Issue - meetings

This report requests the Committee to recommend to Council the adoption of a Revised Sexual Entertainment Venue and Sexual Establishment Policy.

The Committee agreed to recommend to Council the adoption of a revised Sexual Entertainment Venue Policy, subject to a minor amendment agreed at the meeting.

In order to ensure that the Council continued to exercise its licensing function, the Committee received and considered a report setting out a revised policy on the regulation of venues which offer sexual entertainment facilities.

It was noted that the definition of relevant entertainment did not include massage parlours and the Committee was informed that whilst it was incorporated in other boroughs’ policies,  in Epsom & Ewell,  massages and special treatments were licensable under the London Local Authorities Act 1991 (as amended).

Having considered the revised policy, a minor amendment was requested and agreed, as follows:  page 46, paragraph 1.2, to read:  ‘…Making Epsom and Ewell an excellent place to live and work…’.

Accordingly, subject to the correction of the amendment set out above, the Committee agreed to recommend to Council the adoption of a revised Sexual Entertainment Venue Policy.