for a table-dancing club
Tower Hamlets
News April 2014: Nil new venues
Tower Hamlets has passed a resolution to opt into table dancing licensing. the council has decided to ban any new clubs but to allow existing clubs to continue.
News October 2013: Morality Fee
Tower Hamlets are currently proposing an increased immorality charge of £9,000. There has been debate as to whether this can be justified under the law that it should cover admin only
News September 2013: New venues to be banned
Tower Hamlets Council must have been a little perturbed at consultation revealing a distinct lack of public support for moralist bans on adult entertainment. However this didn't stop the council proposing to ban new businesses. But at least it seems
to have saved existing businesses from an immediate nil policy. The decision still needs ratification by the full council.
Vauxhall
Bar Code
Arch 69
Albert Embankment
Lambeth
London SE1 7TP
Gay bar with SEV licence.
Eagle London
349 Kennington Lane
Vauxhall
London SE11 5QY
Gay bar with SEV licence.
Fire Club
44 Parry St
Vauxhall
London SW8 1SQ
Gay club with SEV licence.
Union Vauxhall
Arch 66
Albert Embankment
Lambeth
London SE1 7TP
Gay club with SEV licence.
News July 2013: Licence granted without consideration
PC sneering at adult entertainment only applies to that for heterosexual men. So the licence for gay entertainment sailed straight through without hassle.
A flagship London West End lap dancing club is in trouble with the local council for offering a little too much fun.
Platinum Lace hit the headlines earlier this year after a video emerged of two of its dancers encouraging customers to fondle them. And this week, the miserable bosses at Westminster City Council have announced a course of action.
The Council will put questions about their enforcement action in a public consultation and have now confirmed the venue had its licence temporarily extended ahead of the results of the consultation. When the public have had their say, the
council's licensing committee will re-visit the application and decided whether to close the club down or not.
News May 2013: Licensed
Licence awarded in May 2013.
Whitechapel
The Nags Head
17 Whitechapel Road
Whitechapel
London
E1 1DU
Monday - Saturday: noon - 1am
Long running strip pub and table dancing venue. Listing checked in January 2019.
Woolwich
The Royal Standard
Albert Road
Woolwich
London
E16 2NQ
Strip pub
News September 2013: Dancing stopped pending licence renewal
The Royal Standard Strip Pub has had dancing stopped over issues with renewing the license.
Seems 3 councillors have been sitting round like schoolboys doing home work and they have all sent in the same(ish) letter with the whole what about the schools issue.
It is a pub, last time I checked kids are not allowed in so how would this affect them? Is there plasma screens on the outside with the dancers being live streamed? no! Is there peep holes designed so kids can peek in? No! Does it advertise sweets or
toys? No! So why do people think children would be bothered, upset or even know what is going on. Seems the pub has agreed to security to stop the 1,000s' of children beating the doors down.
The renewal application is being heard on 5th September.
The bar contributed to the consultation about more licensing powers controlling table dancing bars
Private Eyes
74 Chapel Street
Aberdeen
AB10 1SN
Sun-Thu: 9pm - 2am
Fri-Sat: 8pm - 3am
News March 2018: Robots
The club made the news after booking a performance from dancing sex robots.
News February 2013:
In trouble with the council for late payment of licence fees
Private Eyes 2
30 Bridge Street
Aberdeen
AB11 6JN
Sun-Thu: 9pm - 2am
Fri-Sat: 8pm - 3am
News May 2015: Fracas
The bar made the news as a case of assault involving 2 women reached the courts. A case that continued to get mentions from March 2014 to May 2015
Accrington
iCandy
Blackburn Road
Accrington
News February 2014: Auctioned off
A town centre building in Accrington could be given a new lease of life after being put up for sale. The large, three-storey corner building, in Blackburn Road, was home to controversial lap dancing club iCandy, which closed its doors recently.
Aldershot
Tiffany's Lapdance Club
38-40 Grosvenor Road
Aldershot
GU11 3DY
Wednesday - Saturday: 10pm - 3am
Entry: £5 early £10 late
Listing checked in January 2019
Altrincham
Totties
The Causeway
Off Cross Street
Altrincham
Cheshire
WA14 1DE
The club marginally made the news due to nearby assault.
Basildon
Katz Gentlemen's Club
Time Square
Basildon
SS14 1QT
Wed-Thu: 8pm - 3am
Fri-Sat: 8pm - 6am
Entry £5-10
Ownership connections with Diamonds and Strings in Watford and Entice in Southend. Listing verified in September 2016.
Benfleet
Galore
Brunel Road
Manor Trading Estate
News April 2015: Licence approved
The first club within the Castle Point local authority area has been approved. Peter Burch, chairman of the council licensing sub-committee said:
We consider the arguments made by the objectors don't contain sufficient reasons to reject the application, but we do understand the concerns raised...We believe the police and other relevant authorities have agreed stringent conditions with the
applicant to properly regulate the premises.
News November 2014: Moral crusade
Campaigners are trying to prevent a new table dancing club proposed for the Manor Trading Estate. All the usual bollox is being trotted out proximity to schools and religious buildings. The council received 35 objections.
Birkenhead
Peachez
36 Conway Street
Birkenhead
CH41 6JD
Fri-Sat: 11pm - 5am
News September 2018: Retrospective planning permission received
Now Peachez was operating legally with a SEV Lecense issued from the Council back in October 2017 as there were no indications of any illegality and as followers of the blog know you cannot apply moral judgements on venues. Now the councillors Phil
Davies and Jean Stapleton decided to use planning laws to close the venue by declaring it as unsuitable for the location. So Peachez appealed and the national planning inspectorate had to make a decision on if the club was suitable. And this is where
it gets exciting and has much wider impact. Well the directorate has ruled in far of the club and it said it creates a positive impact on the night time economy.
News April 2018: Retrospective planning permission refused
Peachez opened in November 2017 and now seems to be playing catch-up with some of the council permissions required.
The bar has asked for opening hours of 9am to 5pm on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays.
The council refused planning permission for a change from nightclub to lap dancing club and the venue will now be asked to revert to being a nightclub.
However the club is appealing the council decision and can remain open until the appeal is heard.
Opened in 2018 and
Birmingham
News October 2014: Capped
Licensing moralists have imposed a cap of eight lap dancing clubs in Birmingham city centre -- saying they will allow no more to open.
The council's licensing committee claimed there are fears that any more strip clubs, particularly in the Broad Street and pub and club areas, would lead to the city getting a sleazy reputation.
The Barrel Public House
Soho Road
Handsworth
B21 9SX
News April 2013: Planning Appeal Rejected
Applicants were refused planning permission to convert a pub into a table dancing venue. Moral reasons and religious sensitivities were cited and seemed to be the only real difference to other similar applications that are accepted.
Adult World, on Hinckley Street has applied to Birmingham City Council for a Sexual Entertainment Venue licence. It already accommodates a sex shop and sex cinema but bosses want to introduce lap dancing and stage strip shows every two hours.
The council's licensing enforcement team has not objected but ordered the shop to take down a giant illuminated sign of a semi-naked woman which sits above the main entrance.
As part of the application Adult World has provided a list of its house rules which includes requiring photographic identification from anyone before they are employed to dance, no touching between dancers and customers other than to place money in
their hands, not encouraging customers to throw money at performers or offer gratuity, no simulated sex acts and a zero tolerance drugs policy. Dancers will also be prohibited from giving out or receiving personal details.
The council's Licensing and Public Protection committee approved the licence application on July 23.
West Midlands Police have been informed but have not commented on the application.
Cyclone Club
192 Broad Street
City Centre
B15 1AY
Listing confirmed in November 2016.
Jonny Diamond's Gentlemen's Club
89 Holloway Head,
Birmingham B1 1QP
Entry £10
Mon-Sun 8pm - 2am
Lace Club
John Bright Street
News December 2014: Licence refused
A club on John Bright Street, central Birmingham, has been refused a licence by Birmingham City Council. This venue, which previously offered striptease before becoming a burlesque club ('Rouge') was refused a licence on the basis of being unsuitable
within the locality and with reference to other land use in the vicinity.
What a load of bollox. John Bright Street is in a desolate corner of Birmingham city centre that is penned in by 2 legs of inner ring road dual carriage way, on the other side a busy little road which is one of the few ways in and out of the shopping
area...and on the fourth side is the concrete monstrosity of New Street station. The only businesses that hang in there are a few pubs, a cinema and a theatre. It is the most suitable area in town.
There was only one public objection.
Legs 11
Broad Street
City Centre
B15 1AY
News, March 2018: Trail goes cold
The criminal investigation into Legs 11 has gone cold despite police believing the club was defrauding and drugging customers.
West Midlands Police confirmed there were no active lines of enquiry stating no further action would be taken into the former Birmingham lap dancing venues.
No-one has ever been arrested and it means the probe has now hit a brick wall relying on new information coming from the public.
News, July 2017: Closed after police raid
A report at a Birmingham Council licensing committee meeting claimed that a concerted, sophisticated and highly organised criminal operation was being run from the Broad Street branch of the Legs 11 lap dancing club.. This was said to include
financial fraud and human trafficking.
A mass raid resulted comprising of a campaign group, Hope for Justice, city council officials, trading standards, Revenue and Customs officials, police and even the Red Cross.
Inevitably the raid failed to find evidence of trafficking. No arrests were made, and the campaign group Hope for Justice said no hard evidence of people trafficking was uncovered. A spokesman said that none of the girls wanted to engage with us, or
with the police. Some of the girls talked about having to 'pay to work', maybe £100 or something, but then potentially being able to earn more than that. Some of them earn very good money -- £1,000 a night perhaps, but others much much less. He
added:
In this particular case, we didn't see clear cases of girls being forced to be there.
Later it was revealed that the club had lost its licence over fraudulent transactions targeted at customers. The club was investigated over 17 fraud-related allegations since 2013, police said.
Some customers paid for dances in a private area but additional transactions were taking place that they had not authorised, Supt Parsons added. One victim claimed he had lost as much as £19,417. It was also reported that customers were routinely
overcharged by the venue which turned over £1.6m in one six-month period.
The venue is now a pie shop.
Legs 11
Ladywell Walk
China Town
City Centre
B5 4ST
News July 2017: Closed
The club lost its licence over fraudulent overcharging of customers at the Broad Street branch. The venue is now a nightclub called Images and has new owners.
Medusa Lodge
139 Hurst Street
Birmingham
B5 6SD
Mon-Sat: 9pm - 6am
News November 2016: Hurst Street
The club is now operating at 139 Hurst Street after moving from Suffolk Street.
News September 2015: Burlesque
The owners have applied for a licence at a new venue in Hurst Street, where it plans to transform into a burlesque club.
The owners want to open between 10pm and 6am. As well as burlesque dances there will also be lap dancing offered in private booths.
Owner Cas Carrington previously said she was keen to attract more women to the new venue, with the trend moving away from traditional lap dancing. She said:
We are going to focus a lot more on burlesque. I think a lot of people are getting a bit bored of lap dancing.
News September 2015: Moving
The owners have submitted plans for a change to change the Suffolk Street venue into a restaurant and moving the table dancing club to the former home of the Route 2 bar at 139 Hurst Street.
The Nightingale Club
Listing confirmed in November 2016.
News November 2013: Gay club
It appears that the Nightingales club in Birmingham obtained a licence in July for sexual entertainment. I assume there were no objections and it was given approval without reference to committee as I can see no record in council minutes. For
information, it is a long established male club in the gay village of Birmingham.
