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News April 2013:

Poster proved too sexy for the advert censors of the ASA

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.

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.

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.

News May 2018: Videoing without consent

Camden council is looking into claims against Spearmint Rhino by the Not Buying It feminsit group which sent in two former police detectives to gather video evidence in February.

The two investigators claim they were straddled by dancers who touched themselves intimately. One of the men said he was told he could touch dancers sexually if they paid an extra £20.

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.

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.

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.

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

News April 2013:

The owner is looking to establish a 2nd Tantric Blue, taking over Black Diamond in Leeds

News May 2013:

Established for 60 years but now sold to the Secrets chain who will convert the club to their table dancing format.

From Browns, January 2017: City Institution

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.

Browns is an over 21 venue .

News May 2019: License renewed

The licence was renewed albeit with issues raised about a lack of a written policy document and cigarette buts littering from patrons taking a break outside.

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

News November 2015: License Renewed

And the licence was duly renewed with noting any further details of the entertainment on offer.

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.

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

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.

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.

News October 2016: Too much fun

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.

News September 2013: Dancing stopped pending licence renewal

See article from strippingtheillusion.blogspot.com

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.

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

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

News September 2013: Licence Renewed

No apparent fuss for the annual licence renewal

News September 2020: Replaced

The club is set to be superceded by the nearby Gentleman Jacks located at the old Theatre Royal.

News April 2015: Mentioned in Dispatches

The club marginally made the news due to nearby assault.

News September 2018: Retrospective planning permission granted

See article from strippingtheillusion.blogspot.com

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 favour of the club and it said it creates a positive impact on the night time economy. The directorate also order the council to pay the club's costs.

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.

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.

News July 2018: Lap dancing licence garnted

See article from birminghammail.co.uk

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.

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.

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.

News April 2019: Relocating

There are plans to open a new lap dancing club in Birmingham's business district. La Belle's would be based on Newhall Street near the junction with Great Charles Street Queensway, and open between 8pm to 6am seven days a week.

The application for a Sexual Entertainment Venue licence has been submitted to Birmingham City Council by Michelle Monaghan who runs The Cyclone Club on Broad Street and Scarlets at Horse Fair. If successful Ms Monaghan said she would surrender her licence for Scarlets which has been forced to close multiple times in recent years due to staffing problems and structural issues with the building.

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.

News April 2014: Renewal

Licence renewal is being discussed by Birmingham Council

News November 2018: Warning

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 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.

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.

News July 2020: Continuing after licence hearing

A Blackpool lap dancing club has been allowed to keep its licence after councillors dismissed unsubstantiated allegations against the operator.

The licensee appeared before a meeting of the council's public protection sub-committee after an objection was received to his application to renew the sexual entertainment venue licence at Sinless on Central Promenade.

The meeting heard allegations had been made against Mr Newton that he had acted inappropriately towards female performers, encouraged drug taking and allowed under-age drinking and performing.

The authority found no evidence to back up the claims.

News July 2013: Licence renewed

The licences for the 4 existing table dancing venues in Blackpool have been renewed

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

News May 2022: Licence renewal

The club's licence annual renewal is being contested by a morlist councillor.

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.

The bar is facing opposition fro its licence renewal from miserable police who have reported that the dancers have been a little too sexy.

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.

News September 2019: Kicked into touch

A sponsorship deal where by Platinum Lace would sponsor Worthing Rugby Club was scuppered after the inevitable Facebook campaign by people 'outraged" by the rugby club being associated with lap dancing

News November 2013: Licence renewal

Objections by 28th November 2013.

News September 2021: Licence Renewed

Licensing sub-committee members were told 67 objections had been received to Central Chambers' renewal application.

A council licensing officer told the panel there were no statutory grounds for refusal, and the panel ruled there was also no reason to reject the licence on discretionary grounds, such as the club's location or the applicants' suitability.

So the licence was duly granted for another 12 months.

News February 2020: Licence Renewed

The licence was renewed for Central Chambers despite a few objections. The licence permits topless and fully nude performances.

Central Chambers also runs naked life-drawing classes on Saturdays that does not require a licence. The bar noted that this was so popular that the club was considering opening on Monday nights for them.

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

News January 2019: On occasion

The venue lost its licence in 2017 when a topless dancer apparently put her hand down a man's trousers. The club is continuing with occasional events (typically monthly).

News February 2020: Licence Renewed

The licence was renewed for Urban Tiger despite a few objections. The licence permits topless and fully nude performances.

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

News form For Your Eyes Only, August 2018: Moving

FYEO Cardiff moved venue in 2018.

