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Article: Massage parlour proprietor fails to block closure moves
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- July 18, 1998
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A Birmingham massage parlour proprietor has failed in a High Court
bid to block closure moves by the city council, which he claims will
drive him and his 15 staff out of business.
Mr Terry Taylor, who trades as The First Class Gentlemen's Club
and runs a massage parlour in Bristol Road, Selly Oak, was ordered on
July 8 to close the premises by July 13 on the basis that he does not
have planning consent. Yesterday, the order was up held by Mr
Justice Popplewell at the High Court in London who refused Mr Taylor
leave to challenge it. He said that any challenge against the
council's stance would legally be "doomed to failure."
It was argued before by Mr Iain Macdonald, counsel for Mr Taylor, ...