Paradise
Broad Street
City Centre
News July 2014: Rejected
The council rejected the application arbitrarily claiming that 3 table dancing venues on Broad street is enough and a fourth would somehow be a tipping point to Broad Street being an adults only area.
News May 2014: Re-hearing postponed
Under threat of having to justify their bollox excuse for a ban to the High Court in a Judicial Review, Birmingham Council have agreed to hold a re-hearing for the bar's licence application.
The re-hearing was arranged for late May but was postponed after no shows from several committee members.
News February 2014: Licence refused
Council moralists refused the licence ludicrously claiming that a 4th table dancing club would somehow change the dynamic of Birmingham's bar and nightlife quarter
News January 2014: 8 objectors
Ladywood MP Shabana Mahmood and the Rep Theatre are amongst 8 objectors to the club citing nonsense arguments that a 4th club would somehow drastically change the character of Birmingham's pubs and clubs area.
News November 2013: Drinks licence refused
A proposed table dancing club which would be the 3rd on Broad Street was refused a drinks licence on the unlikely sounding grounds of inexperienced managers and proximity to a bus stop
Pure Gold
Olton Boulevard East
Acocks Green
Birmingham
News, March 2019: Application
A company called Pure Gold has submitted an application for a license for the venue in what used to be Zorbas Greek Restaurant on Olton Boulevard East in Acocks Green .
If successful, the venue would be open for dancing from midday to 4am on Sundays to Wednesdays and midday to 6am on Thursday to Saturdays.
A few miserable tweeters have whinged that the proposed venue is three doors down from Tiny Terrorz play centre and just over the road from Little Cherubs nursery on Warwick Road.
Birmingham is getting a new weekly comedy club, in a lap dace and strip club. The Rocket Club will host comedy from Friday September 19.
Venue manager Warrick Ramseier was keen to point out:
Our comedy shows will not overlap with our current late-night entertainment, and audiences will have the opportunity to leave the venue before this commences.
News February 2014: Legal dispute
Judgement has been reserved in a legal case resulting from a dispute over a strip of land outside the Rocket Club. Two businessman with connections to the club are claiming ownership
Scarlets Gentlemans Club
34 Horse Fair
City Centre
Birmingham
B1 1DA
News November 2018: Re-opening
Scarlets has had its licence renewed and is set to re-open after a few months absence. The council dismissed objections from Birmingham Hippodrome and the Birmingham Ballet considering them to be moral objections which are disallowed by law.
Promotional Material, February 2017:
With spacious booths and seating areas you can enjoy topless and fully nude dances, whilst private dances are available in one of our exclusive VIP rooms.
Also notable for using the buildings that were once home to the White Lion, once my favourite pub in Birmingham.
Eden 2 is facing stricter controls around how it takes payments from customers after complaints were made to the police and council.
The council's public protection sub-committee renewed the bars licence but only for six months instead of the usual 12 months. The licence was also subject to new conditions:
Bar staff and dancers will be given training in appropriate sales techniques which must take into account drunkenness/capacity of customers.
Detailed records must be taken of all card payments, that customers are offered chance to sign their payment record and dancers will be stopped from using their own payment methods.
Card terminals must be at a fixed point, covered by CCTV, and management must oversee transactions over £100
Price lists must be prominently displayed.
News, April 2015: Mentioned in passing
An incident inside the club led to a court case.
News September 2013: Licence renewed after a dance censor was appointed
A lap dancing club has had its licence returned after employing a dance censor to ensure performers comply with the rules.
Vital maintenance work has also been carried out at Eden on Blackpool Promenade? after health and safety inspectors found a series of electrical faults at the club.
The club had lost its sex entertainment venue licence in July after Blackpool Council said it was failing to meet the requirements. CCTV images showed dancers getting close to their customers.
The Dolls House
Queen Street
News July 2013:
The owner of Eden has again applied to open a fifth table dancing venue in Blackpool, on Queen Street. And again it was refused citing bollox about fire safety of the 2 storey building.
News March 2013:
The owner of Eden was refused a licence for The Dolls House on moral grounds that there are enough already
Eden 1
Queen Street
News October 2013: Licence granted
Taking the opportunity of Rouge Closing, Eden 1 has been granted a licence. It is located above the bar Kraze.
Heaven
Gaiety's
Central Promenade
News July 2013: Licence renewed
The licences for the 4 existing table dancing venues in Blackpool have been renewed
News July 2013:
The bars has applied for a licence renewal. The application also asks for the council to allow full nudity, currently banned in Blackpool.
Rouge
Clifton Street
News October 2013: Closed
The bar has closed perhaps with the intention of re-opening in a different location
News July 2013: Licence renewed
The licences for the 4 existing table dancing venues in Blackpool have been renewed
Sinless
The Strand
News July 2013: Licence renewed
The licences for the 4 existing table dancing venues in Blackpool have been renewed
Bolton
News April 2014: New venues banned
Under new rules, pole dancing clubs, strip shows and sex cinemas will not be allowed to open near schools, houses, parks, tourist attractions, religious buildings or any existing entertainment venues.
Cllr Nick Peel the member in charge of licensing, said in reality it means new applicants looking to open a sexual entertainment venue in Bolton will find it very difficult. He said:
The criteria doesn't really leave much left in terms of areas.
News December 2013: Nil Policy
Bolton were a little late coming to the anti lap dancing moralist party but have now proposed a council policy of no new venues in the city centre. The council looks set to tolerate the existing club though.
Diamonds
4 Manor Street
Bolton
BL1 1TU
Friday and Saturday 10pm-4am
Lap Dancing Club
Listing checked in January 2019.
News April 2017: Sign of censorship
A sign for Diamonds lap-dancing club in Bolton has been taken down at the demand of the council.The sign showed a blonde woman in a low-cut black corset.
When it was first erected in 2015, Cllr John Walsh whinged that it was an embarrassment. It is located on one of the principal routes out of Bolton and Cllr Walsh said that it did nothing at all for the town's image.
Manager at Diamonds, Sean Doyle, said that the council asked them to take it down due to new sexual entertainment licensing laws, which mean it can only have text on the poster.
He said: We've taken it down under new sexual entertainment licensing laws. The law means that we can't use pictures, it just has to be text, which is what we're doing. [I think the council have been telling a few porkies here, there is nothing
in the law that prohobits images on signs.
The council is still trying to buy the venue as part of a re-development program.
Boston
Dream Girls
Craythorne Lane
Boston
The venue that is now Studio Nightclub was previously After Dark Nightclub which had an associated lap dancing bar called Dream Girls
Studio Nightclub
Craythorne Lane
Boston
Studio Nightclub has occasional lap dancing events.
News July 2016: Licence granted
Studio Nightclub has been given the green light to run lap dancing events at the venue.
A change of use application for Studio Nightclub in Boston, formerly After Dark in Craythorne Lane, was submitted asking for the use to become a mixed use of drinking establishment and lap dancing venue.
Bournemouth
For Your Eyes Only
136 Old Christchurch Road
Bournemouth
BH1 1NL
Mon-Thu: 10pm - 4am
Fri: 9pm - 6am
Sat: 8pm - 6am
News November 2016: Licence renewal
The club's licence was renewed in November 2016.
News October 2014: A few moralist objections
For Your Eyes Only in Old Christchurch Road has applied to Bournemouth council to renew its licence for another 12 months.
The application has been met by five moralist objections from people urging councillors to turn it down on reason such as being near a church.
Spearmint Rhino
1 Yelverton Rd
Bournemouth
Dorset
BH1 1DA
Tue-Thu: 10pm - late
Fri-Sat: 9pm -6am
Sun: 10pm - late
News November 2016: Licence renewal
The club's licence was renewed in November 2016.
News September 2015: Renewed
Now this six month probationary period is up and Spearmint Rhino applied to renew its licence on June 12.
Bournemouth Council's licensing board later met to discuss the renewal application and was satisfied steps had been taken to ensure customers were protected. The licence was duly renewed for 12 months.
News December 2014: On probation
A Bournemouth lap-dancing club has been granted a new sexual entertainment venue licence, despite claims it exploited customers.
Spearmint Rhino's licence went before Bournemouth council's licensing board after the council received 15 objections to its application for a renewal.
The board's chair, Cllr Andrew Morgan, granted a six-month licence on a probationary period subject to conditions agreed with police.
News November 2014: Fleeced
Spearmint Rhino's licence application hasn't exactly been helped by a drunk and not rich man who was allowed to run up credit card bills of about £7,584. Councillor David Smith, who is supporting the man's formal objections to the venue's
license renewal, said: I was shocked and concerned to hear of the experience this man had in Spearmint Rhino. 3 other similar claims will be heard at the licence renewal meeting set for 16th December.
Update: The victim of the fleecing sued Spearmint Rhino and the case was settled in July 2016 with an undisclosed settlement paid by Spearmint Rhino to their customer.
News October 2014: Moralists object to licence
The future of a Bournemouth lap dancing club will be decided by councillors in December, after 15 people objected to its licence being renewed.
One of the people who has objected is Reverend Tim Matthews, of St Swithun's Church. He called for the council to place its recent inspection report in the public domain so residents could judge for themselves whether the club should be
allowed to continue operating. He clearly would like to see local people lose their jobs over a few transgressions. He spewed:
The imposition of further restrictions will require vigilant monitoring and future inspections all at public expense. The only effective way to demonstrate the seriousness of SEV licence breaches is to refuse to renew this SEV licence.
He also objected on moral grounds stating:
In my pastoral work I constantly deal with the damage caused when impressionable people are lured away from their committed relationship partners.
Surely an organisation with such a deep rooted problem with child abuse have absolutely no right to moralise to others. They should set their own house in order first. Its seems an awful lot more clerics have been prosecuted for sexual abuse than lap
dancing customers.
News September 2014: Too sexy
The bar has got into trouble for breaking the council's miserable 'no touching' rules. It is expected that further repressive rules will be added before the venue is allowed to renew its licence.
Wiggle and Elegance
159 Old Christchurch Road
Bournemouth
BH1 1NU
Wed-Sun: 9pm - 6am
Entry charge after 11pm on Friday and Saturday, after 12om on other days.
Listing checked in October 2017
News November 2016: Licence renewal
The club's licence was renewed in November 2016.
News January 2016: Outdoor drinking
Wiggle has been granted permission to install outdoor seating visible from the roadside. The council approved Wiggle's plan, which will allow its customers to take their drinks outside until 11pm, at a licensing meeting.
Although no sexual entertainment will be offered in these areas, located behind the building's front gate and wall, concern was raised that it will be within earshot and visible from Old Christchurch Road and Lorne Park Road.
The club's proposal to install a new VIP area on the first floor, containing CCTV-monitored private booths separated by lightweight curtains , was also approved.
News November 2013: Too Sexy
The bar is facing opposition fro its licence renewal from miserable police who have reported that the dancers have been a little too sexy.
Bradford
News August 2013: Reduced Fees
Bradford Council plans to cut the amount it will charge for the licensing of sex shops and zoos, following a Court of Appeal ruling. The cost of a licence for a sex shop, sex cinema or strip club is likely to be reduced from £5,658 to
£1,928.
The licence was renews for Central Chambers. After all the publicity about the anti-table dancing petition, only 9 letters of opposition to the licence were received.
News August 2013: Recommended by Nutters
A handful of Bristol miserablists have raised a petition calling for the closure of Bristol's two table dancing clubs and its lap dancing club at Temptations
Jack of Diamonds
Occasional events
46 West Street
Old Market
Bristol
BS2 0BH
News January 2019: On occasion
The venue lost its licence in 2017 but is continuing with occasional add events (typically monthy)
Opens on Tuesday 4th October 2016. Previously Temptations
The bar offers a topless bar from 6pm -9pm and then strips from 9pm. Private dances with full strips are £20.
