Chapter 11 I Placemaking and Managing Development
Hot Food Takeaways / Fast-food Restaurants
Cafés / Restaurants
11.185 The positive contribution of cafés and restaurants and the clusters of such uses to the vitality of the City is recognised. The following shall be considered in assessing applications for cafés/ restaurants: 1. The need to retain, protect and strengthen the vitality and multi-use function of designated centres; 2. The number/frequency of cafés / restaurants in the area; 3. The effect of noise, fumes, hours of operation, and general disturbance on nearby amenities and residents. Full details of any external extractor fans/vents and hours of operation of the development shall form part of a planning application; 4. Traffic implications including adequate and safe delivery areas; 5. Waste storage facilities; 6. Any proposed signage/advertising/lighting shall be suitable and unobtrusive.
11.186 In order to maintain an appropriate mix of uses and protect night-time amenities in a particular area, it is the objective of Cork City Council to prevent new takeaways in inappropriate locations, to prevent an excessive concentration of takeaways and to ensure that the intensity of any proposed takeaway is in keeping with both the scale of the building and the pattern of development in the area. In order to protect residential amenity, fast-food takeaway units will be resisted in predominantly residential areas and only permitted in designated centres and will be subject to the criteria below. The provision of hot food takeaways/fast-food restaurants will be strictly controlled having regard to the following: 1. The need to safeguard the vitality and viability of designated centres in the city and to maintain a suitable mix of retail and other uses. The proliferation or oversupply of takeaways that cause or are likely to cause disturbance or nuisance, detract from amenities or seriously detract from an area generally in terms of use and services mix will not be permitted;
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Cork City Development Plan 2022-2028 I Volume 1
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