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Pole dancing with doctor
Revealed: medics behind plans for new Archway Tavern shows
TWO doctors are revealed this week as the people behind a controversial plan to bring pole dancing to the Archway Tavern.
Dr Sardar Imtiaz and Dr Talat Imtiaz are the major shareholders in Timzia Limited, which has applied for pole dancing and table dancing at the pub on the traffic island in the middle of the Archway gyratory system.
They are registered in connection with a surgery in Tottenham Lane, Crouch End. They have 100 ordinary shares each; only 202 shares make up the whole company.
The company was first formed in 2003 and it was two years before the doctors bought in.
The remaining two are held by relatives, including Nazli Imtiaz, 34, who is listed as company secretary and whose name appears on the lease at the Archway Tavern.
The freehold of the pub, according to the Land Registry, is owned by a pub chain called Unique Pub Properties, operated from the West Midlands.
Attempts to contact them last night were unsuccessful. They can be traced on the electoral roll to a flat in an exclusive block in Park Lane. Miss Imtiaz was not answering calls at her flat in Baker Street either.
Records at Companies House show that accounts for Timzia have yet to be filed this year. In fact, the most recent publicly available accounts go back to August 2005 when the doctors had yet to get involved.
Back then, the records did not make healthy reading with a £128,450 annual loss, largely due to splashing out nearly £500,000 on expenditure marked only as ‘administrative expenses’.
Under the application, which will be considered at a Licensing committee in December, the organisers have the option of running adult entertainment throughout the day from as early as 9am. It could continue until 5am.
Meanwhile, the campaign against the venue continues.
Both Labour and Lib Dem councillors are vehemently against the venue and have launched a petition against it.
Cllr Ursula Woolley, Lib Dem member for Junction Ward, said: The Archway Tavern is central to our area, a landmark pub, and a really popular live music venue.
“Frankly pole dancing and lap dancing is the last thing we want there.”
She added that Archway is a residential area with many young families.
“I think it’s fair to say that most people would rather not live right near a pole-dancing club, and none of us want our children, especially our daughters, having to walk past it on their way to and from school.
“One club in Bethnal Green that I have been past has a huge neon sign depicting a nude woman dancing on a pole. Is that the kind of image we want illuminating Archway?”
Residents fear that with the regeneration of the King’s Cross area they might see elements of the sex trade
dispersed from there.
Cllr Woolley said: “The last thing we want is for the Archway Tavern to be a beacon that brings other, even seedier things to the area.
“We definitely don’t want Archway to be packed with so-called “gentlemen’s entertainment” – that wasn’t the regeneration of Archway we were looking for!”
Social scientist Julie Bindel carried out research that suggested the presence of pole dancing and table dancing clubs in an area increases abuse of and violence against women in that area.
The research was published by the Holloway- based London Metropolitan University. |
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