The closure comes after complaints suggested the community café was operating without consent on Beaumont Street.

Official submissions led to an inspection conducted by Newcastle City Council, which revealed Fellowship House had “no consent” to be operating as an entertainment facility, and did not comply with regulation fire safety requirements.

It’s hard news to swallow for the young adult community that lost The Loft in 2013, and now they are left searching for an alternative again.

Since the news of council inspection, Boys Don’t Cry Collective has founded a petition that proposes “council provide a replacement solution as soon as possible”.

So far more than 3,600 signatures have been provided for the change.org petition.

The community’s response, petition founder Andrew Brassington said, is a strong testament to how important spaces like The Commons are to young adults looking to enjoy live music.

“We had more than 3000 signatures in less than three days, and that’s not just from Newcastle,” Brassington said. “People in this town and country are passionate about fostering local music scenes.”

Council has stated that they are looking to work with the Uniting Church, which owns Fellowship House, to bring the building up to standard fire safety compliance in the near future.

“We will work with the church to make the building compliant,” a spokesperson for the council said. “The Uniting Church voluntarily ceased operations and has assured Council that any future activities would first go through the necessary approvals process to ensure the safety of occupants.”

The Commons was founded in 2012 on first floor of the Uniting Church building at 150 Beaumont Street, Hamilton, and will have operated as a live music venue for eight months by the time ‘last soft drinks’ are called.

It’s the possibility of a new and exciting future that The Commons committee, and co-founder Tim Evans, are taking away from the situation.

“We’re not sure of what we are going to do doing in the short term, but there’s a lot of different people, parties and players that make up The Commons so we want to have a unified approach,” Evans said. “We want to make sure that we can get the best result for the community out of all these uncertain times.”

“The discussion now if whether we take some concessions and keep working out of that space, or if we look for a larger space that maybe doesn’t have some limitations. That’s what the plan for the meeting will be.”

Evans is hopeful that the short term change will mean long term improvement, and wants input at a meeting that will be hosted at Fellowship House next week.

“I’m hugely excited right now about what we can do with this situation,” he said. “It’s going to potentially be a fantastic thing, we want to steer all this positive energy that people have had since the news into creating another vibrant and great gathering.”

Boys Don’t Cry Collective revealed that The Commons will host just three more gigs before its closure.

The first show will be Paper Thin’s performance on Friday, December 1, and a week later Vacations will play their hometown gig for the “Moving Out” tour on Friday, December 9.

The final Commons show will be hosted on Wednesday, December 20, with organisers promising a huge line-up for the goodbye event. An announcement for which bands will play the last show will be announced in early December.

“We don’t want to lose the crowds of young adults that come to these events, we often get crowds into the hundreds for these gigs,” Brassington said. “In terms of the bands themselves, it gives them a chance to learn their craft in front of happy crowds. There’s nowhere for under 18 bands to perform.”

The meeting to discuss the future of The Commons will be hosted at Fellowship House on at 6.30pm, Wednesday December 6.

Sign the petition online at change.org/p/newcastle-city-council-petition-for-newcastle-city-council-to-create-or-support-an-all-ages-live-music-venue.