The bar owner received no complaints probably because no one realised it was being trialed.

If you let people know and put it to a vote u'll see what the majority will think.

I would have thought Kawczynski would have consulted his Christian beliefs first, just as he did on gay marriage.

All the pervs in Shrewsbury will just have to continue to travel unless it really is true that they all only live elsewhere.

Is Daniel going to lie in the road to stop it going ahead then later ask people to frequent the joint?

I first thought, when I saw the plans to convert the pub into a 'sex encounter establishment', was that it was going to be a brothel Perhaps the wording of the application should have been better.The world's moving on now - homosexual marriage being the latest thing to be changed. I see no harm in a lap dancing club. Good luck to Rob in trying to bring the town into the 21st century. If you don't like it, don't go!

Living in this town for 20 months beggars belief at what you read about Shrewsbury. Its double standards everywhere...Wyle Cop which is an historic/picturesque part of the Town has a PRIVATE SHOP near the English bridge which looks very inappropriate/unsightly...who approved that???? .Lap dancing evenings at an already established venue which has a smart exterior is hardly likely to cause anyone offence unless they were being forced to attend these evenings. Its about time The people,Council members, MPs of Shrewsbury etc took more notice of issues of far more importance. To read the local papers makes my blood boil at the money that is wasted on absurb ventures and things that this council do on a whim. Its about the people of this Town woke and smelt the coffee and did not keep living in ignorance. Its a very typically English attitude, which needs more drive and passion to make this Town into what it deserves!!!!

Was the first article on this wrong or have I got it wrong? Or has DK got it wrong?

I thought the source bar was a pub who wanted a license to do lap and pole dancing entertainment a couple of nights a week. Nobody said anything about a "lap dancing club" which is a different thing.

“ It doesn’t fit in with the high quality restaurants and night-life we have in Shrewsbury.” Wake up and smell the coffee Councillor Nutting. Not all our pubs and clubs fit your description, in fact most don't. We have a perfectly normal mix of venues to supply the needs of all and that could include some lap dancing a couple of nights a week.

If it becomes problematic the license can be cancelled but to be honest I don't think it will attract any more problem than it does now.

DK has more important things to do than this. We want jobs, a replacement prison, railway services developement and a close eye on what the Shropshire council is up to with our money. He will very soon be dealling with the fall out of changes to housing benefits like the bed room tax which will fill his time up apart from his duties in the Westminster Village.

we have so many double standards in the county town....

The popular notion that Grope Lane was once a ‘Red Light’ district. Way before Shrewsbury Town set foot on Gay Meadow, the then fields were apparently a popular place for after dark antics. Nowadays there are 3 to 4 (?) brothels in the town ...Oh and the 'terrible' Private Shop which does not even begin to stock what you can buy online and have delivered to your door in a discreet brown box by a courier.

The townies wrote in their droves to this fine newspaper complaining in fear about the football fans peeing in their gardens on their way to the new stadium but now sensationally understand that most football fans are decent folk - yet still the Sunday church goers can park their cars on a Sunday in Sutton Road but STFC fans are faced with parking tickets a day earlier.

Then there was the so called 'loud' music at the Quarry gigs - thankfully that is not sorted for the greater good.

I wish, just wish, that the elected councillors and MPs would write a mandate and show its voters their vision of Shrewsbury as I am sure most of the residents would utterly disagree. This town needs a future, a drive, a spirit and a kick up the backside.

Yes - lap dancing is demeaning Peter Nutting... but so is having the Chippendales and muscle men dressed as naughty firemen entertaining girls on birthday parties and hen nights. If its not hurting anyone then quite simply what is the problem????

Oh ye come the day when there are plans to turn the prison in to a peadophile holding centre or something when the residents of Shrewsbury can have something proper to moan and complain about.

I don't see what all the fuss is about ? If you don't like it don't go there.....simple !!!

Good luck to Rob Bywater & his staff for helping to bring Shrewsbury out of the dark ages.

As I recall, Mr Kawczynski was going to lay down in the road to stop the incinerator being built and then came out in favour of it. I await with interest his Damascine conversion to sex encounter establishments when he realises that it promotes a business interest over that of a historic town centre.

If you don't like it - don't go - simple!

I think its an excellent way for cash strapped students and single mums to earn a little pin money. I just hope that the men that visit aren't exploited.

Oh good. Another bandwagon for our MP to jump on. I suggest that the owner of the Source Bar offers to plant a hedge. After our MP found out that the Incinerator operators were planting a new hedge alongside the Ellesmere Road/Battlefield Road he changed his mind on the merits of the Incinerator and recommended everybody got behind it, conveniently forgetting about his earlier pledge to lie in the road.

With regard to his opinion that he finds lap dancing demeaning I suggest he stops doing it

As another poster states this town has more important issues that need his attention as it is dying on its feet, losing jobs daily,more empty shops(suggests he visits the Pride Hill Centre and Riverside) on going traffic snarl ups and not forgetting the chronic shortage of affordable housing for young people..

Grope Lane is an abbreviation for an older name!

As a woman I wouldn't like to run into the punters at a lapdancing club. I'm sure it would have knock-on effects for surrounding businesses.

Have the local MPs read the proposal? the source bar has not applied for a change of use to turn its self into a lap dancing club, it has simply had to ask for permission to do it one night per week, the rest of the time it will remain as it was, it is allowed that any establishment may actually do "lap dancing" one night per month anyway, as mentioned in above comments if the majority of people knew about the many brothels, massage venues or that inconspicuous private shop we already have in our town then they would maybe realise that the issue of a lap dancing night once per week, that you may frequent only if you want to is really not a tar on our whiter than apparent white town.

I do feel that we have to move with the times, i personally , through my own choice would not be visiting as i would also choose not to visit the source bar on any of its nights as i am rather past the age of frequenting this sort of bar, but i also have absoloulty no problem with people who choose to visit doing so, i have however interpreted the comments made by the MPs as very misleading and i think they should take a little more time to read through documents before making comments, i am actually feeling rather bewildered at how out of date the views of the politicians running our town seem to be, and i can completely understand why people have no enthusiasm to vote for these dinosaurs and really feel they should redeem themselves by hopping into the 21st century and its wants and needs.

There are some very insular views coming out from people who have never travelled in Europe.

I know lap-dancing is not a brothel but some people seem to be drawing the inference that it’s the thin end of the wedge and this will give rise to sexual offences. The opposite is true.

Take Germany, where brothels are legal (but exploitative behaviour is criminal!), there are a estimated 400,000 prostitutes with 1.2 visits daily (both men and women visiting!). The industry is worth 6 billion euro per annum and TAXED!

That’s the equivalent of Porsche cars.

Now if Porsche wanted to relocate to Shrewsbury everyone would be grateful for the economic benefits – no questions asked about Dr Ferdinand Porsche’s Nazi past and VW/Hitler past, or the fact that he designed the Tiger Tank and the V1 bombs (Doodlebugs) that killed thousands of Londoners in the Blitz. Or the fact that Porche employed Slave labour at VW to make war products and oversaw the massacre of the slave’s new born children, while many slaves dropped dead on the factory floor.

No – everyone would see the benefits of moving on.

I think Shrewsbury should move on and become the UK’s answer to Amsterdam and leave Gretna Green to its self-proclaimed ‘UK Capital of Romance’, and watch the town’s economic revival.