Hot Food Takeaways
6.46 Shops selling hot food are popular with Calderdale’s residents, and are also much appreciated by visitors. However, the siting of such businesses can create environmental problems by reason of smell, litter, noise, or additional traffic, especially to local residents. Whilst generally wishing to support hot food shops, the Council will only do so if the siting and implementation of the schemes create no unacceptable environmental, amenity, traffic or other problems.
Policy S 15
Hot Food Takeaways
Proposals for hot food takeaways will be permitted where they comply with the following criteria:-- no unacceptable environmental, safety or other problems are created;
- the proposed development would not increase the level of disturbance or nuisance to a level that would be unduly detrimental to the amenities enjoyed by anyone living in the area;
- the proposed development would not generate traffic movements or demand for parking that would be unduly detrimental to highway safety or residential amenities;
- the proposals make adequate and satisfactory arrangements for the discharge of cooking fumes and smells;
- the proposals comply with shopping frontage policy;
- the development preserves or enhances Conservation Areas and does not adversely affect Listed Buildings or their settings, where these are material considerations; and
- other relevant UDP policies are met.
Proposals should apply a sequential approach to site location. Sites or buildings within town and local centres defined in the retail hierarchy or within other unnamed small parades of shops within the urban areas or smaller settlements should be considered first and, only when such sites or buildings are not available will proposals in freestanding locations be acceptable. Where proposals are considered to be acceptable, restrictions may be imposed on hours of opening in order to protect the amenity and character of the area within which the site is located.