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.

News January 2024: Licence renewal

The venues has applied for a licence renewal allowing it to open on the weeks of major horse racing days.

News August 2014

Club Heat was mentioned in the news as an incident involving a violent assault outside the club reached the courts.

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.

News May 2014: Bouncers bounced

The club made the news when a court found a man guilty of assaulting two bouncers working at the club.

News December 2017: Court

The bar made the news after a burglary case in the club came to court.

News February 2020: Art

The bar has organised an evening art class for the 3rd March 2020. The flyer doesn't actually say but presumably there may be some nude models available.

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.

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

Scottish police raided the venue after some supposed connection with trafficking. Inevitably they found nothing.

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.

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 2022: Licence renewed

Glasgow's three lap dancing venues were given licences this week, after councillors decided that no new clubs could open in the city.

Seventh Heaven, Diamond Dolls and Platinum Lace were granted three-year sexual entertainment venue (SEVs) licences by the city council, after the three were given grandfather rights.

News January 2017: Temporarily closed

Diamonds Dolls has had its licence suspended for a period 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.

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 danlwhich 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.

News August 2023: Moving

Due to end of lease Seventh Heaven is set to move to another central location at 95 Hope Street.

News October 2020: Locked down

The club is still licensed but closed to the covid lock down. The club sent out warning signals over the economic effects of the lock down.

News August 2019: Not later

Glasgow council turned down an application to open until 4am with last orders at 3am

News, September 2018: Police raid

Strippers were left terrified when police and immigration officials swooped on the Glasgow lap dancing club Seventh Heaven.

A Police Scotland spokesman said: All was in order at the premises, with no offences detected.

News April 2014

Owner Billy Peterkin was killed in a traffic accident in Spain on his stag do.

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.

News February 2014: Still going

Noted in the papers as still operating.

News May 2013: Bought out

Looks set to close as the freehold has been bought by the hotel above which doesn't appreciate the noise.

News March 2021: Licence renewed

The council renewed the licence this year noting that there had been no significant changes to circumstances from the same debate and decision taken the previous year.

News February 2019: Appeal

The licensing council will reconsider the licence application on 7th March 2019.

News December 2018: Licence refused

The council has refused annual licence renewal. Councillors were told they are not allowed to reject a licence on moral grounds so the application was refused on grounds the applicant was unsuitable to hold a licence and that a sex entertainment premises at Silver Street would be inappropriate having regard to the character of the relevant locality. They were additionally told the Ebenezer Church on St James Road is also opposite the club.

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.

News May 2021: Ever more restrictions

Harrogate Council dreamt further restrictions for 2021 but these were dropped when the venue filed to oppose them in a legal action.

The dropped rules were to ban the dancers from accepting alcoholic drinks from customers and to demand that dancers were paid via BACS rather than by cash.

News April 2019: Miserable objections but licence renewed

The bars annual licence renewal resulted in objections from miserable feminists. However the council granted a licence with the proviso that the club logged rule breeches by customers and fitted a panic alarm for the dancers.

News April 2021: Licence application

The bar has applied to continue lap dancing from Thursday to Saturday.

News November 2014:

The bar was mentioned in passing in news story about a presumably unconnected assault outside of the bar.

News, May 2020: Licence renewal

As in previous years, the local council has received a few objections to licence renewal. These don't look likely to go very far has the venue has been given a clean bill of health by council planners and police.

Promotional Material: One of Britain's oldest Strip Pubs

The White Horse has presented striptease dancers for over 22 years, and we continue this tradition today with top striptease dancers performing every lunchtime and on Wednesday evenings. Bar 95 is now open, with dancers on Thursday, Friday and Saturday evenings from 7.00pm until 2.00am.

Here, in a pleasant and relaxed setting, you can see Southern England's top dancers, with a mix of dancers from all over the world.

There is no admission charge for daytime or Wednesday evening shows, low drink prices and fabulous glittering shows from Monday to Saturday .

Offsite review August 2017: Offsite

See We visited Cleopatra's lap dancing club for the first time and this is what it was like. From examiner.co.uk

News May 2016: Smashing

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.

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

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

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

News December 2013: Hours extension granted

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: Open

Hush opened for table dancing on 18th July 2013.

News May 2013: Hushed up application

News October 2018: Application

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.

News October 2013: Licence renewed

Warwick District Council's licensing committee narrowly voted to renew the license for Shades. The moralists were well miffed.

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.

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.

