Hi all
Just an update for those of you who were interested.
A licensing sub-committee consisting of three men in their late 60s/early 70s decided to grant the licence for Urban Tiger in Bristol yesterday, despite 57 objections from residents, the university feminist society, the City Canon, gender violence experts etc etc.
The company had the top licensing barrister in the country acting for them - the man who worked with Object to push the SEV legislation through.
The company wheeled out an "independent" private investigator - a retired police officer, whom they had paid to observe the club inside and out and he reported back to the committee at least 3 times in the 30 minutes I was there that there were no problems inside and outside the club (yes, we were all very surprised at this startling revelation). There was slight touch of his knee by a lap dancer's head when he was having a private dance but that was purely accidental apparently - though what her head was doing down by his knee we can only speculate!
We presented several reasons why the licence should be refused - inappropriate location, failure to disclose relevant information on the application form, mismanagement of another club in Southampton which they closed a week before the application in Bristol went in, and which left several businesses in the area owed money. Despite that, they could afford to pay the top licensing barrister in the country, who will have been on several thousand a day, to come and put their case.
It was really disappointing that the licensing committee members didn't take on board anything we had said to them or have been saying for years now. They did grant the licence but with conditions so that's one good thing. The club were trying to operate with a reduced number of CCTV cameras in the private booths but we think that's been refused though will have to wait for the papers to be issued.
Thanks to everyone who was supportive when I last posted!
The next and last hearing is for Temptations in Old Market on 17th October at 11am at City Hall so for those who are interested please do come along to the public gallery and be a "body in the room".
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