Changes to Strip Licensing Legislation
It cant have escaped that your attention that there are more clubs in the UK than ever before and it was only a matter of time before there was some sort of changes to Strip licensing legislation which put a limit on the number of new clubs. There are presently 345 clubs in England Scotland and Wales with more trying for licenses every week. The quality of clubs has not improved, and from what I have been reading on the UK Strip Clubs Forum workers in these clubs have seen a downturn in punters coming through the door.
The furore was initiated by the news that Brighton City Council have approved 6 additional fully nude clubs within the last 6 months and will see local councils have unprecedented powers to deny new clubs licenses and even close down established clubs. What effect this will have on the industry will remain to be seen, however with the overloading of clubs in cities such as Brighton, Newcastle, Birmingham and Leeds it will come as no surprise that changes will be made.
The form and letter of these changes will also remaining to be seen, will some councils be able to deny all clubs? Will only the big chains like FYEO, Spearmint and Secrets be able to muscle their way to new clubs? or will every council be able have 3/4 clubs with a one out/one in policy? The last one would be sensible, but more likely these changes to strip licensing legislation will be hi-jacked by anti strip campaigners who would like to close all clubs.
Since the opening of the first Spearmint Rhino club in the mid 1990s there has been a revolution in the ways strip clubs operate with a more mainstream attitude to what a strip club should be, but there will always be limit to the viable number of clubs. Overloading on numbers is not good for the dancers, clubs or even punters. We have all been there you go into a club expecting to be entertained and find some tired, disinterested strippers sitting in the corner!
More on these changes as they come, although it goes without saying that strip clubs make major money and the government will not want to slit their own throat by denying themselves millions in taxes by closing too many clubs!