Full council will have to decide whether or not to agree Calderdale’s Licensing of Sex Establishments policy this week.

It includes performers in sex establishments being able to reveal all but also limiting the number of venues in the borough at any one time to just one – effectively at the moment the already licensed lap-dancing club La Salsa at Silver Street, Halifax.

At tomorrow’s Calderdale Council meeting at Halifax Town Hall (July 18, 6pm) councillors will be asked to approve the policy including recommendations made by its cross-party Licensing and Regulatory Committee last month following public consultation and legal advice taken at its meeting.

The committee agreed that a condition be removed from the new licensing policy stating performers: “must at all times wear a non-transparent g-string or similar piece of clothing on the appropriate part of the body and at no time reveal any part of their genitalia or anus”.

The request had been made during consultation over the new policy by La Salsa.

But no touching will be allowed – performers must still remain a minimum of 300 millimetres from customers – if the new policy is fully approved.

And a request made during the consultation from another respondent that “seductive images on the windows” should be allowed by amending a condition which states “there shall be no window display of licensed sex articles” was turned down and the restriction remains.

Councillors also amended other sections of the draft policy including taking into account any development in the surrounding community when a licence came up for the annual renewal.