News November 2019: Licence renewal

No complaints or objections have been raised prior to licence renewal, which was duly granted

Leeds Council moralists decided that club were lucky and could continue operating

News November 2019: Licence renewal

Whilst applying for a licence renewal the club has asked for an extra hour of opening in the early morning. The licence renewal was granted but the extra hour was denied

News December 2013: Luck of the Draw

Leeds Council moralists decided that club were lucky and could continue operating

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.

News October 2019: Moralist objection

Chasers is applying to Leicester City Council to renew its sexual entertainment venue (SEV) licence. There has only been one objection, from Helen Everett and Denis Walsh of the Leicester branch of the Women's Equality Party.

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.

News June 2013: Nil Policy

Worries for the bar as the local council opens a public consultation on a nil policy on adult entertainment venue.

News January 2020: Moved

The club moved from Cumberland Street to Princes Street in 2019.

The Venue at 18 Cumberland Street has been bought by another company who are applying for a licence for a new lap dancing club.

Offsite Review September 2018: Inside female friendly lap dancing club owned by mum trying to show glamorous side of industry

See article from mirror.co.uk

The owner says workers at the club celebrate their beauty, confidence and power and that both men and women are welcome

News November 2015: Flats

A planning application has been made to the council to convert the building hosting Rude into student flats

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'.

News March 2015: Competition

The bar complained to Liverpool Council about competition from a new club proposed by X in the City

The club has submitted a licence renewal and it has sparked a few morality complaints about whether Maidenhead is the 'right' place for a lap dancing club.

News May 2013: Licence Renewed

Licence renewed despite local christian opposition

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.

News February 2019: Licence renewed

The club has had its licence renewed

News April 2019: Victims of a sting

See article from manchestereveningnews.co.uk

Two private detectives posed as customers at Manchester lap dancing clubs with view to exposing sexy goings on in private dances. An aggressive feminist campaign called Not Buying It have presented a report of the pair's findings, including video footage, to Manchester City Council.

The private investigators, spent up to £80 a time on lap dances at Victoria's, at Dantzic Street, and Obsessions, at Whitworth Street West, before recording details of their encounters with the women.

The campaigners claim that what went on at the clubs during the course of the private investigation not only breached the venues' own rules but amounted to sexual contact with punters - behaviour which they claim would breach licensing rules. Other reports add that the campaigners are describing the claimed sexual contact to be 'foreplay'.

News December 2017: Licence renewal

The club has submitted a licence renewal.

News April 2019: Victims of a sting

See article from manchestereveningnews.co.uk

Two private detectives posed as customers at Manchester lap dancing clubs with view to exposing sexy goings on in private dances. An aggressive feminist campaign called Not Buying It have presented a report of the pair's findings, including video footage, to Manchester City Council.

The private investigators, spent up to £80 a time on lap dances at Victoria's, at Dantzic Street, and Obsessions, at Whitworth Street West, before recording details of their encounters with the women.

The campaigners claim that what went on at the clubs during the course of the private investigation not only breached the venues' own rules but amounted to sexual contact with punters - behaviour which they claim would breach licensing rules. Other reports add that the campaigners are describing the claimed sexual contact to be 'foreplay'.

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.

News February 2023: Licence renewed

The local council renewed the licence with little concern. In the licensing hearing the bars connections explained:

We try very hard to be fully inclusive of both male, female and the LGBT community, featuring dedicated burlesque shows, corporate events, fundraisers, fashion shows and immersive intimate forms in a well-presented boutique venue.

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.

News, August 2016: Not later

A request to extend opening hours until 5:30am was denied by the Newcastle Council

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.

News, August 2016: Later

A request to extend opening hours until 5:30am was denied by the Newcastle Council

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

News December 2019: Flexible hours

Northampton Council has granted Urban Tiger extended flexible opening hours:

• 6pm - 4:30am Monday-Wednesday
• 6pm - 6am Thursday - Saturday
• 6pm - 2:30m Sunday

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.

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.

News January 2019: Re-opening

Currently closed but has now applied to the council to re-open.

News September 2019: Licence renewal application

Platinum Lace has applied for a licence renewal with the slight trepidation that Norwich Council have been talking about limiting the number oc clubs in town to 3 when there are currently 4.

News August 2021: Later opening

Pure Gold has been granted permission to remain open until 6am.

Norwich City Council's licensing committee unanimously agreed to extend opening times. It means the club can remain open until 6am every day, rather than the current 4am closing time.

However, people will not be allowed to enter the club after 3.45am, which is also the time when the serving of alcoholic drinks must end.

News March 2018: Licence appication approved

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.

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.

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.

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.