A year later they won an award from the Institute for Public Relations for Excellence in Public Communications, based on the successful media campaign around December 1996 highlighting homelessness in the City. In July 1995 the developers of the small exhibition site between Lion Yard and the Corn Exchange threatened to take legal action if their entertainment complex bid was rejected by councillors. The company was given permission to develop the site as a nightclub in 1990 and agreed to pay 500,000 for the land. The council deferred the decision instead. Roger Quirk, of developers Urban Leisure of Billericay, agreed with Coun.
Nobody can make any decisions.
Roger Quirk again threatened to sue to recover an estimated 150,000 in detailed planning costs. The Council allowed negotiations for the possible sale of the lease on the site to begin. In May 1999 a fresh plan for a nightclub was proposed by Albert Gazeley's property company , this time for the former Job Centre building next to the empty space. After all the years of wrangles, a nightclub plan from Chilthorne Properties for this site was approved in January 2000 and the club is supposed to open later on in 2000. They produced statistics to show their sites are more dangerous, though the roads already have crossings .