Strip club row erupts over plans for gentleman's club under London's Brazilian consulate

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London. Clarmans Clubs, who run a string of clubs including the famous Sophisticats in Marylebone, are hoping to open a new gentleman's club offering a "full nudity striptease" in the basement floor underneath the consulate just off Oxford Street.If the plans are approved, the new venue in the heart of London would host punters looking for some saucy entertainment from 11 pm to 2 am on Monday and Tuesday and from 11 pm to 5 am from Wednesday to Saturday. READ MORE: Pornhub legend Mia Khalifa in stitches over fan's 'hilarious' Jesus-like tattoo of her There are also plans for a "high-class" Brazilian restaurant in the building's also vacant ground floor, just above the gentleman's club.But the Consulate-General of Brazil said the concept for the seedy venue could breach the country’s right to perform its duties adequately.The consulate said: "We find it absolutely inappropriate to allow a sexual entertainment venue to be established in the same building where consular functions are regularly exercised and through which circulate children, elderly and vulnerable people every day."Not to mention the clear inconsistency that there would be between the granting of the required license and the commitment undertaken by parties to the Vienna Convention to co-operate for the adequate performance of functions by consular posts."The proposed owners of the sex club said there would be no signage on the building advertising the dark deeds happening within, and access to the basement club "will be restricted via the basement stairwell entrance only".Thomas and Thomas Partners Solicitors, representing Clarmans Clubs, said: "Our client’s management team are one of, if not the most experienced SEVL operators in central London."Amongst.