The Arches is taking legal advice as it plans to appeal late-night license removal

Glasgow club The Arches is planning to appeal a decision to revoke its late-night license and this week's events will go ahead as planned.

A licensing board last week took the venue's 3am license away because of "drug and alcohol-related" incidents, but a statement from the club points out that these were minor in comparison to the amount of customers.

With the club's board seeking legal aid, the statement says the closure of the club "will have a devastating effect" on the multi-use venue, and executive director Mark Anderson expresses his disappointment at the outcome.

"We are still stunned by Friday's decision and at a loss to understand just what more we could have done to provide a safer clubbing environment at The Arches. Over the period under review, we welcomed over 250,000 clubbers through our doors. Of that number, just 0.14% were reported for misuse of drugs incidents.

"What is more worrying is that despite the increased safety measures we adopted on the recommendation of Police Scotland, which had already alienated many of our valued club customers, our successful operation of those policies has resulted in the statistics being used against us."

A petition was launched at the weekend to have the 3am license reinstated, picking up over 30,000 signatures, with Jackmaster, Erol Alkan, Skream and Hudson Mohawke among the scores of DJs backing it.

Check out the full statement here and go to The Arches website to see what's on this week.

[Via: FACT]