Loft lap dancing saga ends
The attempt by Vimac Ltd to open a lap dancing club at The Loft in North Road has at last been killed off.
Vimac had gone to the high court to ask for permission to seek judicial review of the decision of the local magistrates to refuse a licence.
The high court refusal to allow a judicual review was about as unequivocal as it gets and so we must hope that this is now the end of the matter.
While this is the outcome that the overwhelming majority of the local community wanted, there is still great concern about the difficulty of controlling this type of club under existing licensing law.
The fact that this is now recognised nationally and is being taken up on an all-party basis in parliament shows that those who tried to make local party-political mischief over the issue here in Durham should have known better.
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