Company drops lap dance bid

Plans to create Shrewsbury’s first lap dancing club have been ditched after bosses behind the scheme decided to put the site up for sale.

Gemini Games Ltd, based in Telford, won a planning appeal in December to turn the upper two floors of Central Hall, in Castle Gates, into an exotic dancing club featuring semi-naked, nude pole and lap dances.

The bottom floor has planning permission for a cafe or restaurant. But the owners have now given up on the idea and will instead offer the property for sale.

Toby Shaw, partner of Towler Shaw Roberts Surveyors, which has been instructed to sell the building, said it was available for vacant possession and had a guide price of £495,000.

He said: “My client had got planning permission and I think the Gemini group were interested in leasing the upper floors for a gentlemen’s club but for whatever reason that hasn’t now gone forward.

“It could be used as offices or converted to residential.”

The decision was today welcomed by Shrewsbury MP Daniel Kawczynski.

He said: “I am absolutely delighted that this company will not be proceeding with this.

“We have won this one because it’s just not on, frankly, having a lap dancing club in Shrewsbury.”

No-one from Gemini Games was available for comment today.