CONTROVERSIAL plans to turn a notorious former Hampshire nightclub into a lap dancing venue will go before councillors on Friday.
The owners of the Prague Junction in Fareham town centre want to offer adult entertainment at the club, which closed in 2006 after being open for nine years.
Police were regularly called to the club, opposite Fareham train station, with reports of fighting, vandalism, noise disturbance and even revellers urinating in doorways.
In 2004, the Junction's door staff became the first in Hampshire to be issued with handcuffs in a bid to help them deal with trouble makers.
But that year campaigners successfully opposed plans to extend the 500-person capacity club's weekend opening hours from 2am to 4am.
Time was eventually called on the nightspot because the owners were losing money in the face of increased competition from other town centre venues and has remained empty since.
The plans to relaunch it as a strip club will be heard by Fareham Borough Council's three-strong licensing panel on Friday.
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