AN application has been submitted for a sex establishment in Barrow.

Timothy Hemming has submitted the application to Barrow Borough Council for renewal of a licence for the use of the premises known as Simply Pleasure in Dalkeith Street as a sex establishment.

An official legal notice published in today's Evening Mail states the application was submitted on November 9 of this year.

Any objections to the application can be made to the Environmental Health department at the town hall in Duke Street within 28 days of the submission.

The notice states that names of any objectors will not be released without their permission.

Sex establishments must be licensed under the Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1982, as amended by the Policing and Crime Act 2009.

The definition of sex establishment includes:

Sex cinemas, at which R18-certificate films can be shown;

Sex shops, which are premises, vehicles or stalls used for selling, displaying or demonstrating sex articles (which may include R18-certificate videos and DVDs) or other things used in connection with sexual activity or acts of force or restraint associated therewith;

Sexual entertainment venues, which are premises at which entertainment comprising live sexually stimulating performances or displays of nudity is provided in front of an audience, for the financial gain of the organiser or performers. Provision of such entertainment on no more than 11 occasions per year, with at least a calendar month between each occasion, will not require a sex establishment licence.

Applicants for sex establishment licences must be over 18, and not be disqualified from holding a licence (for example, because they have been refused a licence in the previous 12 months, unless that refusal was subsequently overturned on appeal).