Temptations T3
46 West St
Bristol
BS2 0BH
Became Jack of Diamonds in October 2016.
Urban Tiger
4 Broad Quay
Bristol
BS1 4DA
Mon-Thu: 10pm - 4am
Fri-Sun: 9pm - 4am
News January 2019: Licence renewed
Urban Tiger received its annual permit despite objections from women's rights groups who demanded that the sexist venue should be shut down.
News April 2015: Party Poopers
A strip club has been banned from using images of women dressed up as schoolgirls after claims that the images sexualise children .
Urban Tiger's licence has now been altered to state:
Relevant entertainment shall not include any word, action or imagery that endorses or depicts, or might reasonably be taken as endorsing or depicting, or be promoted as including, any conduct which, if taking place in reality, would amount to a
criminal offence.
News August 2013: Recommended by Nutters
A handful of Bristol miserablists have raised a petition calling for the closure of Bristol's two table dancing clubs and its lap dancing club at Temptations
Mansion Investments Limited is seeking permission to open the sexual entertainment venue, known as the PC Lounge, on Botchergate, in the heart of the city.
The city council has received 16 objections from residents, church leaders and community groups.
Carlisle
Rouge
8 Englishgate Plaza
Botchergate
Carlisle
CA1 1RP
Thurs: 9pm - 3am
Fri-Sat: 9pm -4am
Listing checked in August 2018
Central Bedfordshire
News October 2013: Morality Zone
Central Bedfordshire Council has banned table dancing and sex cinemas by imposing a 500m exclusion zone around most buildings including residential areas. Sex shops have been excluded from the restrictions.
Chelmsford
The Cave
51 Viaduct Road
Chelmsford
CM1 1TS
Thu-Sat: 8pm - 2am
Lap dancing club established since 2004
The owner noted in 2016 that The Cave does not have private booths and objected to a competitor who proposed private booths.
Unnamed club above CTZN bar
News December 2016
Strip club owners wanting to open a new venue in the middle of Chelmsford face an uphill battle after objections from Essex Police over a highly controversial rule to allow touching.
Wizard Sleeve plans to open a strip club over two floors above CTZN bar, which would feature a large table stage and a collection of private booths and VIP rooms.
Essex Police say they are opposed to the company wanting to relax Chelmsford City Council's strict no touching condition that stipulates there shall be no physical contact between the customer and the performer during the performance or after the
performance .
The club had proposed that 'a shake of hands should be acceptable at the end of the dance.
Cheltenham
News October 2014: Policy agreed
Cheltenham Borough Council debated for more than three and a half hours whether or not to completely prohibit the clubs. The total ban was defeated in a ballot by 19 votes to 18. Councillors then voted by 25 votes to 9 in favour of allowing the clubs
in the town centre but not in residential areas.
News April 2014: Consultation
Cheltenham Borough Council has launched a 12 week period of public consultation in a bid to gauge opinion on the prospect of setting a limit on the number of the venues in the town. This could include the option to totally ban the clubs
Blue Room
Closed. Was licensed back in 2013.
Fantasy Gentlemen's Club
3 Strand Court
Bath Road
Cheltenham
GL53 7LW
Cheltenham Festival (horse racing) week only, 8:30pm - 4am
News March 2018: On the occasion of Cheltenham races
The club opened for business after the first day's racing as occasional opening is allowed without a licence.
News February 2017: Fillies banned from Cheltenham
An application for sexual entertainment venue licence at the Fantasy Club, 12-14 Bath Road was rejected.
About 20 objections were lodged against lap dancing club plan. The licensing committee voted 3-1 to refuse the application on the grounds that the premises were in a supposedly inappropriate location.
The committee heard objections from an opposition alliance made up of Councillor Flo Lucas, St Paul's Residents' Association Chair Tess Beck and Lesley Painter of local feminist group, Chelt Fems. Painter argued that Cheltenham Borough Council should
follow in the steps of high-profile international organisations such as Formula 1, who axed scantily clad grid girls from their events last year.
This is the first time in three year's that the The Fantasy Club has been refused a licence. The club was granted a licence for lap dancing in 2017 and 2016.
News February 2015: Licence renewed
Fantasy Gentlemen's Club has been given permission to continue running for another year.
More than 25 people wrote in to Cheltenham Borough Council with their objections, claiming the location was inappropriate and it detracted from the character and appeal of the local area.
But the applicants said the club has run for a year with little or no trouble. Gloucestershire Constabulary said it had no incidents to report.
News January 2015: Battle Lines
Fantasy has applied for a licence renewal and a couple of miserable campaigners have intimated that they would consider another campaign against the club.
News June 2014: Fantasy
The venue previously intended to be Blue Diamond has now been sold to new owners. The bar will now open as Fantasy Gentlemen's Club and will open on 19th June 2014. It is associated with Fantasy Club in Swindon.
News February 2014: Licence approved
The council approved the licence. There were 200 letters of opposition but mostly on unallowed moralist grounds.
News January 2014: New Application
Local residents are inevitably aghast that anyone has dared to propose a table dancing club in Cheltenham
Campaigners say it would not be an appropriate venue, it would be immoral, and they fear for the safety of women passing by late at night.
The 2 Pigs Pub
Cheltenham
News January 2017: Application
A company runs occasional lap dancing events to coincide with race days. At the moment the company already runs such events spread across 5 venues, presumably to qualify for the 11 events a year allowed without a sex entertainment licence. The
company would now to like to rationalise this to one licensed venue, the 2 Pigs Pub, and so have submitted a licence application to Cheltenham Council.
50 residents have submitted an objection whinging about morality and location. The police have chipped in a list of 30, now doubt repressive, licence conditions.
Chester
Platinum Lounge
Bridge Street Row
Chester
CH1 1NN
News July 2015: Chester Tutters
Chester's only strip club has been closed down by moralists on Chester's Council. Arbitrary reasons were quoted for the refusal to renew the licence for Platinum Lounge in the city centre.
Chester and Cheshire West Council's planning committee claimed it was no longer appropriate for Platinum Lounge to continue. The committee noted the venue was close to family friendly premises, such as BARS??? and
restaurants, as well as residential accommodation. They also noted that the presence of a strip club does nothing to enhance Chester's family friendly tourist offering , the Dewa Roman Experience.
The venue later became a Breakout centre.
Chesterfield
Krystals
Knifesmithgate
Chesterfield
News, January 2015: Closed
The club has been closed for some months but retains a sexual entertainment licence. Presumably to provide a more attractive proposition for potential buyers.
Colchester
Climax
St Botolphs Street
Previously Heaven. Became Climax in mid 2013.
News June 2013: Climax
...And the new name is Climax.
News May 2013: New Hands
It looks likely that Heaven is set to be sold. An application has been made to the council for a licence under a new name.
Consett
Red Velvet
Front Street
Consett
The club was closed in February 2013 when the club's drinks licence was revoked after a police drugs raid. The bar re-opened as a standard nightclub in July 2014.
Coventry
Club Heat
7 City Arcade
Coventry
CV1 3HX
Tue-Sat: From 9pm
News August 2014
Club Heat was mentioned in the news as an incident involving a violent assault outside the club reached the courts.
News March 2013
Coventry has very kindly decided to protect Club Heat's monopoly of table dancing in the city. The council decided that no more clubs should be allowed.
Crewe
The Manhattan Club
News June 2013: Licence Lost
The bar has lost its sex entertainment licence after complaints by the police.
The police claimed that the premise was non-compliant because it did not:
maintain separate entrances for customers and performers to use... maintain a satisfactory register of performers with the level of detail required...check on the age of performers to ensure they are over 18...maintain a register of SIA staff
working at your premises...[or] have a nominated female chaperone oversees female performers.
The local council has approved planning permission and a sexual entertainment venue licence or a stand alone table dancing club at 2 Pevensey Road. The Sexual Entertainment Venue licence application will be heard in July 2018.
Edinburgh
News September 2013: Reality TV
TV production company Firecracker Films is making a documentary series about Edinburgh's table dancers. Channel 4 has confirmed that Firecracker will film a character-led observational documentary series about performers in the city's best-known lap
dancing bars.
Burke & Hare
2 High Riggs
West Port
Edinburgh
EH3 9BX
News November 2013: Charity Day
The bar organised a charity day to raise fund for an injured friend. Dances were offered at £5 instead of the usual £10.
Club Rouge
Lothian Road
Edinburgh
EH3 9AW
Cabaret and showbar. Previously Sapphire Rooms. Closed in June 2015
Baby Dolls
2 Lauriston Street
Edinburgh
EH3 9DJ
News November 2014: Assets frozen
As a result of police investigations, the owner of Diamond Dolls has had his assets frozen by prosecutors as part of a proceeds of crime investigation
News June 2014: Police raid
Scottish police raided the venue after some supposed connection with trafficking. Inevitably they found nothing.
Fantasy Palace
12 Shandwick Place
Edinburgh
EH2 4RN
Tue-Thu: 8pm - 2am
Fri-Sat: 7pm - 3am
News October 2015: Under threat
The club owner has submitted plans to close the bar and to build 11 apartments instead
The bar found fame in 2004 when it was licensed as a sex cinema to show R18 films during the Edinburgh Festival.
The Liquorice Club
16 Home Street
Edinburgh
EH3 9LY
News November 2013: Up for Sale
The bar is up to be sold at auction. It may be sold as a going concern but it will be up to the new owners.
Sapphire Rooms
Lothian Road
Edinburgh
EH3 9AW
Became Club Rouge
The Western Bar
157 W Port,
Edinburgh
EH3 9DP
Strip bar
Exeter
Eden Lounge
162 Fore Street EX4 3AT
Exeter
Thur-Fri: from 9pm
Sat from 7:30pm
Admission
Thur-Fri: £5
Sat: £8
Still operating when checked in September 2018
News July 2015: Closed down by the council
den Lounge on Exeter's Fore Street opened in 2009, but has just lost its SEV licence. It won the licence in 2012, had seen it renewed but was refused it at a licensing committee meeting on 21st July. The council's have not been published but it was
probably in response to the usual trivial whinges, of which there were 16.
News September 2013: Chomping at the bit to ban table dancing
A New criteria of Sexual Entertainment Venue licence is set to be introduced in Scotland and will let councils decide whether they should be allowed. The move comes in Alex Salmond's government's plans for the next year which included a new Licensing
Bill.
Glasgow City Council has called for the power, which would effectively ban lap dancing bars in the city. The council has been seeking ways to close down lap dancing clubs, but has been powerless as there was no specific legislation that put the bars
and clubs in a separate category.
A spokesman said:
Glasgow has been consistent in calling for local authorities to have the power to refuse licences for places of sexual entertainment and so this announcement is welcome.
However, we will want to look very closely at what is proposed to ensure that the legislation will deliver on what is intended.
Diamond Dolls
39 Mitchell Street
Glasgow
G1 3LN
News January 2017: Closed
Diamonds Dolls has had its licence suspended with immediate effect after the local authority was told the dancer, dressed only in a bra and jeans and intoxicated, had been dragged from the premises by stewards following a row with management. It will
only be permitted to reopen when Police Scotland and licensing officials in Glasgow are satisfied it has tightened its internal procedures.
News November 2014: Assets frozen
As a result of police investigations, the owner of Diamond Dolls has had his assets frozen by prosecutors as part of a proceeds of crime investigation. However no charges were brought and the club continued.
