A DEADLINE has been set for a hotel to comply with new licensing conditions after fears were raised current measures are 'inadequate’ and 'a potential risk to children and young people’.

Baylis House Hotel has had 24 conditions applied to a new premises licence and has been given until October 3 to comply with all of the conditions, relating to access security and CCTV of the exterior among other things, after two possible incidents of child sexual exploitation (CSE).

Slough Borough Council licensing sub-committee made the decision on Tuesday after Thames Valley Police licensing officers raised concerns following the incidents on January 22 and July 28 this year, but decided not to suspend its licence while the conditions were implemented.

An external trainer for Slough Borough Council allegedly witnessed a young girl, aged between 15 and 18, having sex with an older man, in his 20s, at the Stoke Poges Lane hotel in January in an open bedroom doorway, and described the girls as 'comatose and lifeless’.

The second incident in July was a missing 15-year-old girl, vulnerable to CSE, who was reportedly seen at the hotel. She was not found but reviews of CCTV images showed another female entering a side entrance with an Asian male, believed to be from a group of five young males ejected from the hotel later that evening.

Investigations for both incidents have proved inconclusive, due to unwillingness of victims to talk to police and lack of evidence.

A crime reduction survey, one of the conditions for the hotel, was carried out on June 23 and revealed that exits and windows were not secure.

Anne Chalmers, police crime reduction officer, said: “Baylis House is not a secure site.” The hotel said it fully supports efforts to crackdown on CSE.

Winston Brown, Baylis House solicitor, said the hotel had 'moved on’ from its concerns of profit over protection, after originally rejecting condition 23 on the grounds it would affect its corporate bookings.

“Baylis House fully understands the issues and are willing to move forward with the business with 24 conditions,” he said.

A statement read out during the hearing stated it was the only hotel in the area that carries photo ID checks.

It read: “This clearly demonstrates our commitment to cooperate and help in anyway possible in spite of considerable potential detriment to business and the risk to the viability of the company.” The statement added: “We now accept condition 23, not because we agree with the taking of ID, but because we feel that we owe it to society.”