Criteria for harmful hot food takeaway impacts

A hot food takeaway will be considered to be harmful to the vitality and viability of a centre if it: • Increases the concentration of hot food takeaway ground floor frontages in a district or local centre to more than 10% of all non-residential ground floor frontages. In centres where the proportion of hot food takeaway ground floor frontages is approaching 10%, consideration will also be given to the impact of the proposal on the character of the area surrounding the application site. Applications will not normally be permitted if the proposal would lead to the proportion of hot food takeaway frontages being more than 10% of all non-residential ground floor frontages in a particular part of the centre concerned. • Creates a cluster of more than two hot food takeaways together. • Reduces the number of units between hot food takeaway clusters to less than two non-hot food takeaway uses.