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Lakota wants to put on X-rated entertainment
The owners of Lakota have applied to Bristol City Council for permission to remove a premises licence condition that bans it from “any adult entertainment, services (and) other activities”.
This current condition currently prohibits “nudity, semi-nudity and films for restricted age groups”.
A licensing sub-committee will decide whether to grant consent to the St Paul’s nightclub at a hearing in City Hall on Thursday.
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A total of 28 of the 29 people who submitted representations were in support and have had their names redacted from the report to the meeting “due to fear of intimidation and violence”.
Under licensing laws, sexual entertainment in any pub or club does not need a licence if it happens fewer than 12 times a year, does not last more than 24 hours and that there is a gap of at least one month between each event.
It means landlords do not need to go through the expense of applying for an occasional strip tease in a bar for a stag or hen party.
IKTOMI, the owners of Lakota on Upper York Street off Stokes Croft, have asked to replace the current restriction to allow “entertainment of an adult nature” with attendees at least 20 years old.
IKTOMI’s directors include Marti Burgess, who is also a director of Bristol24/7.
No external advertising would be allowed, and the club’s current hours and other activities would remain unchanged.
The club is in the city centre cumulative impact area which Avon & Somerset Police has deemed is at “saturation point” for licensed premises where many late-night alcohol-fuelled crime and disorder takes place.
In 2024, the Burgess family put the establishment, which has planning permission for 46 homes on the site, up for sale, with the aim of reopening the club at a different location.
The city council granted permission for the redevelopment in April 2020.
Main photo: Milan Perera
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