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Bid to get Southampton's Leisure World strip club licence refused

5:40am Wednesday 20th May 2009 in News

A pole dancer A pole dancer

SWISS banking giant UBS is fighting plans for a strip club at its own Leisure World complex in Southampton.

The new lap-dancing club would be squeezed between two family restaurants.

It would offer pole dancing classes until 9pm when strippers will provide adult entertainment until 5am for up to 140 punters.

But UBS fears the families and young adults could be deterred from visiting its restaurants and cinema.

UBS wants councillors to throw out a licence application citing other councils who have experienced an increase in crime and disorder.

It warns the club could attract potential public nuisances to the area such as unlicensed taxis, pimps and prostitutes.

And UBS claims the proposal would harm the development of children through the “overt promotion of sexual activities”.

Male and female dancers are already being recruited for the lap and pole-dancing club which would create up to 29 local jobs.

It will occupy the former Brand bar, previously Bambuubar, between Ask and Frankie & Benny’s restaurants.

Carl Farrely from Farehambased Glamour Bars Limited, the firm behind the proposal, said he was taking a sub-lease on the unit from Rank Entertainment.

Mr Farrely said the complex was already an adult entertainment venue by night with a casino. He said there was no evidence from the city’s existing strip club, For Your Eyes Only, that another would attract problems such as prostitution, and said flyers would be “classy looking with no naked ladies”.

He said: “For Your Eyes Only is a very good role model to follow.

“They’ve had it their own way but competition will put up standards.”

Southampton councillors will decide whether to grant a licence on Thursday.

Comments(16)

SomersetSaint says...
8:15am Wed 20 May 09

Ah, so that's what 'A pole dancer' looks like?!!

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Shoong says...
8:36am Wed 20 May 09

Anybody who thinks that these clubs attract prostitutes is on cloud cuckoo land.

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Rudd Gillett says...
8:37am Wed 20 May 09

Male pole dancers???WTF!

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MartinWellbourne says...
9:05am Wed 20 May 09

"But UBS fears the families and young adults could be deterred from visiting its restaurants and cinema"

Ironic considering some of the films advertised down there.

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aliscan66 says...
10:57am Wed 20 May 09

Im sure loads of people would love to go and see that troll-dancer...sorry
, pole-dancer!!

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gorf says...
11:20am Wed 20 May 09

who cares, just let them open it.

its not as if the kids will be able to see the dancers through the windows!

I VOTE YES, OPEN IT!

what would you vote?

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Tom Bargate says...
11:26am Wed 20 May 09

I read the application and it all sounds a bit sad. Customers pay a woman to dance next to their table. At the end of the dance she would be "briefly nude". What's the point? There's no shortage of nude images available if that's what you want. Or, of course, you could try and form a relationship with a real live human being. But paying someone (I don't know how much but I suspect it's more than a fiver) for 30 seconds of nudity seems to exploit both the woman and the sad man parting with his cash.

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Georgem says...
11:36am Wed 20 May 09

Tom Bargate wrote:
I read the application and it all sounds a bit sad. Customers pay a woman to dance next to their table. At the end of the dance she would be "briefly nude". What's the point? There's no shortage of nude images available if that's what you want. Or, of course, you could try and form a relationship with a real live human being. But paying someone (I don't know how much but I suspect it's more than a fiver) for 30 seconds of nudity seems to exploit both the woman and the sad man parting with his cash.
I don't see how the women are being exploited. Most of them earn more than you or I do. I think, from the outside, the perception is that this is some sad pursuit by lonely men who can't form relationships, but the truth is there's a whole spectrum of clientele that use these places, and a lot of them are in happy relationships, usually there with the full prior knowledge of their partner. That you cannot fathom that doesn't change that fact. It's just a bit of boisterous, testosterone-led fun

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anonem says...
11:40am Wed 20 May 09

I don't see any reason why they shouldn't open it. With Oceana so close they will most likely make a lot of money. If everything that people want is situated in one place there will be less reason for people to be out in the street causing trouble.

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DinkDankDoo says...
12:31pm Wed 20 May 09

Kids are more likely to see stuff throught the door of Ann Summers than these kind of places. It all down to the 'do good' club being over protective. It's not as though you will see scantily clad dancers (female or male) outside trying to entice people in is it?

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shilo says...
1:29pm Wed 20 May 09

Only Poles need apply

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Something to comment on says...
4:26pm Wed 20 May 09

Have you been in Oceana? Probably see nearly as much in there as you would in a strip club, and its for free, which says a lot about Oceana's female clientele...

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Something to comment on says...
4:26pm Wed 20 May 09

Have you been in Oceana? Probably see nearly as much in there as you would in a strip club, and its for free, which says a lot about Oceana's female clientele...

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thesouth says...
6:39pm Wed 20 May 09

MartinWellbourne wrote:
"But UBS fears the families and young adults could be deterred from visiting its restaurants and cinema" Ironic considering some of the films advertised down there.
like what

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Montymontymonty says...
12:27am Thu 28 May 09

The new lap-dancing club would be squeezed between two family restaurants.

It would offer pole dancing classes until 9pm when strippers will provide adult entertainment until 5am for up to 140 punters.


Hmmm...nice to see The Echo has dumbed down for this story. Are these "punters" the same ones who prop up the bar at The Queen Victoria on the Beeb?

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Montymontymonty says...
12:31am Thu 28 May 09

oh...and so glad a legend was printed under the photograph. "A pole dancer" eh? Still, I know what to look for now....

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