It’s Area Committee time again: 6pm on Tuesday 24th September 2013 at Bolshaw Primary School, Cross Road, Heald Green.
Up for discussion this time include
- Planning application 52823 – to build a new house to the rear of 103 Gatley Road – coming back as we were concerned last time about how close it was to the Ambleside and Patterdale homes.
- Planning application 52858 – change of use of 20 Old Rectory Gardens from off-license to hot food takeaway
- Proposed quiet cycle route from Cheadle to Parrs Wood along Kingsway (I’ll write a separate piece about this).
- Amendments to parking restrictions outside Gatley Primary School following residents consultation
- Implementation of proposals for Cheadle village centre (discussed at the last meeting, this is after the legal advertising notice)
- Yellow lines to improve safety on St Ann’s Road North
- Application from Cheadle Civic Society for Makers’ Market on Cheadle Green
Iain, the planning application is yet another attempt to swamp Cheadle and Gatley with Indian takeaways . I presume you will be against this for the following reasons:
The litter, parking, smell arguments don’t need to be restated I would suggest.
The last time I enquired about a food outlet on Rectory Gardens, I was turned down on the basis that there were already too many food outlets and no m ore would be allowed. if this application were to be granted, I would take a dim view and legal action if I thought any form of positive discrimination was taking place.
Lastly, I understand that the applicant is the same person who obtained a licence for the RBS building in Gatley. This application should therefore be blocked not the basis it is anti competitive and monopolistic.
Hi Alan,
I’m opposed to new takeaways in the area and, as always, we’ll need to judge the application on its merits and decide according to the current rules.
The unit already has permission to be a restaurant, and it isn’t any part of the planning system to look at the ownership of units and consider whether ownership would be anti-competitive (there are laws that do that, but they aren’t in planning).
I hope councillors will recall how long it as taken to get KFC – in rectory gardens – to sort out their smelly and noisy extractor unit! Over 3 years with little or no help from the planning department and enforcement officers at stockport council. It has been down to the dogged determination of residents on Warren Ave that kfc have agreed to do anything and still the matter is not fully resolved! Its not the councillors who have to live with the noise and air pollution caused by these take-aways as they do not live near them – and what happened to the old rule that any new take-aways should not be sited within 30 mtrs of existing ones?
Hi Kath – I’ve not heard of that 30m rule – can you give me any more information on that?
With the extractor, I understand the issue and know what residents had to put up with. We need to ensure that there are conditions to deal with noise and smells, but we can’t legally reject an application on the basis that we don’t think someone will follow the conditions.