News June 2014: Police raid
Scottish police raided the venue after some supposed connection with trafficking. Inevitably they found nothing apart from a personal cannabis stash and a member of staff found with an offensive weapon, presumably for self protection.
News February 2014: As seen on TV
Channel 4's brand new documentary series Strippers certainly got the telly audiences talking on Tuesday night, as the real lives of a group of strippers working in Glasgow's famous Diamond Dolls club were charted.
In the first episode, the spotlight was on Diamond Dolls, a lap dancing club on Mitchell Street in Glasgow, which is spread over three floors and employs over 40 dancers.
Viewers watched as the girls who are employed with the club explained their reasons behind working there, including one of the dancers who admitted her parents would be less than happy if they found out about her real employment.
News April 2013:
Expanding to open a new art deco lounge.
Legs 'n' Co
Maxwell Street
Glasgow
G1
News February 2013:
Noted as in dispute with HMRC and closed
Seventh Heaven
15 Elmbank Gardens
Glasgow
G2 4NQ
Sun-Thu: 9pm-3am
Fri-Sat: 8pm-3am
News April 2014
Owner Billy Peterkin was killed in a traffic accident in Spain on his stag do.
Licensed since 2012. Listing checked in December 2018.
News July 2016: Licence renewed
During the successful licence renewal council meeting it was noted that the owners had held the licence for the previous four years with no problems , and that the police also had no objections.
Great Yarmouth
The Bare Club
The Tower Complex
33 Marine Parade
Great Yarmouth
NR30 2EN
The licensing council will reconsider the licence application on 7th March 2019.
News December 2018: Licence refused
At the club's annual licence renewal
News December 2017: Licence renewal
Feminist campaigns of the White Ribbon group kicked up a fuss but the licence was renewed anyway.
The council agreed to end its rule previously requiring that g-strings should be worn at all times.
News November 2014: In a PC world why is it so acceptable to make outrageous slurs about men?
Calderdale Council' turned down the request to allow nude dancing citing the spurious reasons:
(i) significant concerns regarding public safety of the dancers and vulnerable members of the public in the vicinity of the Premises; and
(ii) the increased likelihood of crime and disorder.
News October 2014: Topless only
Feminist extremists continue to hold sway in Halifax.
An application to allow dancers to perform nude during lap dances has been turned-down by council moralists.
La Salsa on Silver Street, Halifax, requested Calderdale Council's Licensing Committee lift a condition on the club's licence requiring its dancers to wear a non-transparent g-string or similar piece of clothing on the appropriate part of the body
at all times.
Reza Shasavar, owner of La Salsa, told the board: Lap dancing is about having fun.
He told the board that he is applying for the amendment to the rules to avoid complaints and confrontations from men who feel the dance didn't go far enough.
Shasavar said: A few months ago I was asked by my bank manager to organise his brother's stag party. The stag had a lap dance and said 'I've seen more in the swimming pool'. The group left and went to a lap dancing bar in Leeds.
He said the business case was clear, and his club is unable to compete with lap dancing clubs in Leeds and Manchester which allow nude performers.
News December 2013: Miserable women's group Opposed licence renewal
Feminist campaigners of WomenCentre have written to Calderdale Council objecting to an application by La Salsa in Halifax to renew its sex establishment licence , commenting:
We promote positive lifestyles and the location of such an establishment directly opposite our centre could act as a deterrent to some women who may wish to access our services.
I find the idea of such an establishment in the town centre inappropriate and abhorrent.
The application to renew the licence for La Salsa will be considered at the Licensing and Regulatory Committee on Monday December 16 at Halifax Town Hall.
Harrogate
The Kings Club
1 Oxford St
Harrogate
HG1 1PY
Tues-Thur: 9:30pm - 6am
Fri-Sat: 10pm - 6am
Listing checked September 2018.
Villa Mercedes
1 Oxford St
Harrogate
News November 2015: Licence terminated
The clubs licence was refused after reports of too much fun and audience participation in the bar. The bar became Wildcats and then The Kings Club.
Wildcats
1 Oxford St
Harrogate
Closed and became The Kings Club.
Hartlepool
Little Black Book
18 Whitby Street
Hartlepool
TS24 7AD
Thu-Sat: from 10pm
News November 2014:
The bar was mentioned in passing in news story about a presumably unconnected assault outside of the bar.
Hastings
JB Bar
News May 2013: Licence refused
A licence was refused for lap dancing at JB Bar perhaps due to 124 objections.
Club XS
19-21 Prospect Place
Hastings
TN34 1LN
Thu-Sat: 10pm - 6am
Listing checked in September 2018.
Local feminists kindly publicise Club XS in Hastings
A Hastings lap-dancing club has come under fire for its use of mobile billboards. For the last few months adverts for Prospect Place-based Club XS have been parked around the area.
The ads have been criticised by several feminist campaign groups including the Bexhill and Battle Labour Party Women's Forum. Women's officer Anne Ruzylo whinged:
At this time of year, Bexhill has many tourists coming into the town and inevitably, many of them too will have seen these degrading ads at the side of the road. Posters like these not only leave a distinctly nasty taste in the mouth but also bring
the entire area into disrepute at a time when we need all the visitors we can get. This isn't just about the rights of one local business to make more money. These posters appear to suggest that women are on sale at a club just down the road from
here and that is something that directly affects every person in this country.
Forum members have written to the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) to raise complaints about the billboard.
Hemel Hempstead
After 8
News March 2013: Licence refused
Minimal opposition but a licence was refused anyway.
Huddersfield
Kirklees Council
News August 2015: Speaking their moralistic minds
Kirklees Council covering the area around Huddersfield has become the last authority in West Yorkshire to adopt sex entertainment licensing.
And it seems that Kirklees has been quick to impose repressive controls. New rules forbid fully nude dancing and also ban clubs from advertising in their windows using photographs or other images which suggest that striptease takes place.
Cleopatras Lounge on Northumberland Street in Huddersfield will bear the brunt of the new moralist policy from 1st October 2015.
The bar briefly made the news when a customer smashed a window after being turned down by a dancer.
News December 2015: Bigger premises
A lap-dancing club is planning to a move to bigger premises. Cleopatra's Lounge has applied to take over the former Kirkgate pub in Huddersfield town centre.
The premises have been under renovation for several weeks and owner Jason Armitage says he hopes to open in mid-January.
Hull
The Honey Trap
41 George Street
Hull
HU1 3AB
Previously known as Fantasy Bar. Listing confirmed in September 2016.
News September 2015: Licence renewed
Still a few whingers are objecting to the club, but it has caused no issues for the police or council so the licence was renewed.
The bar closed for roof repairs and subequently re-opened.
News June 2013: Licence renewed
Moralists tried to argue that a new school was opening within 200m of the club but the council and police reported no problems so the licences of these 2 venues were granted accordingly
The Purple Door
25 Dock Street
Hull
HU1 3DL
Mon-Wed: 9pm - 4am
Thu-Sat: 9pm - 6:30am
Listing confirmed in October 2018.
News September 2015: Licence renewed
Still a few whingers are objecting to the club, but it has caused no issues for the police or council so the licence was renewed
News June 2013: Licence renewed
Moralists tried to argue that a new school was opening within 200m of the club but the council and police reported no problems so the licences of these 2 venues were granted accordingly
The bar applied to extend Monday to Wednesday opening hours to 3am. This is being opposed by Scotland's Director of Public Health, Margaret Somerville, on the seemingly unconnected basis of an upfront payment for the dancers to work in the bar being
exploitative
The extended hours were agreed by the council.
News August 2013: Highbrow striptease
The Highlands Council is considering new rules for licensing of adult entertainment. They are seeking precise definitions to differentiate between highbrow striptease (burlesque) and lowbrow striptease (table dancing)
News July 2013: Opened
Hush opened for table dancing on 18th July 2013.
News May 2013: Hushed up application
Hush night club applied for a table dancing licence and was duly approved. Part of the Private Eyes chain.
Proposals have been submitted to Kirkcaldy Council for a new lap dancing club above Kitty's Nightclub in Hunter Street. Petitions fr and against the proposal with the 'for' petition leading by 400 to 300 signatures.
The Bar had just closed as as a table dancing bar and was seeking to return as a nightclub. However the bar was burgled and smashed up a few days after closing
Warwick District Council's licensing committee narrowly voted to renew the license for Shades. The moralists were well miffed.
News October 2013: Moralist Opposition
The council has received 300 letters of objection, while the Hindu Religious Association, who have a temple nearby, will have a barrister at the meeting giving their reasons for wanting the licence to be rejected.
News September 2013: Renewal time already
Representations about licence renewal are due by 5th September. The decision will follow at a date as yet unspecified.
News July 2013: Legal challenge ends
Opponents to Shades have ended their legal challenge, probably in realisation of the costs and risk of losing
News April 2013: Legal challenge commences
Opponents to Shades have persuaded the High Court to review the granting of the licence. The hearing as yet to be scheduled but will not be before June 2013.
Leeds
News March 2014: Deep Blue and Wild Cats lose Judicial Review
The two clubs lost their legal case against closure by Leeds Council on thinly veiled morality grounds. The judge ruled that any old bollox excuse will do.
The decision confirms that the discretion available to local authorities to refuse renewal or initial license consent is very wide, and that restrictive policies can still be justified so long as there is a clear justification given.
News December 2013: Arbitrarily Selected for Closure
Half of Leeds' six strip venues had applications to renew their sexual entertainment venue (SEV) licences rejected by the city council.
Deep Blue, Red Leopard and Wildcats were ordered to shut by next Friday. Liberte and Purple Door, both located on York Place, had their licences approved. The application for Silks, on Sovereign Place, was approved for a period expiring next June.
The council claimed the decision was taken to refuse three licences due to the number of buildings with sensitive uses nearby to the location of the premises .
News November 2013: Licence renewal day
6 table dancing clubs are scheduled to submit applications for licence renewals. Leeds gender extremists have passed a policy to only allow 4. Sparks will surely fly.
News July 2013: Morality policy adopted
Leeds Council has adopted the policy to close table dancing businesses that have done nothing except offend the morality of councillors.
The number of lap dancing clubs in Leeds will now be set at a maximum of 4 but it is not yet clear how Leeds will select the businesses for closure and how they will work around the illegality of closing businesses without reason.
Existing licences would be reviewed when they come up for renewal later this year, the council said. The new morality rules will come into force from September.
News March 2013: Moralists recommend that 3 lap dancing clubs should be shut down
A new draft policy recommends that Leeds City Council imposes a limit of four lap dancing clubs, three fewer than are currently operating. It also suggests banning strip joints from sensitive locations , for example near schools and
religious buildings. The policy is up for public consultation.
Black Diamond/Tantric Blue
New Briggate
News September 2013: First victim
Leeds Council have refused a licence for an enlarged table dancing club. The genderist morality was scarcely hidden behind a puerile official reason.
The licensing sub-committee cited the morality cap of 4 venues as one reason for rejecting the company's expansion plan. Members also said the venue was in a sensitive location and could create the wrong impression of Leeds because it sits at
a gateway to the city.
Black Orchid
Crown Street
Leeds
Temporary name used during a successful licence application. Opened as Whiskey Down, see below
Deep Blue
Wellington Street
Leeds
LS1 2DE
News December 2013: Arbitrarily Selected for Closure
Leeds Council moralists decided that club should be closed down for no apparent reason.
