Adult cinema and sex shop in Bilston granted new licence

City of Wolverhampton Council has agreed to give the Foxy Lady club in Oxford Street, Bilston, a new licence after the venue closed earlier this year due to the death of its long-time owner David Parsons.

Andrea Parsons had applied to the council for a new sexual entertainment venue licence earlier this month which received the backing of its regulatory committee at a meeting on Tuesday (June 3).

The venue, which includes a sex shop, cinema and strip club, closed earlier this year.

At the meeting on Tuesday, Mrs Parsons said the main focus of the business would be the cinema and shop and plans to re-open the strip club would be looked at further into the future “if at all.”

“At this time, and not just due to the economic situation, I need to focus on the shop and the cinema, it’s not my intention to open the dance club with any great rush, if at all,” she told councillors.

“[The club] is very discreet. We’re not lights outside flashing, beckoning people in. Not at all. We’re not sensationalist, it’s very discreet.”

The application asked for permission to open from midday to 6am every day.

No objections had been made to the plans by either police or the fire service or any other responsible authority, the council said.

A notice was placed on the entrance to the Foxy Lady in Oxford Street in March saying the club had temporarily closed.

A licence asking for permission to continue using the building as a sex shop, dance club and adult cinema was applied for by David Parsons in March last year.

The club opened in the 1990s and was given a venue licence by the council in 2005 which it had held since.

The venue’s opening hours were extended to 6am following a decision by City of Wolverhampton Council in 2012.

This came despite objections from local councillors on behalf of several residents concerned by added noise and traffic into the early hours by extending the opening times.