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Takeaway plan for post office
Date published: 04 August 2009
A FORMER post office could become one of Oldham’s remotest takeaways if planners agree.
The former Scouthead Post Office in Huddersfield Road closed last year, part of a cull of six local offices.
If approved, the plan would see the shop, at the junction of Higher Turf Lane, selling curries and kebabs, with a delivery service, from 4pm to midnight every night.
The applicant, Mr Arosh Ali from Shaw, says it will create six jobs.
Parking will be on the street, and planners say the main considerations will be the impact on the green belt, highway safety and the effect on near-by homes.
Comments
unbelievable!!!! yet another take away. in scouthead of all places! what is this town turning in to?
6 jobs for who? local residents or Mr Arosh Ali's family?
not another one that make £10000's with no customers
Stupid place for a takeaway, opposite a bad junctio and nowhere to park. Anyone who objects should write to the planning dept. Mind you, when it gets to committee, they will be ignored like the orb Mill objectors.
The council must stop this in it's tracks. Oldham is infested with these places already. What a horrible mess it will make if it is given the go ahead in such a nice spot.
If Mr Ali's family get jobs at the takeaway they're not local?. If they live in Greater Manchester they're local, get over it!! better still you buy it off him and run a family business for 70 hours a week and employ your family?(brierley...)
Believe it or not some takeaways do run as takeaways not "Launderettes" (keith)
There is no parking available so customers and delivery drivers will just follow the example of the mayor and mayoress outside the New taste chippy in waterhead last week, switch on the hazard lights and park on double yellow lines in the full knowledge the police won't catch them and if they do pass by they'll ignore them. Another stupid application that the planning committee will wave through.
i hope the planners have the sense to refuse this application. enough is enough! (innit)
An important staging post on the 'picturesque' route from Leeds & Bradford to Oldham. Though why anyone would want to travel that route, beats me.
If the planners have any sense, they will turn this silly application down. As most of them will probably live in Saddleworth I expect the 'developer' will find it hard to get his own way.
It is ludicrous to encourage the spread of these establishments in the Borough.
fightback-you have just proven my point: Greater Manchester is not local! Oldham is local, Scouthead is local, there is enough unemployment in this town already, when it was a post office I imagine that the people who worked there were from the immediate vicinity. This take away will have no benefit for local residents unless they fancy a kebab after a night out on a Friday, oh but this wont help either as it shuts at 12...
brierley - There you go proving my point!! you will make sure YOU define local in terms that make sure "certain" people are excluded... dont you fancy buying it then seeing as you are the only one concerned about "local" unemployment?
if i wanted this kind of food in this area (where I live) id go to the restaurant down the road (Essence of Asia), which by the way is not doing very well, the car park fencing looks a mess, there is oil dripping own the gable wall, and half the car park has been sold to develop 4 flats. If that didnt work, how will this?!
"Enough is Enough" what does that mean, care to explain -Broady
"Spread of these establishments" encourages competition, only the good ones will survive, better for customers. How strongly have you studied this "silly" application or was the name of the applicant enough. Pretend its "John Smith" and then come up with a coherent arguement.
Forgive me if i am incorrect but was there not a article in this paper maybe two weeks ago sayng the council are pulling the plug on too many takeaways being open and now here we go again surely we have enough of these types of shops to go from one end of oldham to the other for goodness sake please say no or everyone will be recieving yet another take away menu coming through their front doors
what a surprise - fightback attempts to throw the race card in. If were gonna do some analysis of data like your comment suggests lets ask the local community how many need a take a way so desperatley on their doorstep as they cannot wait for one of the 100 or so that line yorkshire street all the way to hillstores to deliver.
rjsoafc- there are two rational arguments here "fedupoldhamer" and "morgan60", the rest say nothing together with words like "local residents or Mr Alis family" as if its a forgegone conclusion that Mr Alis family is not local, or "spread of these establishments". draws one conclusion.
Do the analysis, then if the residents in the immediate vicinity dont want it thats fine, that's democracy, but dont take a few ramblings from some bigoted people, as the word of locals.
i always thought a business is a business but apparantly not...just wondered why these arguments dont materialise when a public house [pub] is opened. a takeaway is not good at the top of a hill [or anywhere in my town] but a pub is great next door to me! [the closer the better] i'll never understand business or politics!
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i do hope this does not happen. for starters its too far out of the way to attract real business. oldham and the surrounding areas have far too many takeaways already.
and the traffic and parking issue is a major one. there is nowhere to park, and the junction is an arkward one.
now lets see how good ombc's planning dept really are!
By fedupoldhamer @ 04/08/2009 14:16:09