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7 Int'l J.L. Built Env't 5 (2015)

handle is hein.journals/jppel7 and id is 1 raw text is: The current issue and full text archive of this journal is available on Emerald Insight at: www.emeraldinsight.com/1756-1450.htm Law, sex and the city: regulating sexual entertainment venues in England and Wales Philip Hubbard School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK Abstract Purpose - This paper aims to explore how municipal law, in its various guises, serves to police the boundaries of acceptable sexual conduct by considering how Sexual Entertainment Venues (SEVs) in British cities are controlled through diverse techniques of licensing and planning control. Design/methodology/approach - The paper describes the emergence of permissive new licensing controls that provide local authorities considerable control over SEVs. Licensing decisions, judicial review cases and planning inspectorate adjudications since the inception of the new powers are examined to explore the logic of judgements preventing SEVs operating in specific localities. Findings - Through analysis of case studies, it is shown that local authorities have almost total discretion to prevent SEVs operating in specific localities, particularly those undergoing, or anticipated to be undergoing, redevelopment and regeneration. Originality/value - This paper offers unique insights on the scope of municipal law by highlighting how land uses associated with sexual minority interests are regulated in the interests of urban regeneration, redevelopment and restructuring. Keywords Planning, UK, Sexuality, Licensing, Nuisance, Sexual entertainment venue Paper type Research paper Introduction It is widely understood that law profoundly influences sexual attitudes, practices and subjectivities, with criminal laws concerning obscenity, sexual consent and public nudity constructing boundaries between good sex and that condemned variously as perverse, dangerous or immoral (Munro and Stychin, 2007). Those who transgress these laws can find themselves marginalized, with the law used as an instrument for ostracizing and punishing those whose sexual practices and attitudes deviate from the norm (Johnson and Dalton, 2011). Much of the scholarship in this field accordingly explores the impacts of policing on sexual conduct and feeds into campaigns arguing for extended rights of citizenship for those queer subjects marginalized by dominant norms. Typically, such scholarship also takes aim at legislation passed at the national or even supra-national scale, arguing that this © Philip Hubbard. Published by Emerald Group Publishing Limited. This article is published under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 3.0) licence. Anyone may reproduce, distribute, translate and create derivative works of this article (for both commercial & non-commercial purposes), subject to full attribution to the original publication and authors. The full terms of this licence may be seen at http://creativecommons.org/licences/by/3.0/legalcode. This work was supported by the Economic and Social Research Council, Grant ES/J002755/1 Sexualisation, nuisance and safety: Sexual Entertainment Venues and the management of risk. Law, sex and the city 5 Received 19Janary 2014 Revised 17June 2014 8 October 2014 13 October 2014 Accepted 20 October 2014 International Journal of Law in the Built Environment Vol.7 No.1, 2015 pp. 5-20 Emerald GroupPublishing Limited 175I1450 DOI 10.1108/IJLBE-D1-2014000x1

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