The council's controversial decision to close the Warehouse Nightclub on North Road is to be reconsidered by the licensing committee.

Solicitors representing the club's owner, Mrs Maureen Harding, have written to the council saying its decision was "perverse" and failed to give due regard to the Home Office's 'Good Practice Guide.'

They have called on the council to re-instate the public entertainment licence and the committee will now be reconvened to hear deliberations from both sides.

The club's owners also have the right of appeal to the magistrates court.

Mrs Harding said she welcomed the chance to present the facts before the committee.

She said: "I was taken aback at the last committee by some of the things that were said by the police simply because couldn't believe you could say things like that without any evidence.

I have run the club for seven months without any significant incidents, showing due diligence to the problem of drugs and taking firm action.

I honestly believe we were running the safest most drug free club in the area but the councillors were swayed by the wild, exaggerated claims made by the police.

"It's a shame that, because of all the publicity, this has become a battle between two sides.

I just want a fair and impartial hearing based on the appropriate Home Office guidelines."

In a letter sent to the city council, solicitor, Mr Anthony Curzon, claims that the council decision was wrong because there was no evidence of a current problem and that the police themselves had failed to comply with the Home Office guidelines because they had not made the licensee aware of their intended action, had given no advice or offered a conciliation period, had not liaised with other bodies before submitting a report and had denied Mrs Harding the opportunity to co-operate or implement any recommendations.

A spokesman for the council confirmed that the committee will be reconvened and said: "Paragraph 11A of the Schedule 1 to the Local Government Act 1982 provides that following the revocation of a licence or the imposition of conditions, the licence holder exercises this right, the authority must consider any representations within 21 days.

Mrs Harding's solicitors have now submitted written representations and accordingly the committee is to be reconvened to consider these representations."