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Plans for new takeaway next to Nottingham supermarket approved

A hot food takeaway will be built next to a Nottingham supermarket after plans were approved by the council.

The new eatery will adjoin the building currently occupied by the Heron Foods store, located on St Ann’s Well Road in St Ann’s.

Developer Resilienti (St Anns) Ltd is behind the plans for the takeaway, which will span across 93 square metres.

Nottingham City Council approved plans on Wednesday, April 16, giving the green light for building works to go ahead. Documents do not list a name for the takeaway.

The current building, which was once the Westminster Pub, has Heron Foods located on the ground floor and residential flats on the second floor.

The “relatively small size of the premises and its location” means several customers are “likely to travel by foot or cycle”, the document adds.

Residents raised concerns around noise and air pollution, longer operating hours, anti-social behaviour and traffic congestion following a public consultation.

Addressing concerns, the takeaway can now only open to customers between 7am to 11pm on Monday to Sunday and Bank Holidays.

There will be no vehicle deliveries or waste collections allowed before 8am on weekdays, before 9am on weekends and bank holidays, and after 10pm on any day.

This is to reduce noise disturbance to nearby residents, documents say.

The planning application reads: “The applicant has confirmed no extraction flues would be proposed therefore, minimising any noise impact and odour concerns.

“There is a bin storage area located to the rear which the unit would
utilise.

“Conditions are recommended to restrict the use of the unit to a Class E retail unit and to prevent installation of ventilation and extraction facilities associated with cooking in order to protect the living conditions of neighbouring residents.

“In addition, conditions controlling hours of use, servicing and refuse arrangements, and provision of plant are all required to attenuate noise to protect the living conditions of residents.”

A 28-space car park located to the side of Heron Foods will lose seven car parking slots after the extension is complete, leaving 21 spaces remaining.

The extension is unlikely generate a “significant amount of on-street parking”, planning documents say.