London saves iconic gay bar as ‘important community asset’.

The Backstreet boasts that it has the ‘strictest fetish dress code in Europe’. (Photograph: Courtesy of the Backstreet)

The UK’s last remaining strict leather and rubber fetish gay club has been saved after a London council blocked plans to redevelop the East End site into a 12-storey residential tower.

Tower Hamlets ruled against the proposed 46-flat development…