City planners have joined forces with property developers behind a luxury skyscraper condo and numerous ‘prominent organisations’ to fight against Gatecrasher’s plan to build a new club in Sheffield, claiming the venue would ruin the ambience of the upmarket regeneration scheme.
Local newspaper the Yorkshire Post noted concerns by property company City Lofts that the club would ‘crush sales’ at their nearby 32 story ‘landmark’ residential development, while Government organisation the Department for Children, Schools and Families said they’d need to hire ‘extra security’.
Planning officers in turn claimed the club ‘could jeopardise the Heart of the City regeneration scheme’, despite providing up to 150 new jobs, the Post reported.
"This (the inner city development zone) is a development that has taken many years and substantial investment of public and private money to deliver and make successful. Its public spaces are almost universally popular and require a high level of maintenance and supervision to keep them at their best,” the planners declared in their report.
"It has to be concluded that the proposed club represents a threat to this achievement,” the claimed.
The opposition to Gatecrasher, emerged just over six weeks after Simon Raine, MD of Gatecrasher, hailed the Charles Street location as the club’s perfect new home.
“We were devastated at the loss of the Sheffield club in 2007 and have been searching tirelessly for a location so we can return to our spiritual Sheffield home,” he said in a statement asking clubbers to lobby the council to vote ‘yes’.
“The new site will exceed all expectations bolder, bigger and a lot more edgier than before. We want to build the best nightclub in the world that has always been our aim,” said Raines.
The Gatecrasher chief also launched a Facebook campaign urging clubbers to lobby the council to vote ‘yes’, attracting over 11,000 supporters. The decision to build or not to build is to be taken at a council meeting on Monday (April 19th)
http://tinyurl.com/y4bvaca (Yorkshire Evening Post)
http://tinyurl.com/y7l863y (Gatecrasher on Facebook)
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