Whilst its not really my bag ...One of these places opened last year in Stratford. There was a tremendous ho ha to start with but quite frankly once it opened we don't hear anything about it..

As for the Chicago Cafe and the "Battle of Greenhill St" every Sat night..thats another story!

Well if you ask me pole dancing clubs are discriminatory against none polish people, what if I (a brit) want to go for a dance. Oh hold on, I think I may have misunderstood <cough>.

You're right. I don't believe it's good for the town, but you can't blame Rob Ransford (who I know from the local snooker league). He's seen a gap in the market to make money and he's gone for it. You can't blame him for that.

Sure Steve,
These women chose to do pole dancing, I never though for a minute they are being exploited.....but.. what sort of people do they want to attract was my question. Is this kind of entertainment for the betterment of the town ?

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The pole dancing club isn't somewhere I'd go, but the people saying it's exploiting young women are just against it because of their feelings towards it, and not arguing on the whole picture. It is not exploitation of women at all. Nobody asks these women to work there. They are adults and can make up their own mind. It is their choice to work there, and they know what to expect.

No, Leamington isn't too bad, but I am disappointed about the proposals for the pole dancing venue in the old part, this doesn't seem to help matters, as it will attract the wrong sort.

We do get the occasional youth crime such as smashing car windows and slashing tyres recently reported, and there was that poor homeless woman set alight to while sleeping in a shop doorway.
Of all the places I have been, that sort of thing never occurred.

Yes, we can expect trouble anywhere, but I am told there is an on going anti social problem increasing in Leamington.

In fact I am told that a few professional people are leaving the town because of its seemingly bad anti social problems.
Which is a great shame really.
For all its problems I actually like Leamington. Its not all that bad, most folks are generally very pleasant and friendly.
Yes, Hartley, we do need to combat the underlying cause of drunks and crime, but how ?.

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I agree with "Unregistered" -- sorry, folks, but a few drunks and loud youths don't make Leamington a dangerous place. This old town is haven of peace compared with many other towns and cities in the UK.

There has never been a golden age -- there have always been drunks and loud youths, frequently in greater numbers than now, and frequently nastier than those we have now because they were a lot poorer in a lot less tolerant society.

And on that note, we should all be trying to combat why we have drunks in the first place -- a major social problem throughout the Western world. We shouldn't be simply sweeping them out of sight to make the place more appealing to the rest of us. That's not civilised behaviour either, is it?

I'll get off my soap-box now.

There is nothing wrong with southside anymore. The place has significant investment and renovation in recent years and is well lit, etc. If people think that area is rough, they need a reality and should go to metropolitan areas where you really will get stabbed/mugged/shot for being there!

I dont think Bedworth has that many problems--- people say too many pubs --maybe but there is nowhere else to go. I think the civic hall is wonderful but wasted. A place that size could be used more efficiently, and not just for shows.
When it was built it was to be an all purpose hall for the use of everyone, all day and every day.
The adjoining Arts centre is well used during the day but the whole building need to be open at least on some evenings.

Idigress!!!

Many years ago when I lived in Leamington the bottom of the town was always 'iffy' -with noise and fights and drunks -much worse than it has ever been here in the north of the County------excepting of course the old 'Black Bedd'oth' early in the 20th century - and before that ... when the miners (it was a mining town if you haven't guessed) thought nothing of marching to Coventry on the spur of the moment when the pubs shut,to pick a fight with anyone they could find on the way-" these black faced men marching through Foleshill with shovels" as one account reads. No pit baths in those days!
Makes today seem tame!! but there are no accounts of guns or knives as we see today, just good old shovels--it makes me cringe.

i dont think that you can specifically say that the north is worse than the south there are similar crime patterns both north and south of the town. With the advent of safer neighborhoods areas should seem far more policed than previously see here - Welcome — Warwickshire Police Safer Neighbourhoods.

I think you are less likely to get into any trouble at the bottom of town, I was raised south of the river and people tend to be much more honest and as long as you aren't acting like a chav you will be much safer than north town.

Have to agree with that one I have to say. Stratford is far too touristy for my liking.

Great, fantastic, Stratford has the biggest chunk of the counties cash and the residents get bug all out of it. It all goes on tourists.
We haven't got a lot for locals to do because there's not the footfall to support it, we do have the advantage of having good facilities at Nuneaton and excellent facilities at Tamworth. Tamworth is a bit rough though with it's night life and yobs taking advantage of the night life. It needs to seriously sort it out.

I find it boring, with not a lot to do. The only time I ever go over there is if my wife fancies a trip to Matalan

There's nothing wrong with it as such, visitors love the place. It's just, well, a bit boring for locals.

I was having a conversation about stratford at the weekend. Whats wrong with the place?