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09.02.2024 - 18:18 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
Three strip clubs, including one which calls itself 'Manchester's only superluxe playground', were granted licences today — but two of them didn’t show up for their crunch hearing.
Sexual entertainment venues (SEVs), as they are formally known, must renew their licence annually with the council in order to operate. Friday’s (February 9) hearing was put in the diary at the start of the month.
Despite advance notice, the applicants for two SEVs — Obsessions on Whitworth Street West and Victoria’s on Dantzic Street — didn’t show up at the meeting, with the committee deciding to hear their case in their absence.
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Proceedings began as expected with the first application of the day, for Whiskey Down on Lloyd Street. Online, it calls itself 'Manchester's only superluxe playground', and takes inspiration from the 'tastefully decadent James Bond private members lounges you saw in the 1970s'.
That business model was born out of a feeling that ‘a number of years ago we felt the gentleman’s club was getting jaded’, Chris Bateson, operations director of parent company Tokyo Industries, told the three-councillor panel.
He added that the venue, which opened in July 2019, also ‘focuses on Manchester's largest whiskey collection’. “[It costs] from £7 to £35 per shot with the most expensive product being more than £10,000. It’s a bottle of bourbon,” he went on.
After a brief deliberation period, the panel decided to approve the renewal. Chair, Coun John Hughes, said: “We are going to grant the licence. It has been there for a number of years and there have never been any issues, so we are quite happy to grant it.”
Then there was a longer delay as officers
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