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Response 3690820

Response to request for information

Reference

3690820

Response date

9 April 2025

Request

  1. If your local authority has planning criteria which determine the acceptability of planning applications for new Class A5 (or "Sui generis") hot food takeaway outlets, contained in an adopted or interim policy or guidance document (such as a Local Plan, Supplementary Planning Document, or Development Management Plan), please can you send us a copy of this document.

Example criteria include traffic and parking considerations, the requirement of a health impact assessment, preventing high concentration of outlets in certain areas, exclusion zones around schools, and restricted opening hours.

  1. If your adopted policy or guidance document superseded any previous versions that also contained Class A5 (or "Sui generis") hot food takeaway outlets planning criteria, please also send us the previous editions of this document.
  2. If you no longer have an adopted policy or guidance document that contains Class A5 (or "Sui generis") hot food takeaway outlets planning criteria, but these criteria were contained in any superseded documents that are now out-of-date, please send us a copy of these out-of-date documents.
  3. If you have never had an adopted policy or guidance document that contained Class A5 (or "Sui generis") hot food takeaway outlets planning criteria, please let us know. In these cases, if there are any current HFT planning policies included in a consultation document/draft Local Plan that has not been adopted yet, please send us a copy of this document and confirm its date of publication.
  4. If you have answered YES to questions (1), (2) or (3), please can you confirm the date(s) that the relevant policies actually came into effect and/or stopped being applied, being as exact as possible.

Response

All planning policy documents are available to view on our website.

The Development Plan constitutes the adopted Local Plan Part 1: Core Strategy and the adopted Local Plan Part 2: Land and Planning Policies as well as relevant adopted Neighbourhood Plans. Policies 25 and 26 of Local Plan Part 2 include consideration in relation to Hot Food Takeaways in relation to District, Local and Neighbourhood Centres. The dates these Policies were adopted are available to view on our website.

It should be noted however that policy considerations are dependant on the specifics of an application submitted.

The Emerging Local Plan is available to view online.

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