AN APPLICATION to bring lap dancers to Bolton has been deferred until the end of the month.

Councillors were due to debate a proposal for dancing sessions at Bar Juice, on Mawdsley Street, this week.

The bar's owner, Paul Roberts, has applied to vary condition 23 of his current public entertainment licence for the second floor of the premises.

The condition states that the licensee shall not "suffer, allow or permit any exhibition, recitation, acting singing or dancing which is obscene, offensive to public decency or calculated to excite any breach of the peace".

The application will now be heard on February 25.

Solicitors and other business people with offices near the bar have already condemned the proposal. One solicitors practice, Kippax Beaumont Lewis, is threatening to leave Bolton for good if the owners of Bar Juice are given the go-ahead.

Last month licensing chiefs gave the go-ahead for Bolton's first pole dancing club at The Office on Manor Street in Bolton town centre.

The plan was approved unanimously after councillors were told the dancers will not dance nude.

The girls will wear bra, hotpants and sometimes tight, lycra trousers and the men shorts.

The owners of the club is hoping to recruit dancers later this month.