PLANS for a new pizza takeaway have been submitted.

An application proposing the change of use of a property, on Fleet Lane, from a commercial site to a mixed-use hot food takeaway and ice cream/milkshake bar, as well as the installation of a flue extraction system to the side elevation, have been put forward.

It is currently listed as awaiting decision.

The site is located close to the roundabout junction with Derbyshire Hill Road and Waring Avenue.

The design statement says it is currently a vacant commercial property on the ground floor, with a residential apartment above.

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The applicant proposes to retain the first floor apartment, which does not form part of the application, and convert the commercial units into a pizza takeaway and a milkshake/ice cream bar.

It also states the location has been assessed to ensure compliance with local plan requirements for no fast food/takeaway to be within 400m of a school – with the nearest being 477m away.

The local plan document stated that planning permission for a hot food takeaway will only be granted if it would be located within the defined town centre of St Helens or Earlestown, or if located outside the town centre of St Helens or Earlestown, be outside a 400m exclusion zone measured from the boundary of any primary or secondary school or sixth form college.

Meanwhile, where an exclusion zone has a boundary that cuts wholly or partly through the building that is subject to the application or its curtilage, the whole building and its curtilage shall be considered to be within the exclusion zone.

The council’s hot food takeaways supplementary planning document set out further details to guide the location and design of hot food takeaways and also addresses their health impacts.

It identified that obesity is an important health issue that, if developed during childhood and adolescence, can lead to associated health issues during adulthood.