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Further public consultation on sexual entertainment venues in Angus due to start in coming weeks
A strip club in Dundee.
Residents will be quizzed on a set of conditions that might allow sexual entertainment venues such as lap dancing clubs to be licensed in Angus.
The council’s civic licencing committee was told a consultation on a draft licensing policy statement will take place from February until April.
There are no such premises in Angus at the moment but local authorities across the country have been given new licensing powers by the Scottish Government.
A similar consultation was held last year with the aim of sounding out the public on the idea in general. The new one will consider the specifics of a licensing policy statement.
Carnoustie SNP councillor Mark McDonald said the current system was working well.
“This is great for a number of reasons,” he said.
“One of the main ones, however, is that it affords greater scrutiny. Scrutiny by the public who cannot watch meetings live.
“It allows the public to catch up on decisions that impact them directly and gives them the opportunity for them to question us as their councillors.
“Not everyone is free on a Thursday from 2pm and we have actually stumbled into something great here.
“Also, the YouTube viewing figures are surprisingly good.
“The explanation that this [change] is for data protection principles raises more questions than it provides an explanation for.