Restaurant to open on DCM’s site
A restaurant and function centre is to open on the site of the old DCMs nightclub.
The Mediterranean, operated by the same company that runs the Tandoori Palace and karaoke room at 86 Oxford St, will be allowed to trade noon to midnight Sunday to Thursday and to 2am on Friday and Saturday nights under a one-year trial. The Mediterranean will have a capacity of 305 patrons, down 95 from the site’s previous use as a nightclub. A maximum of 10 patrons will be permitted to smoke outside.
Residents group Hyde Park Community Voice is unhappy with the way the development application was approved and is concerned the Mediterranean has listed bucks and hens nights among possible events on its website.
Councillors did not call the application to committee so the DA was left to council staff to approve.
Most of council is currently on leave, however, Greens councillor Irene Doutney could not recall receiving objections while the DA was on display, while Labor councillor Meredith Burgmann said she had received just one.
Doutney said she had been following the DA and was relieved the new operators were offering something different.
“My main reasons for not calling it to council were that it was a change of use to a pre-paid and booked restaurant and [function] centre and that the applicant was a known restaurateur, not a gangster or pub chain,” Doutney said.
“There were concerns raised by police but I believe these have been addressed by the stringent conditions of consent imposed by staff.”
Police objected to plans to provide nightclub passes to patrons, and said that if buses were used to drop off patrons they should return to collect them at the end of events.
The operator has since ditched plans to provide club passes.
Doutney said she was committed to finding a balance between the area’s nighttime economy and residents’ amenity, and the regeneration of Oxford St through small business and the arts.
I think everyone should protest for dcm to reopen even if we have to close it earlier it should reopen and people who don’t like it should move out of the area we shouldnt have to close a club thats Been open for 20years and that would make more money than Anythig else and any other club
Reopen dcm!!!!! Join the group I miss dcm on facebook and maybe post ur ideas get a whole big group write a letter etc
I wish they wud stop closing NRG clubs (Havana bar, the gaff). They shud just reopen unsydney n that is that fullstop thankyou!!
We live in the most restrictive society in the world. Everything revolves around preventing people from having a good time and every year there is more laws and regulations being introduced to do exactly that – this is the perfect example. DCM was in fact the best nightclub in Australia, by far.
Regarding the noise, if you want quiet move out to the suburbs where it is quiet. Inner city areas are noisy and if you don’t like noise don’t live there. Let the club stay and let the people have fun.
This is the usual case of the minority spoiling it for the majority – very disappointing… and agreed, great point above, maybe we should cancel the Mardi Gras.
What a shame, the best nightclub in Sydney has now been closed and being replaced with a pathetic restaurant / function centre. Thanks to all the whining residents who have a cry because we can go and have fun while they are in bed by 10pm on a Saturday night… remember the club has been there for 18 years, long before 99% of the complaining residents even lived there… Just wait till Clover Moore is out of power and a rational person is in her place… Maybe we all should complain and get the Mardi Gras cancelled, ruin your fun as well…
F**K Australia’s Pathetic Rules & Laws…
havana is to small to event DCM we need UN sydney back those were the days ! agree 110 percent with george best club sydney has ever seen. miss dancn on the podium under the disco balls. havana just doesnt have the atmosphere un sydney have. Now the greatest nightclub in australia’s history in my opinion will be turned into something that will struggle to get 100 people to turn up in one night. such a shame.
there goes the best club sydney has ever seen from the 90z to 2008 rip <3