A planning application has been submitted to Bath & North East Somerset Council to carry on using a private car park in Oldfield Park as a venue for selling hot food from a van every day.
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Cyril Catering Ltd’s retrospective application is to change the site in Lorne Road to a mixed-use car park and stationing hot food takeaway vehicle.
The ‘King Grill’ van began selling burgers, wraps and chips from the car park at the start of May.
Although the car park is accessed from Lorne Road, it is on the corner of Brougham Hayes and Lower Bristol Road.
The car park is currently leased to a local employer from 6am to 5pm, Mondays to Fridays, and can accommodate nine parking spaces. Spaces are sometimes also rented out separately at the weekends.
The plan is to keep it as a private car park between 6am and 5pm during the week and to rent out a few car parking spaces at weekends.
The mobile hot food takeaway vehicle will be stationed and operated from the site between 5pm and 11pm Monday to Friday and between noon and 11pm on Saturdays and Sundays.
The generator is described as “super-quiet” due to noise-reducing casing and acoustic panelling.
The applicant says the use of the site, for a “limited” number of hours a week, by the mobile takeaway van, along with the coming and going of customers, is unlikely to have an impact on people living nearby within the context of the general activity and background noise at the site
It is within a local centre directly next to housing, student accommodation and other shops and services, and is said to be a highly accessible location to which the vast majority of customers can and will travel by sustainable methods.
The site is directly next to Lower Bristol Road, one of the main traffic routes into the city centre.
The application says that all waste will be removed on a daily basis and disposed of as business waste.
The application also states that the proposed change of use will help to support the establishment of a small business that will employ two to three part-time staff.
Anyone wishing to comment has until 21st August. The planning reference is 24/02906/FUL.
