Sex Cinemas in London

New Cross' famed sex cinema opened its doors for business again. Club 487, in New Cross Road, was reportedly a hotbed of orgies and group romps, with x-rated movies screened to customers.

Last October, the council ordered the porn palace shut its doors for good following a licencing review. They revoked the licence after finding the premises were indeed being used as a sex cinema, or sex establishment, and naughty videos were being shown.

But now owner Peter Jones is appealing the decision, allowing the venue to remain open until a hearing in front of a magistrate at a hearing set for July.

The club now has its own website up and running, where it's described as:

Focused on providing the best films and meeting accommodation with the highest levels of customer satisfaction & we will do everything we can to meet your expectations.

The New Cross sex cinema, Club 487, has had its license revoked by the miserable Lewisham Council.

There were reports of hard-core pornography being shown while customers pleasured themselves - and each other.

After a police raid in March , manager Peter Jones applied for a license in April, previously stating the venue was nothing more than a private members club . He told News Shopper:

People think they can come here and have sex like that. It's not like that. But what's wrong with it if there was? They're all over 21.

The council initially granted a license with a host of suffocating conditions, including installing CCTV in all rooms except the bathroom and only showing under-18 films.

In a council meeting on October 20 councillors deemed the basement was, in fact, being used as a sex cinema and R18 movies were being screened, something which needed a further license. Coun Janet Dab said:

We expect all licensed businesses in Lewisham to operate responsibly and to comply with licencing conditions. Club 487 clearly flouted these and the consequence was the loss of their licence.

A New Cross sex cinema has surprisingly been granted a licence to show films but with miserable licence restrictions designed to make it unviable.

Club 487, discreetly located behind the doors of an old New Cross Road printing shop at 487 New Cross Road , has been running unlicensed since the turn of the year, charging punters £15 a time to watch explicit films and pleasure themselves in the basement. And, as News Shopper found, the audience even have sex with each other.

Following a police raid, a licensing application to show movies was finally submitted in late April, with manager Peter Jones billing the venue as an adult environment for people meet/socialise .

And, following a brief discussion at a Catford town hall licensing committee last night (June 2), the club was granted a licence to show films. However, there were a number of restrictions designed to make to the cinema unviable.

Firstly, the licence only allows the club to show films with a certificate from 18 down to U. And the club must also agree to maintain CCTV of every room inside the premises except the toilets, keeping copies of the tapes for 31 days.

Leaving the town hall, heavily-tattooed cinema manager Jones would only say: I'm pleased.

Despite recent publicity around the cinema, just two people had objected to the licence.

An unlicensed sex cinema in New Cross, billed as the last of its kind in London, has now applied to become a fully licensed club.

Club 487 was reportedly set up by the proprietors of porn cinema Mr B's in Finsbury, which closed down in July last year by the council for being too sexy.

The new club still has the facade of an old print shop on the outside, but past the double doors is a small black ticket office that appears freshly painted. Customers pay £15 to sample the cinema's explicit movies on multiple screens in a variety of different rooms.

The club manager told Eastlondonlines:

The council came down a few weeks ago and told us that we need a license. We're now applying for that.

The alleged sexual activities inside the club were snitched up by a News Shopper undercover report that gave a graphic account of men pleasuring themselves and customers having sex in front of the screen.

After a police raid at the New Cross Road cinema on February 19 it reopened on February 24 with a license application posted on the front door.