Traffic and parking impacts of food establishments

Restaurants, cafés and hot food takeaways require regular deliveries to and from their premises, including at times when they are closed. In addition hot food takeaways rely on many short visits from customers whilst they are open; they are often located on busy urban or suburban main roads, and in some instances there can be limited or no car parking outside or in the immediate vicinity of the premises. Customers and delivery drivers may be tempted to indulge in short stay parking of an opportunistic and possibly dangerous nature, for example, near to junctions or within the approaches to pedestrian crossings. Combined with the manoeuvring of vehicles and the additional movements of vehicles stopping at and leaving the premises, the free