Threat to Leeds clubs

[Victor23]

Deadline for receipt of objections is October 24th:

Some of the usual unsubstantiated claims are repeated

here


Vic

[The Great Smell Of Brute]

Dear, oh dear: the debunked claims made by Lilith and Bindel, which even Object, UK Feminista and Eaves no longer repeat!

Some people seem to be hopelessly ill-informed, thoroughly dishonest, or both.

[Victor23]

"Research" can show anything that the researcher - or the people that commission it - want. The results of my own "research" might be considered interesting!

Vic

[Victor23]

Article

on Leeds clubs seeking licence renewals.

Such applications happen all the time, of course, but I'm posting because two very relevant appended comments:

1. about the council (in)activity against the illegal sex trade and street prostitution etc

2. about "sex venues" being an inappropriate name, because it's looking and not touching. I sometimes allude ungallantly to the ordinariness of rather too many dancers, but are councils going to close down public beaches because one can look at some very attractive girls wearing very little on them?

Vic

[venus100]

Just seen this come up on stripping the illusion twitter feed

http://sevlicensing.wordpress.com/2014/ ... al-review/

[The Great Smell Of Brute]

Latest article on the Stripping The Illusion blog, regarding the hand-picked 'Citizens' Panel', and spurious attempts to link striptease venues with violent and sexual crime:

Councils Talk About Impact Analysis? (Stripping The Illusion, 22/03/15)


Personally, I think that this needs to be followed up with a formal Freedom of Information Request to Leeds City Council.

[The Great Smell Of Brute]

The Yorkshire Evening Post has published an article commenting about the city centre units left empty by the closure of the three clubs, and a possible link between the timing of their closure and the Tour de France through Leeds:

Time for some naked ambition over former Leeds lapdancing venues? (Yorkshire Evening Post, 19/04/15)


With two of the three club sites still lying vacant, what's been the economic cost of a moral cruscade?

[Victor23]

fees too high?

[The Great Smell Of Brute]

Who are the pimps now, eh?

[sinless69uk]

Interesting that Leeds now has a permanent red light district.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/ ... urder.html

[The Great Smell Of Brute]

Oh, the irony!

[Victor23]

Leeds clubs face objection

A very familiar story that we've seen and read so many times.

[Victor23]

NO objections received to licence renewal applications by Liberté and Purple Door!

[TonyN]

License renewal granted to both.

https://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/ ... il-1303439

[Victor23]

Echoing my post of November 2019 above:

Whisky Down and Silks licence applications: neither have attracted any objections from members of the public, authorities or campaigners.

Yorkshire Evening Post

[pleasure_seeker]

Yorkshire Evening post article about the three remaining clubs in Leeds..

"In 2013, Leeds City Council effectively launched a cull on the industry in the city, closing three venues. Only four strip clubs are now allowed to run in the city at any one time, though at present just three have licences to operate... there were no objections to the city’s three strip clubs at each of their last licencing hearings."

The three clubs are Liberte, Purple Door, Whiskey Down.

[sinless69uk]

Interesting that there have been few objections since the cull. It's almost as if, once people know their city isn't going be overrun with clubs and that they won't be allowed in sensitive locations, most people are fairly OK with clubs. The law has worked better in Leeds than I feared 10 years ago. Touches wood.