A UK publication recently reported that a film crew plans to make a documentary about the controversy over Horsham, England’s adult shop, due to open next month.
The complaints and objections began in late February, said the report, when the message “Adult Shop Coming Soon” was noticed on the window of an empty shop site at the north end of the city.
Horsham Today reported that although it has been predictably condemned as unsuitable for a residential street, planning regulations allow the adult shop to be opened without any planning application having to be submitted. Licensing as a sex shop would be required to sell hardcore videos and DVDs though.
Now, Horsham-based independent film and video maker freezedriedham has decided the controversy would make good material for a new documentary. The report said that the film company hopes to interview some of the objectors and, if possible, site freeholder Peter Everitt.
Everitt came under harassment after his decision to allow an adult shop owner to move in as a tenant. In the past, the story continued, he has been told that planning rules do not allow it to be used as an office or turned into housing.
Horsham's Salvation Army, based nearby, has reportedly started a petition against the shop.
