The Cheadle Area Committee heard a planning application from Kentucky Fried Chicken on Tuesday.  They’d previously installed a change to the top section of the extraction duct and moved condensors, and they’re looking for retrospective approval.

There were several concerned residents (Warren Avenue and Dixon Court are most affected).  The complaints were about the noise and the smell.

The environmental issues are complicated by there being three takeaways on that parade, so it’s not certain which are responsible (and it may be all three).  In terms of this planning application, we could only talk about KFC and only about what they’d actually applied for.

The planning officers had recommended a condition for approval that the noise from KFC not exceed the existing background noise by more than 5 decibels.  That sounds sensible to me, and would also give residents an important new legal avenue to force KFC to comply.

The committee decided that it was important to see, hear and smell what was going on before a decision was made (especially as one resident was concerned some of the photos we’d been given were misleading).

There will be a site visit by councillors on 2nd September after which the decision will be taken by the Council’s Planning & Highways committee that evening.  The Planning & Highways committee meets at the Town Hall at 6pm on 2nd September.  Members of the public are welcome to attend but can’t speak in the meeting.

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