UK Lap Dancing and Strip Clubs C

News form For Your Eyes Only, August 2018: Moving

FYEO Cardiff moved venue in 2018.

News October 2013: Morality Zone

Central Bedfordshire Council has banned table dancing and sex cinemas by imposing a 500m exclusion zone around most buildings including residential areas. Sex shops have been excluded from the restrictions.

News March 2018: On the occasion of Cheltenham races

The club opened for business after the first day's racing as occasional opening is allowed without a licence.

News February 2017: Fillies banned from Cheltenham

An application for sexual entertainment venue licence at the Fantasy Club, 12-14 Bath Road was rejected.

About 20 objections were lodged against lap dancing club plan. The licensing committee voted 3-1 to refuse the application on the grounds that the premises were in a supposedly inappropriate location.

The committee heard objections from an opposition alliance made up of Councillor Flo Lucas, St Paul's Residents' Association Chair Tess Beck and Lesley Painter of local feminist group, Chelt Fems. Painter argued that Cheltenham Borough Council should follow in the steps of high-profile international organisations such as Formula 1, who axed scantily clad grid girls from their events last year.

This is the first time in three year's that the The Fantasy Club has been refused a licence. The club was granted a licence for lap dancing in 2017 and 2016.

Fantasy Gentlemen's Club has been given permission to continue running for another year.

More than 25 people wrote in to Cheltenham Borough Council with their objections, claiming the location was inappropriate and it detracted from the character and appeal of the local area.

But the applicants said the club has run for a year with little or no trouble. Gloucestershire Constabulary said it had no incidents to report.

News January 2015: Battle Lines

Fantasy has applied for a licence renewal and a couple of miserable campaigners have intimated that they would consider another campaign against the club.

News June 2014: Fantasy

The venue previously intended to be Blue Diamond has now been sold to new owners. The bar will now open as Fantasy Gentlemen's Club and will open on 19th June 2014. It is associated with Fantasy Club in Swindon.

News February 2014: Licence approved

The council approved the licence. There were 200 letters of opposition but mostly on unallowed moralist grounds.

Local residents are inevitably aghast that anyone has dared to propose a table dancing club in Cheltenham

Campaigners say it would not be an appropriate venue, it would be immoral, and they fear for the safety of women passing by late at night.

News November: Licence renewed

The council had received a lot of objections to the pub's annual licence renewal, many of which are not very credible. The council overruled the objections but did specify that lap dancing should not commence before 8pm due t the proximity of children's library that opens until 7pm.

The venue had applied to open as follows:

• Festival Trails Day - January 25, 2020, to January 26, 2020, from 8pm to 5am
• The Festival - March 9, 2020, to March 15, 2020, from 8pm to 5am
• The April Meeting - April 15, 2020, to April 17, 2020, from 8pm to 5am
• The Show Case - "Dates TBC", from 8pm to 5am
• The November Meeting - "Dates TBC", from 8pm to 5am
• The International - "Dates TBC", from 8pm to 5am
• New Year's Day - January 1, 2021, to January 2, 2021, from 8pm to 5am

News July 2019: More meetings

The 2 Pigs pub holds lap dancing events during the Cheltenham Horse Racing Festival in March. It applied to the council to offer similar events at other key horse racing meetings in October, November and December and the council duly agreed.

News January 2017: Application

A company runs occasional lap dancing events to coincide with race days. At the moment the company already runs such events spread across 5 venues, presumably to qualify for the 11 events a year allowed without a sex entertainment licence. The company would now to like to rationalise this to one licensed venue, the 2 Pigs Pub, and so have submitted a licence application to Cheltenham Council.

50 residents have submitted an objection whinging about morality and location. The police have chipped in a list of 30, now doubt repressive, licence conditions.

News June 2013: Climax

...And the new name is Climax.

News May 2013: New Hands

It looks likely that Heaven is set to be sold. An application has been made to the council for a licence under a new name.

News August 2014

Club Heat was mentioned in the news as an incident involving a violent assault outside the club reached the courts.

Coventry has very kindly decided to protect Club Heat's monopoly of table dancing in the city. The council decided that no more clubs should be allowed.