Planning permission granted for drive through restaurant 300 metres from school
Fingal County Council has been accused of breaching the Government’s “no-fry zone” health policy by granting planning permission for a fast food outlet near a primary school in North Dublin.has called on the Ministers for Health and Housing to jointly issue an edict to all local authorities “with proper guidelines advising them of Government policy and that these type of developments are not appropriate”.
Dr Reilly has raised the issue in the Seanad and said that having a fast food restaurant near schools “smacks of the tactics of the tobacco industry in the way the fast-food industry is trying to ‘get them young and keep them for life’. Fingal County Council said it granted the planning permission on March 6th in accordance with planning and development laws.
Restrictions on fast-food outlets near schools need to be “carefully considered on a case by case basis, in view of the mix of existing uses typically found in such central urban areas”. The county council banned fast food outlets within 400 metres of schools but then breached its own rules by granting planning permission for a Chinese takeaway within the exclusion zone. It said it did this because the takeaway opened at 5pm.
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