New chapter for adult shop

By Shaun Inguanzo
A DANDENONG South sex bookshop ravaged by fire in October has been granted a temporary permit to trade.
G-Spot Adult Superstore owner Deborah Bateman was shattered by the disaster which happened just one week before the shop’s first birthday.
But unlike other businesses, the sensitive treatment council gives to sex bookshops meant that Ms Bateman could not trade temporarily without a permit.
This week, Greater Dandenong Council granted Ms Bateman a six-month permit to trade temporarily at 234-238 Dandenong-Frankston Road.
The permit will allow Ms Bateman to trade while her shopfront is repaired.
The temporary site will be a relocatable room on the grassed area outside Ms Bateman’s destroyed shop.
“It’s fantastic,” she said with excitement.
“I’ve been given a permit that extends until May 2007 which is great, because even though the builders have said (the shop will be repaired by) March or April, it gives me a couple of months leeway.
“And if I am there while they’re building, I can tell them to hurry up!”
Ms Bateman said she was hoping to open her temporary shop by 7 January.