Ash Patel chose to withdraw plans for a table dancing club in Worcester 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.
A petition against a lap dancing club in Worcester has been set up by a nimby who claims to have seen first-hand the devastating impact he says the trade can have on vulnerable young women. The e-petition against the Black Cherry
gentleman's club, in Lowesmoor, has been started by David Mair who lives around the corner from the venue. Mair believes the club, which is expected to open in the new year, will lower the tone of the area and create no go areas for women.
Mair
has predictably won the backing of the gender extremist organisation, Object.
But owner Patel said the club would be discreet with no salacious advertising outside the venue to avoid creating offence said:
To
suggest that the very presence of the club is a threat to local women or could cause endangerment to children is sensationalism to support the petition.
Nuisance would be prevented by installing acoustically secure doors and he
says there will be no exploitation of women.
A struggling entrepreneur who fears her business could go under says prudes should stop moaning about plans for a new lap dancing club nearby, claiming it could boost trade.
Sarah Colquitt, manager and self-confessed dogsbody at
the Puss n Pooch grooming salon and boutique in Lowesmoor, Worcester, is fed up with people moaning about the Black Cherry club, when it could help struggling traders keep their heads above water in the recession.
The club, which could
feature 15 naked or topless dancers performing each night, is scheduled to open at the site of the former DNA club in the new year.
Plans for a table dancing club in Worcester are set to be withdrawn in response to public 'outrage', but the applicant is still looking to open a club elsewhere in the city.
The proposal to open the club in the Butts, Worcester was due to be heard
by Worcester City Council's licensing committee , but the applicant has opted to withdraw it because of objections raised by the public.
A spokesman for applicant Ash Patel said he remained committed to opening Black Cherry in Worcester and he is
now looking at finding a site which would be deemed more suitable.
Dancers could be forced by morality police to cover-up and wear G-strings if they are women and posing pouches if they are men at a proposed table dancing club in Worcester.
Police do not object in principle to granting a licence to the Black
Cherry in The Butts, Worcester, at what used to be Images and then Funk nightclub, but want to attach morality conditions.
Worcester City Council didn't adopt 2009 legislation so the application must be considered under standard licensing rules
under 2003 legislation.
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.
During private dances there must be no deliberate contact by the performer with the patron except where they lead them by the hand to a private room, a handshake greeting at the beginning or ending of the performance, a customary peck
on the cheek and the placing of cash or dance vouchers into the hand or garter of the performer.
The application is set to be discussed by the council on September 26.
When prospective table dancing club, Black Cherry, applied to Worcester Council 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.
The licence process has now been reset and the venue will apply for the old style drinks licence.
A new period of consultation has now begun, which will end on August 20. The 16 people who registered objections to the
previous application have all been contacted and told of the new application.
Ash Patel chose to withdraw plans for a table dancing club in Worcester at the former Images and Funk nightclub, in the Butts, in September, but decided to back down in the face of local 'outrage'. 
Plans for a table dancing club in Worcester are set to be withdrawn in response to public 'outrage', but the applicant is still looking to open a club elsewhere in the city. 
Dancers could be forced by morality police to cover-up and wear G-strings if they are women and posing pouches if they are men at a proposed table dancing club in Worcester. 