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How this part of the Local Plan Options Document works
These Development Management policy option pages contain the following sections:
Policy background
- Relevant national policy or regulations
- National or regional trends
- Local situation and needs/li>
- How we have dealt with this issue in the past
- The thinking behind the policy
Policy options for the new Local Plan
We may suggest a variety of approaches:
- Keeping existing policy as it is
- Making small changes
- Replacing the policy with something that is substantially different
- Identifying factors or events which may affect this policy in the future
Policy option analysis
- A list of the advantages and disadvantages that we have identified for each of the policy options we are presenting.
View the Topic Paper on Healthy and Vibrant Communities and the Hot Food Takeaway Evidence Base document for in-depth focus about this topic, and the evidence which informs our policy. Visit our library of Local Plan Options supporting documents to learn more.
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9.298 The national health policy context now sets a clear ambition for taking decisive action for healthy weight. The Planning Practice Guidance for Health and Wellbeing supports the use of planning by local authorities to limit hot food takeaways in Paragraph 004, especially through exclusion zones.
9.299 The evidence paper NEEDS LINK highlights how national and local evidence supports using the Local Plan to restrict hot food takeaways on the basis of proximity to schools and to prevent high concentrations and clustering of hot food takeaways.
9.300 Therefore, in line with the B&NES Joint Health and Wellbeing strategy, it is appropriate to use the local plan to reduce health inequalities.
Option A
Policy restricting hot food takeaways based on their proximity to schools and other places where children gather, as well as the local density of existing hot food takeaways.
Proposed hot food takeaway use will not be allowed with 400m of a school, within 400m of at least 2 existing hot food takeaway uses, if it would cause more than 2 hot food takeaways to be adjacent to each other, or if it would lead to more than 10% of units in a local centre to be in hot food takeaway use.
Advantages of Option A
Clear parameters would make the policy easier to enforce. Aligned with the PPG.
Disadvantages of Option A
Likely to be appealed/lobbied against by industry.
Option B
Similar policy, but proposed hot food takeaways within 400m of a school will be allowed if situated within a designated local centre.
Advantages of Option B
Recognises the function of local centres and the role hot food takeaways can play in increasing footfall, slightly less restrictive so potentially less controversial.
Disadvantages of Option B
The option may be appealed/lobbied against by industry. The option does not reduce exposure to hot food takeaways on school journeys for children and young people attending schools within designated local centres.