Planning policy criteria for Class A5 (or "Sui generis") hot food takeaways
Dear Northumberland County Council,
I am a researcher at the University of Essex, working on a National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) funded project investigating the impact of food environments on population health. To assist us with this important research, please can you reply to this request with the following information:
1. If your local authority has planning criteria which determine the acceptability of planning applications for new Class A5 (or "Sui generis") hot food takeaway outlets, contained in an adopted or interim policy or guidance document (such as a Local Plan, Supplementary Planning Document, or Development Management Plan), please can you send us a copy of this document.
Example criteria include traffic and parking considerations, the requirement of a health impact assessment, preventing high concentration of outlets in certain areas, exclusion zones around schools, and restricted opening hours.
2. If your adopted policy or guidance document superseded any previous versions that also contained Class A5 (or "Sui generis") hot food takeaway outlets planning criteria, please also send us the previous editions of this document.
3. If you no longer have an adopted policy or guidance document that contains Class A5 (or "Sui generis") hot food takeaway outlets planning criteria, but these criteria were contained in any superseded documents that are now out-of-date, please send us a copy of these out-of-date documents.
4. If you have never had an adopted policy or guidance document that contained Class A5 (or "Sui generis") hot food takeaway outlets planning criteria, please let us know. In these cases, if there are any current HFT planning policies included in a consultation document/draft Local Plan that has not been adopted yet, please send us a copy of this document and confirm its date of publication.
5. If you have answered YES to questions (1), (2) or (3), please can you confirm the date(s) that the relevant policies actually came into effect and/or stopped being applied, being as exact as possible.
I am making this request under the FOI Act, and will be grateful for your response within 20 working days (that is, by 14th April 2025). Many thanks, in advance, for your help.
Yours faithfully,
Dipanwita Ghatak
FOI and EIR
Our reference: 3519653
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Dear Dipanwita Ghatak,
Thank you for your request for information received on 17 March 2025.
Please find attached our response to your request.
Yours faithfully
Chloe Scott
Planning Services
Northumberland County Council
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