Business group to object to plans for Newhall Street lap-dancing club
Colmore Business Improvement District is to lead objections to plans to open a lap-dancing bar in Birmingham’s business district.
An application has been lodged by Michelle Monaghan, who runs Cyclone Club and Scarlets in the city centre, to open a “sexual entertainment venue” on Newhall Street.
The Newhall Street venue is prominently located on the corner of Great Charles Street
She wants to convert the former Cogs bar, on the corner of Great Charles Street, into La Belle’s. The scheduled opening hours would be 8pm-6am, seven days a week.
However Colmore BID, which represents businesses in and around Colmore Row, has said it will be making its opposition known to Birmingham City Council’s licensing committee.
A Colmore BID spokesperson said: “Colmore Business District is the premier business area in the city and we do not feel that Newhall Street is a suitable location for a sexual entertainment venue and will therefore be making an objection to the application.”
At a licensing hearing last November for Scarlets, which is in the Southside area of the city centre, the venue successfully made the case that moral objections should not override sexual entertainment venues’ lawful right to exist.
