Strip club licence renewal opposed by residents

A town centre strip club should not have its licence renewed because of hundreds of homes that have been built nearby, opponents have said.

The Honeypot in Queen Street, Maidenhead, has operated since 2011 and its licence has been renewed annually since then.

An application was refused by the Royal Borough of Maidenhead and Windsor (RBWM) in 2024, but after the club's owners sought to judicially review that decision the licence was renewed.

The club's owners have been approached to comment.

Jack Douglas, an independent councillor for St Mary's on RBWM, said he is opposed to the club having its licence renewed.

Douglas said there is "no prospect of the area becoming less residential again" and other council-led plans "steer development in the town centre towards a very substantial increase" in homes.

The application to renew the club's licence is set to be heard by RBWM's licensing and public spaces protection order sub-committee on 12 January.

Another opponent, Ryger Maidenhead, which has built about 440 apartments in the One Maidenhead project nearby, said that has "changed the centre of [the town] for the better".

It said it is "now inappropriate for this location [to be used as the club] given more residents and young families are living in immediate proximity".

Two other objections, both apparently from residents, were submitted after the council's October deadline in early November.

A representative of the Friends of The Crescent Residents Association, which said it has 180 members, said it was opposed to a "sleazy venue on one of the main routes into the town".

But they said the club potentially being allowed to move from the town centre to another area "would be slightly less objectionable".