The businessman behind the scheme, Terry Lake, found Council officials and the police to be very helpful and positive.
Local politicians have a very poor record with such decisions.
They begun by deciding they had no grounds to reject the scheme completely but asked the developer to fund a late-night bus service. The developer agreed to provide free parking and a late-night bus service. The objectors considered an appeal to the Local Government Ombudsman and successfully objected when the club applied to the City Council for an entertainments licence, on the grounds it's in a residential area. The developers lodged an appeal with the local Magistrates for September 1997 and meanwhile they applied again. The appeal to Magistrates was also turned down.