However the club has been allowed to stay open while it seeks a Judicial Review of the decision
Liberte
10 York Place
Leeds
LS1 2DS
Sun-Thurs: 10pm - 4am
Fri-Sat: 10pm - 6am
Previously known as Baby Platinum. Listing checked in October 2018.
News November 2018: Licence renewed
The licence was renewed after no public or police complaints were received by the council
News December 2013: Luck of the Draw
Leeds Council moralists decided that club were lucky and could continue operating
Purple Door
5 York Place
Leeds
LS1 2DR
Sun-Thu: 10pm - 4am
Fri-Sat: 10pm - 5am
Established in 1988. Listing checked in October 2018.
News December 2018: Licence renewed
The licence was renewed after no public or police complaints were received by the council
News December 2013: Luck of the Draw
Leeds Council moralists decided that club were lucky and could continue operating
Red Leopard
The Headrow
News December 2013: Arbitrarily Selected for Closure
Leeds Council moralists decided that club should be closed down for no apparent reason.
Silks Gentlemen's Lounge
2 Sovereign St
Leeds
LS1 4SP
Mon-Thu: 9pm - 4am
Fri-Sat: 9pm - 5am
News April 2018: Licence renewed
No objections were received and the licence was duly renewed.
News April 2017: Licence renewed
Again Support after Rape And Sexual Violence Leeds (SARSVL) has submitted a letter to Leeds City Council opposing an application for a licence renewal at Silks on Sovereign Place in Leeds city centre. However the licence was again duly renewed by the
council.
News April 2016: Objectionable campaigners
Moralist campaigners have objected to a Leeds lap dancing club's bid to have its sex establishment licence renewed.
Support after Rape And Sexual Violence Leeds (SARSVL) has submitted a letter to Leeds City Council opposing an application for a licence renewal at Silks on Sovereign Place in Leeds city centre.
However the licence was duly renewed by the council.
News August 2014: As quiet as a mouse
Silks, is facing a battle to keep its licence after Leeds City Council's director of development Martin Farrington said it should be shut down. Farrington claimed the continued operation of a strip club would detract from Sovereign Square -- a green
space, surrounded by cafes and shops, which is set to open in front of the club premises year.
Anthony Lyons, the lawyer representing Silks, said the front of the club would be painted green, instead of purple, to blend in with the new park and all signs would be removed. He added: We think we can become just about invisible.
Lyons added that it would be unfair to shut the club, which has operated for six years and has about 25 staff and 50 dancers on its books, a year before the new park is due to open. We see this as a premature objection, he said.
News August 2014: Opposition to renewal
A senior council employee is calling for a Leeds lap dancing club to be shut down, because it would supposedly spoil plans to redevelop part of the city centre.
Silks, at Sovereign Place behind Leeds railway station, has applied to renew its sexual entertainment venue (SEV) licence.
But Martin Farrington, director of city development at the council, has called for the licensing sub-committee to reject the application next week. He claimed the continued operation of a strip club would detract from a planned new public park,
surrounded by cafes and shops, which is set to open next year.
News July 2014: Looking to relocate
It has been reported that the venue is starting the planning process to relocate to the venue that was once Mezz Club Assembly Street.
Whiskey Down
25 Crown Street
Leeds
LS2 7DA
Licensed since March 2017
Sun-Thu: 10pm - 4am
Fri-Sat: 10pm - 6am
News, June 2018: Feminists object to licence renewal
Feminist campaigners from Support After Rape and Sexual Violence Leeds (SARSVL), Leeds Civic Trust and a person living near the club in Crown Street have made objections.
In a letter, a member of the feminist group said the council missed an opportunity when it introduced its policy to limit such clubs in the city centre to four. The gorup argues the strip club directly discriminates against women by normalising the
sexualisation and objectification of women and reinforce gender stereotypes of male insatiable sexuality and female sexual availability.
Leeds Civic Trust says the strip club causes harm to the local area which is full of buildings of historic importance, including the Grade I listed Corn Exchange.
Wildcats
155 The Headrow
Leeds
LS1 5RB
News February 2014: Appeal to Local Government Secretary
The owner of Wildcats on The Headrow has asked Local Government Secretary Eric Pickles to investigate why Leeds City Council is spending money on legal action to close it at a time when the authority is having to make major cuts and put up council
tax bills.
News December 2013: Arbitrarily Selected for Closure
Leeds Council moralists decided that club should be closed down for no apparent reason.
However the club has been allowed to stay open while it seeks a Judicial Review of the decision
Leicester
Angels
23 New Park Street
Braunstone Gate
Leicester
LE3 5NH
News July 2016: Appeal Withdrawn
A police raid at Leicester's Angels lap dancing club last year found CCTV footage showing breaches of miserable council rules forbidding physical contact between the strippers and the customers. Strippers were recorded straddling and fondling
punters.
In January of this year Leicester Council decided to revoke the club's sexual entertainment license. The owners of the club decided to initiate the appeal process.
However after a court hearing, and In the light of the CCTV evidence, the owners of the club have now withdrawn their appeal. And as a result of a court decision, the owners have been made to pay £15,500 in costs to the council for the time spent
preparing the council case.
The club is now unlicensed and can no longer operate as a lap dancing club.
Miserable councillors in Leicester have refused a lap dancing license renewal over claims that customers were having too much fun.
Angels, in New Park Street, off Braunstone Gate, could now face closure after having its application for a renewed sexual entertainment licence rejected by Leicester City Council because it strippers were touching and fondling customers in an
intimate and sexual manner.
Members of the council's licensing committee made the ruling after viewing CCTV footage obtained by police during a raid on the club on December 5.
Council licensing team manager Bobby Smiljanic whinged:
I was shown CCTV by the police which showed performers and members of the public clearly touching and fondling in an intimate and sexual manner.
She said the footage also showed strippers straddling customers - another forbidden practice.
The club is now considering appealing against the refusal at magistrates court. It has 21 days to lodge an appeal and can stay open until then and until any such hearing concludes.
Baby Blue
New Bond Street
News February 2014: Licence granted
The council granted the proposed club a table dancing licence. It is the 4th venue out of the 5 allowed by the council.
News February 2014: Application to re-open
Moralists are opposing a plan to re-open a lap-dancing club in their street. The club will be called Baby Blue
People in New Bond Street, behind Leicester's Highcross shopping centre, ludicrously claim the proposed club would bring anti-social behaviour and litter to their street.
Chasers
15 Freeman Lane
off Charles Street
Leicester
LE1 1JX
Thu, Fri, Sat: 11pm -late
Listing confirmed in March 2018.
News October 2015: Licence Approved
Leicester Council has approved the SEV licence for a new club to be called Chasers. It is the 5th out of the 5 clubs that Leicester has deemed suitable for the area.
Lily's Lounge
New Bond Street
News April 2016: New application
A new bar has made an application for a lap dancing licence.
Pyramid Lounge
Millstone Lane
News October 2017: New application
Jagdeep Narll has applied to Leicester City Council for a sexual entertainment venue licence in Millstone Lane.
Platinum Lace
1 Abbey Street
Leicester
LE1 3TE
Sun-Mon: 10pm - 4am. free before 12, £5 after
Tues-Thurs: 9pm - 4am. £5 all night
Fri: 9pm - 6am. £5 before 10pm, £10 after
Sat:, 8pm - 6am. £5 before 10pm, £10 after
The club has been granted permission to move to a city centre location at Princes Street, and to allow unrestricted opening hours. The club will move in mid to late November 2018.
The club moved from Lime St to Wood St in 2017. Listing checked in October 2017.
News May 2015: Thug
The bar made the news when a customer was convicted of theft and assault after losing his rag when finding that a private dance did not include a blow job.
News April 2015: Proposed new club
Strip club X in the City is bidding to move ro a new Liverpool city centre site. The current venue has been subject to compulsory purchase for a new development.
X in the City currently operates on Lime Street and has applied for permission to set up a pole dancing club on nearby Wood Street - home to rival business Xclusive who have objected to the council about the competition.
Documents to go before Liverpool council's licensing committee explain a Sex Entertainment Venue (SEV) Licence has been applied for by X in the City for 10-16 Wood Street - formerly the nightclub Fudge. The proposed club is described as:
Entertainment to be provided between 12 noon to 06.00 on Mondays to Sundays at the establishment is described as being 'lap dancing, pole dancing, strip shows and table dancing'.
Located above Woody's Night Club and was previously known as Tease. Listing checked in November 2018.
News March 2015: Competition
The bar complained to Liverpool Council about competition from a new club proposed by X in the City
Lowestoft
Candy Lounge
7-9 Station Square
Lowestoft
News February 2014: Licence approved
Waveney District Council's licensing committee voted in favour to allow the Candy Lounge Gentleman's Club to be set up in Station Square on the site of the former Vibe nightclub by the Bascule bridge. However the venue never actually opened.
News February 2014: New Application
An application by Hazel Wilson and Stephen Barrett to create a sexual entertainment venue in Station Square will come under scrutiny from Waveney District Council's licensing committee.
The pair are seeking permission to convert the former Vibe nightclub into what would be known as the Candy Lounge Gentleman's Club.
If approved, the club would cater for a maximum of 60 patrons and open from 8pm to 3am on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays and a number of bank holidays including Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve.
Jessy Fantail
Commercial Road
News November 2014: Licence refused
Waveney District Council's licensing sub committee voted unanimously against an application to open Jessy Fantail in the former Bank Stores pub, in Commercial Road, on November 21.
Applicants Hazel Wilson and Stephen Barrett were given the go-ahead to open the Candy Lounge Gentleman's Club in nearby Station Square in February and said they would surrender that licence if they received approval to open in Bank Stores.
Speaking after the meeting, committee member Sarah Webb said councillors felt the location of the latest venue at the gateway to the town and close to residential properties was inappropriate.
Monday - Tuesday: 5pm to 2am
Wednesday: 5pm to 3am
Thursday - Saturday: 5pm to 4am
Listing checked in December 2018.
Maidstone
Players Club
57 High St
Maidstone
ME14 1SY
Thursday - Saturday: 9:30pm - 2:30am
listing checked in November 2018.
News May 2013: Licence Renewed
Licence renewed despite local christian opposition
Manchester
Unnamed
Swan Street and Oldham Street
News March 2014: Application Rejected
The Council rejected the application, so far without comment to the press.
Connections of Baby Platinum and Baby Blue had applied to open a new table dancing bar in the the Northern Quarter. Predictably council miserablists are looking to reject the application citing that old moralist chestnut that it lowers the tone of
the area.
Angels
Portland Street
News July 2013: Plans withdrawn
Inevitable protests made the news for a new club in Chinatown. Perhaps because of significant public protest, the table dancing club plans were withdrawn prior to being put in front of councillors.
Baby Blue
Deansgate
Manchester
M3 2FW
Closed by 2018.
Baby Platinum
109 Princess Street
City Centre
Manchester
M1 6JB
Open Daily from 9pm
Listing checked in June 2018.
News February 2019: Licence renewed
The club has had its licence renewed
News December 2013: Brawl
The bar made the news after a man was seriously injured when stabbed in a brawl which started inside the club.
Fantasy Bar
Deangate
Manchester
Closed as a lap dancing venue since 2013.
Long Legs
George Street
Manchester
M1 4HF
Mon-Thu: 2pm - 1am
Fri: 2pm -2am
Sat: 5pm - 2am
Listing checked in June 2018.
News February 2019: Licence renewed
The club has had its licence renewed
Obsessions
2B Whitworth St W
Manchester
M1 5WZ
Daily 8pm - 4am
News December 2017: Licence renewal
The club has submitted a licence renewal.
