Club to extend 'smoking garden' (From York Press)

Club to extend 'smoking garden'

6:45pm Sunday 30th September 2007

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A NIGHTCLUB is set to extend its roof-top smoking garden just months after it opened - after it proved a massive success with clubbers.

Planners from City of York Council have given the go-ahead for the £30,000 purpose-built area at Nexus to be expanded.

The club's owners said the area appeared to have attracted extra business for Nexus, possibly from other city centre venues lacking such provision.

They said that when the ban on smoking in enclosed public areas came into effect on July 1, the club on George Hudson Street was the only one in the area to create a purpose-built area for smokers.

Russ Brown, director of McMillan York which also owns nearby bpm bar on Rougier Street, said: "We spent significantly at both venues to accommodate our regular customers who smoke, and in doing so seem to have attracted lots of new customers, possibly migrating from other clubs that have no provision for smokers."

He said that investing £30,000 in a smoking area had not been an easy decision to make, but it had added a new dimension to the club.

"It is so popular with both smokers and non-smokers that we need to extend it to accommodate everyone," he said.

• See tomorrow's Press for full details.

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