A planning inspector has thrown out a planned mixed-use development by Galliard Homes that would have resulted in the demolition of a famous fetish club in Tower Hamlets in east London.

Despite Galliard’s offer to reinstate the Backstreet bar club, which was founded in Mile End in 1985, in the basement of the new building, planning inspector Julia Gregory said she was not convinced the venue would be well-received by those residents with young children living above.