Take-away Oldham ‘a shanty town between two rush hours’ — Hibbert

Oldham Town Centre Partnership
Two applications to turn town-centre shops into restaurants were considered “euphemisms for yet more take aways.”

With questions already being raised over the number of late-night fast-food outlets in the town, the applications to turn Genesis Estates and Furniture Gallery, both in Union Street, into restaurants caused Councillor David Hibbert to raise questions over their intentions.

He said: “I hope these applications aren’t just euphemisms for yet more take aways.

“There is nothing wrong with take aways, but too many of them are clustered and are shut all-day long.

“We want people to be going into proper restaurants and cafes during the day.

“We want a bustling town centre, not a shanty town between two rush hours.”