Sex and lap dancing clubs will be barred from Basingstoke

3:37pm Tuesday 29th January 2013 in Basingstoke

SEX shops, lap dancing joints, and strip clubs are set to be banned from Basingstoke town centre.

Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council licensing councillors will tomorrow be asked to approve the council's Sex Establishment Policy which sets a “nil limit” for sex clubs in the town centre, as well as Basing View.

The document also includes strict rules for any potential new club outside this area.

A report by the council's licensing manager Linda Cannon for the borough's Licensing Committee states the recommended conditions are also stringent enough to block sex establishments outside the town centre.

The report says: “The licensing authority is unaware of any localities within this borough where it would be appropriate for a licensed sex establishment to be situated.”

In the policy, an application for a sex establishment would be turned down if it was near a school, place of worship, homes, public buildings, anywhere were “children would be put at risk”, or a borough conservation area.

The ten councillors on the committee have been asked to approve the policy before it is adopted by the 60-strong full council in March.

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Comments(11)

kieranh says...
2:28pm Wed 30 Jan 13

Okay, you don't want it in the town centre, that's fair enough you have to think of the youngsters. but ruling it out of the entire town sounds abit harsh to me, it can give local men and women jobs, which there is a major shortage of at this point in time, it could give people an incentive to visit basingstoke for a taste of the nightlife, which at the minute is extremely poor to say the least, there are some cons aswell as the pros but i really think they should think this through before catergorising such establishments in a bad way, some of the most beautiful cities in the world have stripclubs, there is nothing demiening about it at all, Dublin, Galway (I know this is not a capital city but it is a very beautiful city and county which brings alot of tourism to Ireland,) Rome, Washington, London the list goes on. Basingstoke can hardly get any worse so at least give these establishments a trial run at minimum and if it dosent work turn it into another normal nightclub, this not only create jobs, but to put something more into the town as it is getting worse and worse and when ideas like this pop up they are dismissed for the completly wrong reason's sometimes I wonder if our council actually think things through at all.

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ELLIS17 says...
4:04pm Wed 30 Jan 13

Sadly many councils fall in to the same trap, one policy fits all, never thinking beyond the "now" never looking to the future consequences of their decisions.
The likely outcome of this ban is a legal challenge in the courts from a company wishing to open a club or shop within the Town centre area. We the council tax payers are then left to pick up the legal services bill, whilst the original council committee sit back and tell us they were only doing what "they" thought was right and proper for Basingstoke. Councils need to engage more with the residents on such issues.

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alan partridge says...
8:50am Thu 31 Jan 13

AHA!

Looks like the local MP's and Councillors will have to go to London to be whipped and humiliated.

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JJ38JJ says...
8:51am Thu 31 Jan 13

"In the policy, an application for a sex establishment would be turned down if it was near a school, place of worship, homes, public buildings, anywhere were “children would be put at risk”, or a borough conservation area."

Who writes these policies? Homes and schools - well OK fair enough. But why should religious people have a monopoly and what exactly is the risk to conservation areas? It makes you laugh don't it?

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JJ38JJ says...
8:53am Thu 31 Jan 13

alan partridge wrote:
AHA! Looks like the local MP's and Councillors will have to go to London to be whipped and humiliated.
The MP for Basingstoke has no need to be whipped. She always toes the party line.

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laurence86 says...
1:52pm Fri 1 Feb 13

Does this mean they will have to close the Ann Summers?
The idea that these strip establishments could damage children is ludicrous, are our Councillors worried that children will wander in by accident! In the UK such establishments have no outward display and have door staff enforcing age limits, so I can’t see how this would affect children. Perhaps our Councillors are more worried that they won’t be able to keep their partners out of the establishments?
I think more damaging to a child is the idea that sex is wrong and it that it should be repressed. Be open and honest with children, their young minds have a far greater capacity to accept than our adult minds.

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kenilworth road resident says...
9:01pm Fri 1 Feb 13

Boringstoke !!!!

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musicmaestro11 says...
12:20am Sat 2 Feb 13

JJ38JJ wrote:
alan partridge wrote:
AHA! Looks like the local MP's and Councillors will have to go to London to be whipped and humiliated.
The MP for Basingstoke has no need to be whipped. She always toes the party line.
Yeah toes the line when it comes to claiming fraudulent expenses!!

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musicmaestro11 says...
12:22am Sat 2 Feb 13

So next step is to close down all the brothels in Basingstoke? Or does the council just turn a blind eye to that because they are illegal trades? you only have to walk into a certain bright yellow and blue block of flats in town to be offered all sorts of services.....what are they doing to stop these?

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privateryan65 says...
9:33am Sat 2 Feb 13

@musicmaestro11.....
seriously!?...well thats Saturday night sorted then, cheers fella!!! hahahaha

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gazettey says...
8:31pm Mon 4 Feb 13

No wonder we get called Boringstoke..!! LOL

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