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Re: Threat to Leeds clubs
Posted: Thu Oct 10, 2013 6:13 am
by Victor23
Deadline for receipt of objections is October 24th:
Some of the usual unsubstantiated claims are repeated
here
Vic
Re: Threat to Leeds clubs
Posted: Thu Oct 10, 2013 12:44 pm
by 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.
Re: Threat to Leeds clubs
Posted: Fri Oct 11, 2013 9:37 am
by 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
Re: Threat to Leeds clubs
Posted: Tue Nov 12, 2013 7:14 pm
by 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
Re: Threat to Leeds clubs
Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2014 1:59 pm
by venus100
Just seen this come up on stripping the illusion twitter feed
http://sevlicensing.wordpress.com/2014/ ... al-review/
Re: Threat to Leeds clubs
Posted: Sun Mar 22, 2015 11:38 am
by 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.
Re: Threat to Leeds clubs
Posted: Mon Apr 20, 2015 12:41 pm
by 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?
Re: Threat to Leeds clubs
Posted: Wed Jul 08, 2015 6:32 pm
by Victor23
Re: Threat to Leeds clubs
Posted: Thu Jul 09, 2015 12:53 pm
by The Great Smell Of Brute
Who are the pimps now, eh?
Re: Threat to Leeds clubs
Posted: Tue Jan 12, 2016 5:39 pm
by sinless69uk
Interesting that Leeds now has a permanent red light district.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/ ... urder.html
Re: Threat to Leeds clubs
Posted: Wed Jan 13, 2016 6:10 pm
by The Great Smell Of Brute
Oh, the irony!
Re: Threat to Leeds clubs
Posted: Sun Nov 13, 2016 5:53 am
by Victor23
Leeds clubs face objection
A very familiar story that we've seen and read so many times.
Re: Threat to Leeds clubs
Posted: Sat Nov 09, 2019 5:30 pm
by Victor23
Re: Threat to Leeds clubs
Posted: Wed Nov 20, 2019 8:29 am
by TonyN
Re: Threat to Leeds clubs
Posted: Mon Aug 17, 2020 5:20 pm
by 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
Re: Threat to Leeds clubs
Posted: Wed Apr 12, 2023 6:04 pm
by 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.
Re: Threat to Leeds clubs
Posted: Wed Apr 12, 2023 8:29 pm
by 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.