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Fabric wins appeal over proposed new security measures

By | Published on Monday 14 December 2015

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London club Fabric has successfully appealed a number of new licensing conditions placed on the venue by Islington Council late last year, according to Resident Advisor.

As previously reported, Fabric faced losing its licence entirely after a review of its operations was launched by the local authority last year. The review followed complaints by police, mainly in relation to alleged drug incidents, and claims that there had been a “wholly unacceptable number of deaths and near death incidents at the venue”.

The club managed to keep its licence, but had to agree to a number of strict new security measures, including sniffer dogs and ID scans. Though the venue’s co-founders Cameron Leslie and Keith Reilly immediately announced that they would appeal the Council’s ruling, saying: “We need to see their written reasons but we fundamentally disagree on a number of key points. We are on the same page in lots of ways, we just have fundamental differences on how to operate that”.

Most of the new security measures were never implemented, pending the appeal, though ID scanning was trialled for a couple of months. But, following the venue’s successful appeal, it seems those measures won’t now ever have to be introduced.

Despite last year’s license review, police admitted that they had a good relationship with Fabric, while the venue’s management said at the time that “Fabric has always operated a zero tolerance drugs policy and we’re proud to continue to be open and honest in assisting the police with any incident investigations”.



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