Silks
22 Lloyd Street
Manchester
M2 5WA
Mon-Sat: 9pm - 4am
News April 2017: Licence review
The police called for a review of the venue's licence after a brawl but the venue seems to have survived the scare.
Victoria's
8 Dantzic St
Manchester
M4 2AD
Daily 9pm - 4am
Listing checked, June 2018.
News March 2019: Extension
The bar has asked the council for permission to open until 6:30 am after Champions League football matches.
News December 2017: Licence renewal
The club has submitted a licence renewal.
Merthyr Tydfil
Secrets Night Club
High Street
Merthyr Tydfil
News August 2016: Licence refused from holding
Merthyr Tydfil Counicl moralists have banned lap dancing at the proposed Secrets Night Club. The council cited spurious grounds that it would somehow create a no-go area for people from the local community.
Middlesborough
Secrets
Albert Road
Closed in 2010 after police complaints
Richmond's
Exchange Square
News, September 2016: Plans relit and extinguished
The owner of Slam! on Exchange Square has been banned from turning the venue into a lap dancing club called Richmonds.
Middlesbrough Council cited a couple of unlikely excuses about the location to justify the ban.
News, February 2015: Plans withdrawn
The owner of Slam! on Exchange Square has withdrawn its application to vary its premises licence.
News, February 2015: New plans
An MP and police moralists have whinged at plans for a new table dancing venue in Middlesborough.
Proposals to turn Slam on Exchange Square near Middlesbrough Railway Station into a lap dancing club have been lodged with Middlesborough Council.
Cleveland Police have objected to the plans citing several assaults at the previous venue and bizarrely claiming that the wrong clientele would be attracted to the venue.
Milton Keynes
Garudaa Gentlemen's Club
489 Avebury Boulevard
Town Centre
Milton Keynes
MK9 2EB
Listing checked in November 2018.
News August 2013: Licence granted
An application for a sex entertainment licence has been approved by the council. The application was made by the former owner of Phoenix Gentleman's Club. The club was previously located in Leisure Plaza.
The application was agreed by council officers on July 19 after receiving no complaints from members of the public.
A few local businesses have crept out of the woodwork to have a whinge.
The club still has to obtain planning permission for the change of use of the venue.
Speaking of prostitution in Milton Keynes the Labour group ludicrously claimed that the new club will make the situation far worse and encourage sex tourism into Milton Keynes.
Opposite Central Station. Listing checked in November 2018.
News, April 2015: Harman weights in
Labour deputy leader Harriet Harman criticised the council licensing committee and whinged:
Councils have to make difficult decisions on planning but I was pleased to see that Nick Forbes the Labour council leader has been extremely critical of the specific location of this particular establishment - right opposite the newly re-developed
Central Station -- as well as putting on record his personal view that such objectification of women is not welcome in the city.
News, April 2015: Licence granted
For Your Eyes Only Ltd have successfully renewed the sexual entertainment venue licence for the club on Grainger Street in Newcastle
The club is now planning to open at the end of May.
News, March 2015: New Application
An application has been submitted for a new club at Baron House opposite the Central Station. But the idea is being opposed by the arch PC extremist, Vera Baird, the local police commissioner.
A request to extend opening hours until 5:30am was denied by the Newcastle Council
Newmarket
Heaven Awaits
109 High Street
Newmarket
CB8 8JH
News November 2018: Licence renewed
Licence renewed with little drama apart from a token objjection by the town council (the are council is in charge of licensing).
News January 2015: Licence renewed
The council have renewed the venue's licence citing no reasons to change from previous decisions. A petition against renewal received just 166 signatures.
News November 2013: Licence Renewed
Forest Heath Council have renewed the licence despite ludicrous claims that the signage somehow resembles that of Las Vegas. The council also approved the continued use of the 'Las Vegas' style sign
News November 2013: Objections
Newmarket Councillors have joined the objectors to the licence renewal of Heaven Awaits. Forest Heath Council will decide upon the renewal.
According to town clerk Isabelle Barrett, it's not as if the club is in a particularly attractive area, but the council are trying to do something about it. She said:
The High Street is currently being improved and regenerated by the council's High Street regeneration committee. Our focus is to make it an attractive centre for both residents and tourists
Newquay
The Attic
Application rejected in 2013
Divas
Closed down for being too much fun. Now a pub.
Halos
Closed down for being too much fun
Wild Cherry
12 Beach Road
Newquay
TR7 1ES
Closed, now Koola Bar
Northampton
Urban Tiger
2 Abington Square
Northampton
NN1 4AA
Tue-Thu: 10pm - 3am
Fri-Sat: 9pm - 4am
Listing checked in November 2018.
News January 2016: Calls for banishment
Labour councillor and feminist called for sex shops and a table dancing club on Wellingborough Road to be banished from the town centre. Thankfully the council did not take heed of the call.
News July 2014: At it again
A total of 14 formal objections have been sent to Northampton Borough Council protesting against the renewal of Urban Tiger's sexual entertainment licence.
A total of four responses have been sent in support of the application and Northamptonshire Police has not submitted any objection to the licence renewal.
Letters have whinged about advertising and the location in the vicinity of a schoolwear shop, Games Workshop, a Jesus Centre, women's hairdressers, a residential area and a bus stop.
However, the general manager of Urban Tiger said the objections had come as part of an orchestrated campaign by a small group of individuals ideologically opposed to the existence of lap-dancing venues. Presumably he is referring to the
campaign group Object who orchestrated a similar campaign at the previous licence renewal.
The manager said there had been no crime incidents related to Urban Tiger in the past 12 months.
News May 2013: Object
Object have decided to campaign against a licence renewal for the club. The council received 76 objections or so most based on the Object template.
News April 2013: PC Police
The club is owned by a UKip election candidate. When this was revealed, party leader Nigel Farange was hauled over the coals by the PC police to check whether he was following their extremist ideology.
Norwich
Fallen Angels
Timber Hill
Norwich
NR1 3JZ
New for February 2014. No longer listed as a lap dancing venue by 2017.
Lace
Prince of Wales Road
Norwich
NR1 1NJ
Wed-Thu: 9pm - 4am
News January 2019: Re-opening
Currently closed but has now applied to the council to re-open.
Pure Gold Limited, which is planning to operate in the premises currently occupied by Bar 52, has now applied to the council for a drinks licence to serve alcohol and play music, amongst other things. The venue has already been granted a Sexual
Entertainment Venue licence.
The bar wants to offer lap dancing and pole dancing performances involving nudity and semi-nudity (also described as 'exotic dancing') from 8pm to 4am every day of the week.
Members of the public have until March 23 to comment on the application.
Update: The licence was approved in April 2018.
News, Jan 2018: Planning application approved
Plans have been submitted to turn Bar 52 into the Pure Gold Bar & Gentlemen's Club. The plans were subsequently approved.
Green party councillors Lesley Grahame and Ben Price have whinged about the plans, claiming that allowing the club would contradict national planning policy, which says planning decisions should aim to achieve places which promote safe and
accessible environments where crime and disorder, and the fear of crime, do not undermine quality of life or community cohesion.
American style table dancing club. Listing checked in January 2019.
News April 2014: VAT adds no value
A director of Sugar and Spice lap dancing club has lost his battle with HM Revenue and Customs to exempt the hiring of private booths from VAT.
Nottingham
News July 2013: Consultation
The long awaited survey on SEVs in Nottingham received 1,300 responses 70% of whom rejected the nil option as proposed by the council.
The council have declared this as inconclusive but hopefully attempts to close the existing clubs and sex shops will be quietly dropped.
Flirtz
26a Friar Lane
Nottingham
NG1 6DQ
Tuesday - Saturday: 9pm - 3am
Table dancing venue established since 2005. Listing checked in November 2018.
News October 2014: Licence renewed
Flirtz has had its sexual entertainment licence extended by a further 12 months
A local extremist group, Feminist Friends Nottingham, campaigned against the venue. The group wrote:
It is with reluctance that we object to a venue that employs women during a time when there is high unemployment and economic uncertainty; the brunt of which disproportionately affects women and children.
But of course they campaigned as vigorously as they could anyway.
Noted in local news as the council kindly paid for a new sign under some local beautification scheme
Peterborough
Angels
Earlham House
Brook St
Peterborough
PE1 1FQ
Tue-Thu: 10pm - 3am
Fri-Sat: 10om - 5am
Open since 2005. Listing checked in January 2019.
Plymouth
Divas
Defunct club that got in trouble over girls who offered hands-on dancing.
Angels
Union Street
Plymouth
PL1 3EY
Took over from Teazers in February 2013, but closed in 2014.
News August 2015: Flats
The bar closed in 2014 and now looks set to be converted to flats
Teazers
Teazers became Angels in February 2013 T
Temptations T2
2 Union Street
Plymouth
PL1 2SR
Mon-Thu: 9pm until late
Fri-Sat: 9pm - 6am
Listing checked in January 2018
News December 2014: Police Diary
The bar featured in a newspaper story based on an evening's diary of uniformed policemen keeping an eye on late night drinkers. Two visits to Temptations revealed nothing untoward.
News November 2013: Licence renewal
The bar has also asked for the deletion of the rule requiring 1m separation between dancer and customer
News, March 2018: Move finally rejected so Elegance to stay put
In a long running censorship story council moralists have confirmed that table dancing will not be allowed at the ALbert Road venue. Owner Paul Ojla said that the club would be re-opened at the Granada Road venue.
News, February 2018: Granted on appeal to the planning inspector
The council have again rejected the move to Albert Road.
News, May 2016: Move turned down again
The council have again rejected the move to Albert Road.
News, September 2014: Move turned down
The council have rejected the move to Albert Road. Owner Paul Ojla said: The decision seems to have been made on moral grounds rather than technical or legal grounds.
News August 2014: Looking to Move
A former private club for Conservative Party supporters could now become a lap-dancing venue. An application has been put forward to turn the former 149 Club, in Albert Road into a new premises for Elegance , currently based in Granada Road. The
Albert Road site has been closed since last year.
The adult entertainment venue wants to move out of a residential area into one that is more commercial.
News October 2013: Flyers
Portsmouth clubs managed to get a change of heart from the council and are now allowed to promote their clubs via flyers handed out in the street.
Wiggle
1 Surrey Street
Landport
Portsmouth
PO1 1JT
News February 2018: Licence renewed
94 objections were not heeded as they offered no evidence of the claimed problems and the police reported no troubles at the venue. The licence was duly renewed.
News November 2013: Granted a little Wiggle room
Wiggle were perhaps a bit lucky to get their licence renewed after council snitches reported proper lap dancing on the lap.
The bar has now promised to be on best behaviour, so no more lap dancing at this particular lap dancing club.
News October 2013: Flyers
Portsmouth clubs managed to get a change of heart from the council and are now allowed to promote their clubs via flyers handed out in the street.
Preston
Perfect 10s
10 Lune Street
Preston
PR1 2NL
Thu: 8pm-3am
Fri-Sat: 7pm-3am
Sun: 7pm - Late
News January 2018: Later
The bar has asked the council to allow later closing at 4am/
News August 2015: Court
The bar made the news when a violent thug was tried in court.
News August 2014: Haunted
The manageress called mediums from Sixth Sense Ghosthunters to investigate strange goings on.
Room 32
32 Guildhall St
Preston
PR1 3PB
Thursday-Saturday: 9pm-5am
Listing checked in November 2018.
News July 2014: Licence extension
Room 32 has applied to serve alcohol until 4.30am (closing 5am) Monday to Saturday and until 12.30am (closing 1am) on Sundays.
