Business owner Majella Gall plans to open a brothel/escort agency and adult sex shop in conjunction with a strip club in Tamworth’s Taminda industrial estate in less than a fortnight.

Her application to establish the 24-hour-a-day, seven-day-a-week brothel, strip service and sex shop within an existing building and to build a strip club/restaurant complex seating about 150 people is currently on public display at Tamworth City Council.

Ms Gall has operated and sought to secure a permanent base for her business in the city for the past three-and-a-half-years having submitted her fourth development application, this time for 22 Belmore St, earlier this month.

She said previous DAs for brothels in William St and Marius St were rejected by council for varying reasons including close proximity to licenced premises and incorrect zoning.

She said her DA for a brothel in Denison St was approved but never established as the sale of the building fell through.

Her hopes are now pinned on the The Erotic Garden (brothel), The Pleasure Garden (sex shop) and The Secret Garden (strip club) which, if approved, would be the second council-approved brothel operating in Tamworth.

The DA is due before council’s Technical and Environment Services Committee on May 15 where a recommendation to be put before the full council on May 22 will be made.

But Ms Gall plans to open the doors offering all services on May 1, three weeks before council’s consideration as under NSW law brothels can operate without council approval.

“All council can do is serve notice to close us down and that will go to the Land and Environment Court anyway,” she said.

Ms Gall believes her application and plans meet all criteria set out in council’s Regulation of Brothels and legally should be given development approval.

The only exception is the premise is within 150m of a dwelling.

“It doesn’t make sense

to zone brothels industrial and then reject a brothel application on the grounds that a residential dwelling is in the middle of the Taminda industrial area,” Ms Gall said.

“The stupidity of the law is that we can operate out of a motel with mum, dad and the kids next door but can’t operate out of a premises because there’s a home 150m away.”

Ms Gall said based on legal advice she believes the Land and Environment Court would most likely overturn council’s decision not approve the DA.

Ideally for the sake of court costs she hopes it will not go that far.

“It’s better to run a business in premises designed for the business,” she said.