London council planners insist a new block of flats must have a gay bar as a condition of the development – and they will send workers there to check it is ‘LGBT-friendly’ enough

‘London council planners have told developers that a new block of flats must include a gay bar – and they will send inspectors to check it’s gay enough.
Tower Hamlets bosses will only let the site of closed gay bar the Joiners Arms be built on if the developers promise to include a pub that will ‘remain a lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender-focused venue for a minimum of 12 years’.
London’s culture at risk officer Ed Bayes will make sure the person running the bar is ‘sufficiently LGBT’.
Council chiefs issued the diktat because Tower Hamlets has lost seven of its 10 LGBT venues since 2006, as meet-up apps such as Grindr and Tinder replace nights out.’
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