The owners of Kinky Koala have applied to open Black Diamond lap dancing club. Council were not impressed though and claim that the location is inappropriate being near an ice cream shop. However Councillors ended up approving the licence application
Chronicles
Valpy Street
News April 2015: Licence refused
The application was refused by Reading Borough Council spouting bollox that the club was not in keeping with the tone of the area
News March 2015: Application
A struggling restaurant in Reading town centre is hoping to improve its luck by opening a burlesque-themed lap dancing club in the basement.
Chronicles, in Valpy Street, have applied to Reading Borough Council for a Sexual Entertainment Venue Licence.
If successful the owners plan to open by early May.
Medusa Lodge
The Railway Arches
Abattoirs Road
Reading
RG1 7BL
Mon-Sat: 9pm - 5am
Listing checked in November 2018. Previously Diamonds and Pearls, Xposed. Describes itself as an adult nightclub and burlesque venue.
Sugar Lounge at Déjà Vu
St Mary's Butts
Reading
RG1 2LG
News December 2017: Bar & Grill
By December 2017 the venue seems to have become a simple bar & grill.
Redcar
Angels
112 High Street
Redcar
TS10 3DL
Lap dancing bar
News, December 2017: Above board
The council received a presumably vindictive tip off that sex was being sold at the bar but the venue was cleared after a police investigation found nothing untoward.
Rochester
Charlotte's Bar
Relinquished its licence citing competition from Tenshi
Banned on the spurious grounds of being close to a bus stop:
The Panel considered that the premises was not suitable to be licensed for Sexual Entertainments given the size and predominant use of 141 High Street as an Sexual Entertainment Venue as well as its proximity to community facilities such as the
adjacent Adult Education Centre, which is also used as a library, its proximity to the bus stop on Corporation Street and its proximity to Tenshi1 which is also operating under a Sexual Entertainments Venue licence.
The club has closed citing shared problems in its complex rather than anything individual to Rouge. The venue now looks set to be turned into flats.
Scarborough
Chic Bar
News August 2014: Application refused
The licensing committee refused the application on the grounds that the layout and character of the premises was inappropriate for the activity for which the licence was being sought .
News August 2014: Application
An application to open a lap dancing club in Scarborough is being considered by the council.
The council has received almost 100 objections, including a petition claiming the club would lead to an increase in anti-social incidents .
The council said North Yorkshire Police had raised no objections to the granting of a licence.
The proposed club would be located above an existing bar in the town centre and operate between 21:00 and 03:30.
Privilege
St Thomas St
Scarborough
closed in 2008
Sheffield
La Chambre
Sheffield is also home to a notable swingers club which is licensed by the council.
Spearmint Rhino
60 Brown Street
Sheffield
S1 2BS
Mon-Fri: 10pm - late
Sat: 9pm - late
Licensed since 2012 and has been trading since 2003.
A Sheffield lap dancing club has had its operating licence renewed despite dozens of objections from feminists on morality grounds.
Spearmint Rhino, on Brown Street, has operated for 15 years without trouble and the chair of licensing, councillor David Barker, said there was no evidence of poor practices at the club. Granting the licence, Barker said:
There was a very strong case against sexual entertainment in general from the objectors. However, we could find no strong evidence of poor practices or detrimental impact on the local area arising from the operation of the club.
Spearmint Rhino, which has been on Brown Street in Sheffield for more than 15 years, has applied for its sexual entertainment venue licence to be renewed.
And now the local university, Sheffield Hallam, has decided to initiate a morality campaign against the venue.
A Sheffield Hallam University spokesperson claimed the club could seriously undermine its multimillion-pound masterplan for the area. '
Feminist campaigners have been granted a judicial review against Sheffield's strip club licensing policy.
The review has been brought by a Sheffield resident referred to as Irene. Activists backing her case launched a CrowdJustice crowdfunding campaign on Thursday to cover the legal costs.
A Judicial Review examines whether official bodies followed correct and legal procedures eg when making licensing decisions.
It seems that moralist campaigners feel that the council should consider wider impact on women and gender equality, rather than just the wellbeing of those specifically affected by the Sheffield club.
The outcome could of course affect clubs and councils nationwide.
News April 2017: Licence renewed
The council renewed the licence but noted that there 100 objections from feminists.
News May 2016: Licence renewed
The annual licence renewal attracted 70 objections from the likes of the Zero Option Group. However as the venue had operated for a while without troubling anyone but the moralists, the licence was routinely renewed.
Villa Mercedes
Suffolk Street
Previously Scores.
News September 2016: Withdrawn
A licence application was withdrawn seemingly in the face of miserable opposition.
Wildcats
News March 2013: Planning Opposition
A new application stumbled at the first hurdle of planning permission
Shrewsbury
Source Vodka Bar
Barker Street
Shrewsbury
Licensed in 2013 but closed by 2018.
Skegness
Flirtz
107 Lumley Rd
Skegness
PE25 3LZ,
Daily: 9pm - 3am
News January 2018: Licence renewed
After a troublesome 2017 Flirtz seems to have responded adequately for the bars licence to be renewed.
News September 2017: Cocaine testing
Flirtz lap dancing was closed by police in July 2017 over suspicions that cocaine was regularly being taken at the venue. No drugs were found on a search but the venue must now undergo regular police checks for drugs as a condition of continued
operation,
News December 2015: Licence renewed
Flirtz lap dancing club in Lumley Road, Skegness has had its sexual entertainment venue licence extended for a year with the same conditions as at 2014.
This includes the condition that acts of birching or whipping (or acts of a similar nature) may not take place at the premises .
News August 2013:
The table dancing club made the news in passing with the police investigating an assault on the street outside Flirtz
Unnamed club
Grand Parade
skegness
News September 2018: Burlesque
Plans have been submitted to the local council for a new club. The plans include pole, lap and table dancing shows as well as burlesque dancing shows every half an hour,
Licence application was heard on 14th August and duly approved
The Playhouse Gentlemen's Club
1 Town Quay
Southampton
SO14 2AQ
News December 2018: Closed
The club's website says that the venue is currently closed but is set to re-open later.
News August 2013: Licence Application
Licence application was heard on 14th August and duly approved. There were 3 objections.
News April 2013: New Bar
The bar will take over from Maxim's Casino.
Wiggle
188 Above Bar Street,
Southampton
SO14 7DW
Wed-Sat: 9pm -6am
Listing checked December 2018.
News August 2013: Licence Application
A new application for an Sex Entertainment Venue Licence has been made for Isis bar. The request for last orders at 5am has resulted in police objections.
Southend
Cornucopia
39 Marine Parade
Southend-on-Sea
SS1 2EN
Strip pub
News June 2013: A short break
The pub had a short break from strippers whilst applying for and adult entertainment licence. The strippers have now resumed.
Entice
Warrior House
Soutchurch Road
Southend
Wed-Thu: 9pm-3am
Fri-Sat: 9am-4am
Entrance £5-10
Table dancing club opened in 2015. Ownership connections with Diamonds & Strings in Watford and Katz in Basildon
News September 2017: Licence renewed
The licence was renewed without drama. 3 objections were raised and a couple of councillors were sniffy.
News April 2015: Licence granted
A new club has been licensed in Southend. The club Entice is to be located in a former nightclub. The licensing committee noted that no objections to the application had been received from the Police. Four representations had however had been
received from local residents.
News February 2015: Feminist campaign
The Essex Feminist Collective is campaigning against the venue
A few locals of whinged that the proposed club is near the town centre. Julian Ware-Lane, Labour councillor for Milton ward spouted:
I think the location is an extremely poor choice. It's very close to the high street and residential areas, I think if you stick it out on the edge of town then a lot of objections would disappear.
What I do have a problem with is when you get an area saturated with them. It's very close to the high street and is on the main bus route.
It's not in a discreet place and I think it's in the wrong place. In the day, children and families will be walking past.
News October 2014: Proposed club
A new strip club could open in Southend town centre. Steven Laidlaw wants to open up the gentlemen's club called Entice in the former Bar Luna nightclub, in Warrior House, in Southchurch Road.
Split over two floors, there will be pole dancing in the basement and VIP lap-dancing booths on the upper level. The venue is expected to be open from Thursdays to Sundays, until 3am.
Forrestors
65 Marine Parade
Southend-on-Sea
SS1 2EN
Strip pub
News November 2014: Under threat of re-development
Foresters which has been an old fashioned strip pub for years is finally going to go with redevelopment plans for that part of Southend.
News May 2013: Oops
No strippers in April due to an overlooked lapsed licence. Now licensed and the strippers have resumed
The bar lost its licence over allegations of credit card fraud, drug-dealing, violent incidents and prostitution. The venue is now up for sale.
Stowmarket
Carbon Nightclub
Maltings Entertainment Complex
Stowmarket
News January 2015: Licence granted
The drinks licence was granted and it was made clear that the venue could hold no more than 11 burlesque nights as a Sex Entertainment Venue licence was not requested.
News January 2015: Carbon copy
Carbon Nightclub, part of the Maltings Entertainment Complex in Stowmarket, has applied to Mid Suffolk District Council (MSDC) for a new premises licence.
As part of the application it has included proposals for pole-dancing, striptease, lap dancing or burlesque nights .
Robert Perry is owner of the club said: It's good to stay fresh there's definitely a demand for it, 100%, it will be once a month at most.
The MSDC committee will meet on January 26 at 10am.
Sunderland
Little Black Book
18 Vine Place
Sunderland
SR1 3NA
Thursday - Saturday: 10pm - 4am
Listing checked in December 2018
Passion
43 Holmeside
Sunderland
SR1 3HY
Match day striptease fun for football fans highlighted in 2013. No mention of such entertainment in 2018
News September 2013: Licence granted
An adult entertainment licence has been obtained for striptease entertainment that is limited to days when there is a Sunderland home match.
DJ Wee Phillie has provided match day entertainment at Privilege before the club closed earlier in the year, but now looks set to perform at Passion. Part of his act includes a strip show.
Privilege
Now closed
Swansea
News July 2013: Banned
Swansea Council has banned table dancing from all areas of the city. Sex shops are allowed but only in the city centre.
News July 2013: Nil policy considered
Swansea is considering implementing a morality policy of banning table dancing from the town.
Somebody complained to the advert censors at the ASA about a poster for the club. But the ASA dismissed the whinge who found the advert to be suggestive rather than overtly sexual.
News May 2014: Brawl
Three men have been arrested after a mass brawl outside a lap dancing and gentlemen's club. Police were called at 04:21 to a 15-man fight outside the Dream Lounge.
News January 2014: Sentenced
The arsonist who attacked Dream Lounge was sentenced to 4 years in jail.
News July 2013: Arson attack conviction
A man has admitted endangering life when he smashed a car into the front of a lap dancing club which then caught fire. Faisal Qaddus was behind the wheel of a black Honda Prelude which was reversed into the front door of Dream Lounge at the bottom of
Victoria Road. He pleaded guilty to damaging property being reckless as to whether life was endangered.
News July 2013: Arson attack
The bar was badly damaged in an arson attack. The arsonist reversed a car to smash into the building, and the poured petrol and set it alight. A 26 year old man was later arrested by police
The rural pub, The Harp in East Peckham, has been offering striptease entertainment for around six years, with little opposition.
However, with the introduction of the new licensing regime in the borough, the licensee has applied for a licence which received 43 objections. Details of the reasons for the bar are to follow but it seems that these will be along the lines that
striptease is immoral in a rural setting.
A discreet club with no signage and no advertising.
