DENBIGHSHIRE County Council has refused permission for a former showroom to be converted into a restaurant and takeaway due to fears of noise and odours disturbing residents.
Athar Khan applied to Denbighshire’s planning department, seeking permission to convert the redundant Dyffryn Trading Estate Showroom on Rhyl Road, Denbigh.
As part of the plans, the proposed restaurant would have created four jobs, promising to give a minimum of five free meals a day to the poor and homeless as part of a “contributions to the community” scheme.
The takeaway would have been open between 2pm and 10pm daily and promised to “keep noise and disturbance to a minimum” with CCTV and signs deployed at the front of the shop.
But planning officers were not satisfied by the provisions and refused Mr Khan permission by delegated decision.
In a statement published online, they said: “It is the opinion of the local planning authority that as the site lies directly opposite residential properties, the opening of a restaurant/takeaway until 2200 hours each night is considered to give rise to the potential for late night noise and disturbance which would be harmful to the amenity of the occupiers of nearby dwellings.”
The statement added: “It is further noted that the details within the application fail to provide sufficient information in regard to the capability of the proposed use to satisfactorily control the discharge of odours via an appropriate extraction system.”
