LapOff! are now on Twitter..

Get real time updates and general nonsense at http://twitter.com/lapoff

Will try and update a few times a day

The real reason Dentkas Hassan wants to open a lap dancing bar….

A New Zealand taekwondo athlete has opened an escort agency to help fund his bid to compete at the 2012 London Olympic Games. Logan Campbell told local press he hoped his Auckland “gentleman’s club”, which provides escort services, would help him raise about £120,000 toward his London Games campaign.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2009/jul/12/taekwondo-escort-agency-olympics

What sport is Dentkas aiming for – sychronised swimming? Beach Volleyball? BMX riding?

Send in your suggestions – the winner gets a LapOff! mug..

Let’s get over 100 objections in

We now have 93 objections in – we need as many as possible

Use the following links
online

at http://www.planningservices.haringey.gov.uk/portal/servlets/ApplicationSearchServlet?PKID=200166

writing

(quoting reference HGY/2009/0953)

to:
Development Management Support
Planning and Regeneration
639 High Road
Tottenham
N17 8BD

“Gentlemen” on the rampage

How many times have we heard that lapdancing clubs are well run establishments, causing few problems for local residents?

A “BADLY RUN” lap dancing club in Wembley has been stripped of its entertainment licence after a series of breaches and problems with boozy customers.

Blue Eyes, in South Way, was reported to Brent Council licensing committee by Brent Police, who asked for the club’s licence to be reviewed.

Officers reported a series of violent and anti-social incidents on match days at nearby Wembley Stadium, and claimed the club bosses had repeatedly breached the terms of its late licence.

The panel of councillors agreed, and stripped the club of its right to open until 5am, it now having to close at 11pm each night.

Blue Eyes has also been banned from having lap dancing after the terms of its licence were changed.

PC Nicola McDonald, who launched the review, said: “I thank the councillors for taking decisive action on this badly run premises.

“This should send a strong message to other licensed premises in the area that we will not tolerate such breaches. It is not just breaking the law it causes harm and distress.”

Spurs and Arsenal are not that far away, are they?

Write to the council

It is essential for the success of the opposition to this proposal that as many LapOff! supporters as possible submit objections to the application, using one of the following means:
online

at http://www.planningservices.haringey.gov.uk/portal/servlets/ApplicationSearchServlet?PKID=200166

writing

(quoting reference HGY/2009/0953)

to:
Development Management Support
Planning and Regeneration
639 High Road
Tottenham
N17 8BD

Leeds Lap Dance Club raided

DOZENS of police swooped on a Leeds lap dancing club in the search for drugs and illegal immigrants in a midnight raid.

Saturday night revellers stopped in their tracks as police armed with a warrant under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 surrounded the “Blue Coyote” in Merrion Street, Leeds.

In a carefully coordinated operation officers entered through both the public entrances in Merrion Street and rear staff doors in Merrion Place.

http://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/news/It39s-a-bustLeeds-lapdancing-club.5430995.jp

There is absolutely NO link between lap dancing clubs and people trafficking (or drugs) apparently.

The facebook row

To be honest, getting the blog started again has been harder than I thought – we were all hoping for a summer off and I have had other problems to deal with in the meantime (a neighbour’s dog that won’t stop barking for starters – anyone got any suggestions?) and I have to admit I have not been looking at the facebook site that much. It would seem that a couple of lap dance enthusiasts have invaded our group with the express intention of telling us that we all suck, and they should be free to follow their passion. Finding anyone who agrees with the application is quite hard, and it was mildly amusing that these 2 should feel so strongly that they bravely entered the fray – we all know it takes a big man to abuse someone from their bedsit.

The main Peter Stringfellow wannabe is this chap

His best line (I bet he’s tried a few of those)

Hey lady! Why don’t you get in the kitchen and make me my dinner? *snicker*

He bought a little pal (aggghh) along with him for support

I know what you are all thinking – why do these 2 need to visit lap dancing bars? They are so stunning that women must throw themselves at their Adonis-esque physiques every day.

My wife has just told me she is leaving me – I cannot compete with these 2, and she cannot live with me knowing that hunks like these two are out there for the taking. Them’s the breaks, I guess.

To visit the wall

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=53768774705&ref=mf#/wall.php?id=53768774705

Official and detailed rebuttal of current planning application

https://lapoff.wordpress.com/statement-against-planning-application/

The official Lap Off! objection to the planning application at 159a Tottenham Lane (AKA The Music Palace)

LapOff! are delighted to learn that the Music Palace does not have the appropriate planning consent to operate a “Gentleman’s Club” and will oppose the application with vigour. Anyone wishing to view and comment on the application can do so online using the Haringey online planning application  – search for reference HGY/2009/0953 or at web address http://www.planningservices.haringey.gov.uk/portal/servlets/ApplicationSearchServlet?PKID=200166

The applicants have provided “supporting information” to back up the proposed change of use to “Gentleman’s Club”. This information is misleading and inaccurate. It contains a clumsy attempt to distort the nature of the area surrounding The Music Palace describing it as “predominantly retail and commercial” whereas in fact , of the 71 different adjoing properties circulated by Haringey with notice of the application, only four do not have a residential component, these four being the former Hornsey Journal building, Kwik-Fit, Rosebery House and number 157 Tottenham Lane. On this basis 94% of the area is residential. Factoring in
the 152 residents in the YMCA,
the multiple doorbells at many of the addresses circulated,
the proposed residential development at what is temporarily a car wash,
the proposed residential development at the disused garages site adjacent to Rokesly
and the Site Specific Proposal in the Unitary Development to return the Texaco/Somerfield site to mixed residential and retail use,
then the residential percentage is well in excess of  99%.
Rokesly School, a primary of about 700 pupils, is also on the list of adjacent properties.
The Unitary Development Plan identifies the Music Palace as being well outside the Crouch End Town Centre. National planning policy designates town cetres as the preferred location for such high volume club/leisure activities.
A more detailed rebuttal is being prepared by LapOff. The draft of this rebuttal is currently available on the blog/facebook sites.
It is essential for the success of the opposition to this proposal that as many LapOff! supporters as possible submit objections to the application, using one of the following means:
online at http://www.planningservices.haringey.gov.uk/portal/servlets/ApplicationSearchServlet?PKID=200166

in writing quoting reference HGY/2009/0953 to:
Development Management Support
Planning and Regeneration
639 High Road
Tottenham
N17 8BD
or by email to
lynne@lynnefeatherstone.org