In Sutton, a new eatery with hot food takeaway may open shortly if Ashfield District Council approves it.
A planning application for the restaurant and takeout at The Broad Centre retail park has been received by the municipality.
The idea is to temporarily split the Poundland-occupied space into two stores, with the restaurant housed in one of them.
Thursday through Saturday, it would be open from 5 a.m. to 3 a.m. and Sunday through Wednesday, from 5 a.m. to 12 a.m. Additionally, it would provide a home delivery courier service from 6 a.m. to 12 a.m., seven days a week.
District planners are being asked for approval by the owners of a retail park in Sutton in Ashfield to turn a portion of one of the units into a restaurant and takeaway business. The Broad Centre in Station Road, Sutton is owned by the BBC Pension Trust, and they wish to break Unit B—which is occupied by a Poundland—into smaller sections.
The BBC’s consultants, Burnett Planning & Development Ltd., claim in a letter to planners that they do not need planning permission in order to partition the unit or utilise a portion of it for dining. According to their description, the site’s current permits would let it to be utilised as a “restaurant or café where the consumption of food and drink is mostly undertaken on the premises.” “The approved use would facilitate the selling of hot meal takeaway as a component of a cafe or restaurant as long as the takeaway component was not the main feature.
However, they also state that a lot of national restaurant operators now demand a complete consent for mixed restaurants and hot food takeaway because their business is more evenly split between eat-in and takeaway, with no clear predominant use, especially in light of the rise in online home delivery services in recent years.
“The application responds to the changing nature of the restaurant market and seeks to confirm that a restaurant use with a broadly even mix of eat-in and takeaway will be allowed, even though the need for planning permission in this case is marginal given that restaurant use with a non-predominant take-away element is already permitted.”
“The premises to be marketed to a wider range of restaurant operators, reflecting up to date requirements in the food / drink sector,” is how they describe the altered authorization.
A new planning application for any necessary exterior changes would be submitted when tenant requirements are verified, assuming planning approval is granted and a tenant is located.
