Compromise over Colchester's lapdance club hours (From Gazette)
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Compromise over Colchester's lapdance club hours
2:00pm Tuesday 14th February 2012 in Colchester
A COMPROMISE could be reached over plans to extend the opening hours of Colchester’s only lapdance club.
Residents and councillors have opposed an application by the owners of Heaven Gentleman’s Club, in St Botolph’s Street, to stay open until 4am. Topless dancers perform at the club, which opened in 2009, five nights a week until 2am.
Councillors Bill Frame and Henry Spyvee said while they had no complaints from neighbours about the club, it would exacerbate problems with late-night rowdiness in the area.
Owner Jason Newell has agreed to revise his application so Heaven would stay open until 3am on Fridays and Saturdays.
The two Lib Dems have agreed to withdraw their opposition to the bid, which will be ruled on by a licensing committee at Colchester Town Hall on Friday.
Mr Spyvee said: “It’s not unreasonable in the circumstances and I don’t think it will add much to the problems that we already have in the town.”
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taffyapple84
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3:24pm Tue 14 Feb 12
TheCaptain
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3:47pm Tue 14 Feb 12
Colonel Kurtz
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4:10pm Tue 14 Feb 12
taffyapple84
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4:15pm Tue 14 Feb 12
The Yellow Peril
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4:16pm Tue 14 Feb 12
taffyapple84
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4:32pm Tue 14 Feb 12
romantic
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4:34pm Tue 14 Feb 12
I´m sure nobody would want their daughter working there, but the world´s not a perfect place and people do what they can to get by. Probably better to have what is, it seems, a well managed place, than drive it all underground. Girls get better protection that way (I hope so, anyway).
Taximan01
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4:38pm Tue 14 Feb 12
taffyapple84 wrote:taffy, have you ever seen\heard the nnoise womme make when ey come out of a hen nigt do? they're 10 times noisier than the people coming out of Heaven!& from what I've hard, it's £20 to ge in & £20 per dance, so that tends to cut the cavy element out staight away & Ivpicked loads of people up fom there & they've gone in with mates on sa nights or birthdays for a laugh or a bit of harmless fun. I don't think I've ever seen trouble outside there, unlike High Street !
There's nothing Gentlemanly about these sorts of clubs. And why the need to extend the hours? You can bet your bottom dollar at kicking out time there'd be drunken trouble. Will they pay a police subsidy for this? What ever next.
taffyapple84
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4:47pm Tue 14 Feb 12
Taximan01 wrote:Maybe not yet Taximano1, but the extended hours will see the strays from High Street pop by and top up their alcohol levels for the journey home.
taffyapple84 wrote:taffy, have you ever seen\heard the nnoise womme make when ey come out of a hen nigt do? they're 10 times noisier than the people coming out of Heaven!& from what I've hard, it's £20 to ge in & £20 per dance, so that tends to cut the cavy element out staight away & Ivpicked loads of people up fom there & they've gone in with mates on sa nights or birthdays for a laugh or a bit of harmless fun. I don't think I've ever seen trouble outside there, unlike High Street !
There's nothing Gentlemanly about these sorts of clubs. And why the need to extend the hours? You can bet your bottom dollar at kicking out time there'd be drunken trouble. Will they pay a police subsidy for this? What ever next.
jut1972
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7:55pm Tue 14 Feb 12
They can drink late in plenty of places with much more relaxed door policies.
Sdapeze
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1:45pm Wed 15 Feb 12
wellnow says...
2:11pm Tue 14 Feb 12