Kebab van application rejected

John Fareham and John Abbott report that the City Council’s Licensing Committee have rejected an application for a street trading licence in a street adjoining the University.

Salmon Grove is not in our ward, but it is nearby, and the University are proposing to increase substantially the number of students actually resident on the campus. It thus follows that, given what we have learnt about the spread of litter from McDonalds on Cottingham Road, there might well have been a risk of takeaway packaging finding its way across Cottingham Road in quantities sufficient to bother local residents. I was therefore delighted to support a motion to reject the application which was passed; even if the kebabs the applicant was proposing to sell had been of the highest possible quality, his vehicle could not have been accommodated easily, or perhaps at all, down a street with heavy parking on one side and double yellow lines down the other.