Chapter 10 Retail
We fully support CPO 10.14 objective in this draft plan based on the original No Fry Zone objective RT17 adopted into the Wicklow County Development Plan 2016 - 2022. We wish to further strengthen the robust of this objective by amending the wording to include "24 hours a day, 7 days a week" to ensure the spirit and integrity of the objective is not circumnavigated as demonstrated in a planning application in 2018. See below in bold proposed amendment. Supporting information detailed in the submission.
CP 10.14 Conscious of the fact that planning has an important role to play in promoting and facilitating active and healthy living patterns for local communities, the following criteria will be taken into account in the assessment of development proposals for fast-food/takeaway outlets[1], including those with a drive through facility:
- Exclude any new fast-food/takeaway outlet from being built or from operating within 400m of the gates or site boundary of schools or playgrounds 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, excluding premises zoned town centre;
- Fast food outlets/takeaways with proposed drive through facilities will generally only be acceptable within Major Town Centres or District Centres and will be assessed on a case-by-case basis;
- Location of vents and other external services and their impact on adjoining amenities in terms of noise/smell/visual impact.
[1] For the purposes of RT17, "fast food/takeaway outlet" shall mean any outlet whose business will primarily be the sale of hot or otherwise prepared food that is high in fat, salt or sugar (such food being heated or prepared on the premises comprising of the outlet) for consumption on or off the premises comprising of the outlet.