Councillors are concerned about the large number of applications for local therapeutic massage parlours.
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Cr Michael McDermott, who takes a strong anti-brothel stance, led the change to tighten controls on sex services and restricted premises to ensure remedial massage parlours were not used for “purposes other than remedial massage’’.
“The objective of the change is to ensure that anyone who applies to open such a massage parlour or works in a massage parlour in Parramatta must have a recognised Australian qualification or the equivalent, and they legitimately intend to offer only therapeutic massage,’’ Cr McDermott said.
“We currently have 16 such massage parlours in the Parramatta CBD alone. Internationally and across Australia, these are often used for provide sex services. It would be naive of us to think that such a problem may not have spread to Parramatta. These changes will help to control an emerging problem.’’
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