A crunch meeting on the New Cross sex cinema is taking place next week - but council documents show only two objections against its application to show movies.

Club 487 on New Cross Road has been up and running without a licence for half a year now, showing hardcore pornography beneath a disused printing shop to punters who pleasure themselves and each other in the auditorium.

Ahead of a licensing meeting at Catford town hall, it has been claimed that primary school children have tried to get inside the venue, while one woman said she deliberately avoids walking past because she no longer feels safe.

In her objection, the resident wrote: "I was accosted numerous times by men who would not take no for an answer when they were trying to chat me up outside the premises.

"This is the only place that this has happened to me while I'm in London.

"Being an overseas student for many years in many places, I have never felt so uncomfortable as I have done outside these premises."

And the ward's Councillor Brenda Dacres is particularly concerned that the club is directly opposite Addey and Stanhope School.

She said: "There is a high probability that it will be a negative influence to young children attending the school due to its proximity, as well as even young children who travel to other local schools.

"I strongly feel that this will cause harm to children as it sends a message that this kind of establishment is acceptable in the area."

The licensing application, in the name of Peter Jones, describes the cinema as "an adult environment for people meet/socialise" with no children allowed.

Mr Jones previously told News Shopper: "It's just a nice comfortable place for mature, sensible people to come and enjoy themselves."

However, when this paper paid a visit, we found people having group sex in the aisles while men stood watching and playing with themselves.

Even if the licence is refused on June 2, the club may still carry on. The venue is believed to be run by the people behind notorious Finsbury sex cinema Fantasy Video, which stayed open for nine months after giving up its licence before a court order finally shut it down.