Article on the Details of the Stop The Strip Pub Hearing

I wrote an article today that’s up on BBC London. Mostly of interest to those who (a) want to know how a local town hall licensing committee hearing works or (b) just want to gloat about we-won, we-won, no strip club on my road!

Posted by Kate Smurthwaite on 16 May 2008, at 10:47 PM | Comments (3)

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Audrey Cook said:

This is great news: I was wondering, could Katy get the support of all those who opposed the strip pub to sign the online petition raised by Object,

http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/lapdancing/

Its currently at 377 signatories and growing fast!

Keep up the great work, Audrey

Posted on 18 May 2008 at 9:47 AM

Cara said:

Another petition:

http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/genderhatecrime/

Posted on 18 May 2008 at 12:17 PM

Kate Smurthwaite said:

Sadly not really - we were going door-to-door. I only know the 525 number from the council - many people wrote directly to the council after we spoke to them so we don't even know who they are.

The issues are slightly different too. The Object campaign (which I personally fully support) is about forcing lap-dancing bars to be licensed as Sex Encounters Establishments. In Hackney - where Satchmo's is - this is already the case. Hence why we had the opportunity to object and go to the hearing.

I imagine that those who chose to object would want the chance to object in the same fashion if they lived elsewhere. But I don't have a list of objectors and many may not be on the internet.

Posted on May 18, 2008 4:51 PM

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