An appeal has been lodged with the Secretary of State against an enforcement notice issued over the use of a city car park by a burger van.
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Cyril Catering Ltd’s appeal relates to Lorne Road car park in Oldfield Park.
Although reached from Lorne Road, the car park is on the corner of Brougham Hayes and Lower Bristol Road.
The ‘King Grill’ van began selling burgers, wraps and chips from there at the start of last May.
Last July, a retrospective change of use application for a mixed use of the land as both a private car park and for stationing a mobile hot food vehicle was lodged with Bath & North East Somerset Council by the company.
The application said the car park is leased to a local employer from 6am to 5pm Mondays to Fridays, and has nine spaces which are also sometimes rented out separately at weekends.
It said the mobile food van would operate between 5pm and 11pm Monday to Friday and from noon to 11pm at weekends and would be unlikely to have an impact on people living nearby; most customers could and would travel by sustainable methods, the generator was described as “super-quiet” and all waste would be removed daily.
Independent councillor for Westmoreland ward, June Player, had voiced concerns about the negative impact of a seven-day-a-week takeaway in such a densely populated area including the extra traffic, smells and the noise from gulls.
She also said that greenery and hedgerow had been removed from the car park at the start of last year which has been left “standing out like a sore thumb”.
Cyril Catering Ltd withdrew its planning application last September, and appeal proceedings have now begun against an enforcement notice issued by the council.
