Lap-dancing at an Oxford bar is to be closely monitored, after councillors expressed concern about the activity.

Businesses and homes near the Baby bar in Cowley Road, Oxford, are to be sent leaflets explaining in detail the conditions attached to a special entertainment licence allowing topless table-side and pole dancing.

They will be urged to report anything that might amount to a breach of conditions. But the bar's manager Martin Forde said the move was a "witch hunt".

Baby bar is expected to begin entertaining customers with dancers on Sundays from 5pm until midnight before Christmas, after Oxford City Council's licensing panel granted permission on November 4.

The move was opposed by more than 500 people, local churches, schools and the Muslim community.

The city council's east area committee will ask environmental health officers to prioritise strict monitoring of the bar to ensure conditions are obeyed.

Dancers will have to wear at least G-strings.

The committee agreed area co-ordinator Fergus Lapage should look at distributing leaflets to residents.

Councillor Craig Simmons, who proposed the close monitoring of the lap dancing, said: "We can't overturn the decision of the licensing committee. It was a bad decision, but is legally binding.

"Environmental health officers are massively overstretched, so we want to reinforce to them the importance of this and make sure it is prioritised. Leafleting people means they can help us."

Baby bar manager Martin Forde was surprised by the lengths the committee was taking to watch his business and said the leaflets would be a waste of taxpayers' money.

"People on this committee have appointed themselves the moral caretakers of consenting adults. This amount of vigilance implies environmental health don't do their job properly and need to be told, and suggests I am so irresponsible I need to be watched closely."