News November 2015: Licence granted
Wakefield Council granted nightclub owner Kevin Spencer a licence to open the Pussy Cat Lounge sexual entertainment venue above Tequila nightclub on Bank Street. The bar is set open before Christmas.
The Hub
Market Street
Wakefield
News August 2014: Licence Application
Wakefield Council is considering an application to open a table dancing club on Market Street.
A licensing notice displayed outside building shows the applicant wants to open from 10pm-5am, Mondays to Thursdays, and from 10pm-6am on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays.
Wakefield MP Mary Creagh spouted: Strip clubs have no place in Wakefield, and can change the character of a city and make it threatening to women. And a strip club is the last thing local parents want their toddlers to see as they're dropping them
off at nursery. Referring to the local Toy Box nursery that opens half an hour after the proposed club closes.
Krystals
Licensed in February 2013 but closed by June 2013.
Walsall
Club X
23 Bradford St
Walsall
WS1 1PN
Fri-Sat: 10pm - 5am
Table dancing club
Warrington
Delicious
Legh Street
Licence granted in April 2013 but no indication that it ver made a go of it.
Table dancing club closed after getting in trouble for a mass brawl.
Weston Super-Mare
Red Shadow Gentlemen's Club
39A Regent St
Weston-super-Mare
BS23 1SF
Wednesday - Saturday: 10pm - 4am
Previously known as Shadow Lounge. Listing checked in November 2018.
Weymouth
Goldfingers
33 New St
Weymouth
DT4 8DB
Friday - Saturday: 10pm - 3am
Listing checked December 2018.
Wigan
Baby Platinum
54 King Street
Wigan
WN1 1BT
Mon-Sun: From 9pm
A new club for 2014.
Listing checked in June 2018.
News July 2015: Whingeing MP
The bar's licence was renewed by the council but the local MP was not happy. Lis Nandy whinged:
This is a deeply disappointing decision which ignores the legitimate concerns of residents and local charities who believe King Street is an inappropriate location for a sexual entertainment venue.
News July 2014: New licence and new conditions
A new licence was awarded in Wigan. No objections were received by the council.
The club also persuaded the council to drop its standard rules banning full nudity at all times. The updated restrictions now read:
The performer must wear at least a G-string covering the genitalia when not performing a dance. This may be removed during the performance but must be replaced at the conclusion.
Wilmslow
ST Lounge
Grove St
Wilmslow
Opened in 2009. Closed in 2013 after the council refused a licence renewal citing a supposedly inappropriate location.
Windsor
Pink Gentlemen's Club
The Basement
Oxford Rd East
Windsor
SL4 1EF
Monday - Saturday: 9pm - 4am
Lising checked in December 2019.
Wolverhampton
Cobra Lounge
30 Queen Street
Wolverhampton
WV1 3JW
Closed by 2018
The Foxy Lady
146 Oxford Street
Bilston
WV14 7DP
News December 2016: Foxy Lady Dance Bar
A lap dancing club is set to open next to an adult cinema in Bilston in the new year -- if they can get the girls.The opening of Foxy Lady's Dance Bar has been delayed because they cannot recruit the staff.
The new bar, which features three poles, a stage, severaT booths and a bar set in the backdrop of darkness, is due to open in mid to late January.
It will be open from 12pm to 4am under the name Pussy Galore
The draft policy sets out how applications for Sex Shops, Sex Cinemas and Sexual Entertainment Venues should be made to the Council and how the Council processes those applications. It also sets out what will be considered when determining
applications setting out the grounds on which the Council can refuse applications. The draft policy also sets out the standard conditions that will be attached to any licences granted.
Should you wish to have your say or put forward your views on the draft policy please complete the
consultation response form and return to: wrsenquiries@worcsregservices.gov.uk
The Last date for consultation responses: 24th October 2014
News December 2013: New controls adopted
Worcester City Council has voted to accept optional licensing controls available under the Policing and Crime Act 2009, which gives councils more power to moralise over table dancing venues
News August 2013:
A letter from Inspector Jane Francis, of West Mercia Police, to licensing officer Carl Phillips reveals that Police are taking it on themselves to make up the rules about nudity. Francis says full nudity should be permitted only within designated
areas. She said:
In all other areas within the premises the performers and employees must at all times wear at least a G-string (female) and/or pouch (male) covering the genitalia.
News July 2013:
When Black Cherry applied for a sex entertainment licence, it was noted that Worcester Council has not adopted the legislation requiring such a licence, and so an ordinary drinks licence also allows table dancing.
Black Cherry
57 Lowesmoor
Worcester
WR1 2RS
Daily: 9pm-4am (4:30am on Saturdays)
News October 2016: Outrage
A few miserable residents were 'outraged' at lap dancing club adverts which have been plastered across the city centre.
One resident called the signs a disgrace and called for their removal. He whinged:
I'm outraged, it's not the sort of thing you want visitors to see. It's a disgrace. I think they should be prosecuted. The centre of town is plastered with the lap dancing adverts.
News October 2014: Licensed
Black Cherry lap-dancing club has secured a sexual entertainment venue (SEV) licence to allow it to continue trading next year. The club features naked and topless female dancers.
At the meeting, Niall McMenamin, from the licensing team of Worcestershire Regulatory Services, said 11 letters of objection had been received from members of the public but that the police had no objections to the licence being approved.
News June 2014: Licence application
Worcester was a little slow in adopting powers to control table dancing. Worcester venues now have to apply for a lap dancing licence by July 1st 2014. Black Cherry has already applied for a licence.
News March 2014: Opened
The club opened on Friday 28th March 2014.
The club has nine private dance rooms - three opulent VIP rooms and six standard booths. On opening night 20 dancers are set to perform but after that there will be about 15 girls a night.
News December 2013: Another Bite of the Cherry
The Black Cherry gentleman's club is now set to open at the former DNA club.
Ash Patel chose to withdraw plans for a similar club at the former Images and Funk nightclub, in the Butts, in September, but decided to back down in the face of local 'outrage'. However, Patel has now succeeded in getting the old DNA club's
premises licence transferred to him two weeks ago, which will now allow him to now run the venue as a lap-dancing club. Patel said of the new Lowesmoor location:
This is a Bohemian part of Worcester, very cosmopolitan. It is perfect for this venue,
There will be on average 15 different dancers performing each night. The club will feature a main bar area and a stage but also six private dance booths and three VIP rooms. Before midnight, dancers will wear elegant evening gowns but, after this
time, they will be allowed to wear various outfits. They will only be able to be fully naked in the private booths and the stage will feature topless rather than fully naked dancers.
The plan is to open from 9pm to 4am on weekdays and 9pm to 4.30am on Saturdays.
Wrexham
Midnight Lounge
Abbot Street
Wrexham
News October 2015: Occasional use
The bar has announced that it will operate with occasional lap dancing. 11 events per year are allowed at an unlicensed venue.
News October 2015: Re-rejected
The council confirmed its ban after a subsequent meeting in which the applicants were allowed to put their case. The councillors banned the venue just because...they felt like it... claiming that they felt two venues was enough for the locale.
News July 2015: Rejected
The council has voted to reject the application in the face of moral objections and 4 tiny petitions totalling 100 signatures. The council will however give the club owners a chance to put their case in a meeting in October 2015.
News, June 2015: New Application
Plans have been put forward to open a lap dancing bar at the Midnight Lounge premises in Abbot Street in Wrexham.
It is proposed that the lap and pole dancing bar above Penny Black would be open Monday to Sunday between the hours of 9pm and 4am.
The Widnes-based company has submitted a Sex Establishment Licence application to Wrexham council, and the public have until June 23 to submit their views.
York councillors want to ban any more lap dancing and striptease clubs in York. They also want to restrict sex entertainment venues to the city centre, and to prevent them opening near places of worship, cinemas, theatres, concert venues,
schools, libraries and museums and other venues frequented by families or children.
Now the city council's gambling, licensing and regulatory committee has agreed to start a public consultation on a draft revised sex establishment licensing policy with a condition that York has a maximum of two sex clubs at any time.
Bohemia
News March 2013: Closed
The bar closed after defaulting on the rent
Black Orchid
5 Toft Green
York
YO1 6JT
Daily: 9pm - 3:30am, earlier on race days
News September 2018: Renewed
The council renews the licence and turned down the police request noting that in fact the club was already legally opening early on race days. The council also noted that there have been no significant recent complaints about how the club is
operating.
A request submitted to City of York Council s Gambling, Licensing & Regulatory Committee by the operators of Black Orchid in Toft Green asks the council to allow the club to open from 6pm when York Racecourse is hosting events. The club is
currently open seven days a week from 9pm until 4.30am. But while seeking a renewal of the sex establishment licence it requested permission to open between 9pm and 3.30am each night, but 6pm until 4.30am on race days.
In a letter from North Yorkshire Police's alcohol licensing unit, PC Deborah Chadwick called for the council to refuse the change in hours. She wrote:
North Yorkshire Police do not oppose the renewal of the sexual entertainment licence, however they are opposed to the extension of hours on York race days by allowing sexual entertainment to begin at 6pm.
The police are aware that the licensing committee recently granted earlier opening hours on race days for another sexual entertainment venue in the city. However, in the interests of fairness, North Yorkshire Police requests that the committee
adhere to their policy in not allowing sexual entertainment to take place prior to 9pm.
News September 2016: Renewed
The licensed was renewed by the council albeit without the extended opening hours requested.
News July 2014: New licence
A new licence was granted by York Council to a new venue that will operate above the Tokyo Club. There were 11 letters of opposition claiming harm on York's tourism trade. There was also a campaign against the club by feminists.
The venue is allowed top open daily from 9pm until 3am with an extension for horse racing days of 6pm until 4:30am. The police are now complaining about the early opening on race days. Probably a morality issue, in a letter to the licensing board,
the force's PC Deborah Chadwick said:
North Yorkshire Police do not oppose the renewal of the Sexual Entertainment Licence, however they are opposed to the extension of hours on York race days, especially allowing Sexual Entertainment to begin at 6pm.
News February 2015: Turned Down
Cllr Keith Aspden, chairman of the committee decided against granting the licence supposedly because of the area's character, which housed numerous residents, and ludicrously waffled that he feared its Listed building status would not be protected
sufficiently.
News February 2015: Downstairs
Owners of Upstairs nightclub want to expand into its ground floor on racedays.
Upstairs VIP Ltd has applied to City of York Council to vary the licence for the sexual entertainment venue, which is situated above Mansion nightclub in Micklegate but police, councillors and neighbours have spoken out, ahead of a decision next
week.
Upstairs wants lap dancing to be allowed until 5am instead of 3am seven days a week, and to be permitted in the ground floor bar area and front room on race days, when temporary booths would be installed. The club has also applied for a renewal of
its existing consent.
Five local residents have lodged worthless objections to the variations,
News February 2014: Licence Renewed
York council's licensing committee approved the application earlier this week. Licensing manager Lesley Cooke said members were satisfied that none of the grounds for refusal were established and therefore the licence could be renewed.
Owner Andrew Whitney said the opposition group's concerns about the organisations working with vulnerable women had been dismissed because their offices were all closed long before the club opened its doors at 9pm.
News November 2013: Licence Renewal
"Outraged' feminists have raised a 120 signature petition against the club's licence renewal.
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A sign for Diamonds lap-dancing club in Bolton has been taken down at the demand of the council.The sign showed a blonde woman in a low-cut black corset.
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Black Cherry lap-dancing club has secured a sexual entertainment venue (SEV) licence to allow it to continue trading next year. The club features naked and topless female dancers.
