CONTROVERSIAL plans to open a sex shop near a school in Barbourne will go before Worcester City Council's licensing committee later this month.

The council has so far received more than 100 objections to the application to licence the shop on Barbourne Road, which is just 100 yards from St George's CE Primary School.

Members of the licensing committee will discuss the plans at the Guildhall on Wednesday, April 23, at 9.30am.

The applicant is Kevin Mitchell, from a Leeds-based firm called Provincial Enterprises.

If it is granted, it will be Worcester's second sex shop, with the other in Lowesmoor.

The headteacher of St George's School has slammed plans to open the shop on the site of the former Victoria Wine off-licence.

He has written to the parents of his 210 pupils to inform them about the application.

"It is not the kind of place schoolchildren as young as four years old should have to walk past," he said.

City councillor, Richard Bird has also urged the public to write to the council opposing the application.

"It is not really the type of shop that fits in with a butcher, a baker and a candlestick maker," he said.