Plans for a fast food restaurant and coffee shop drive-throughs on a former industrial site in Derbyshire have been approved despite concerns about air quality and public health. Councilors argued the venues would meet the needs of shift workers who require quick, readily available meals after long hours.
Plans to build a Derbyshire drive-through fast food restaurant and coffee shop have been approved to give prospective workers “stodge” to fill up on after 12-hour shifts. At an Erewash Borough Council meeting last night councillors approved plans for a fast food restaurant and a coffee shop drive-throughs on the former Stanton Ironworks site off Lows Lane and what will be Exhibition Way.
“It is here to feed the workers and workers need stodge. I am not going to walk to a bistro after a night shift, I want a kebab. Without turning around I can say I don’t believe people in the gallery have ever had to work a night shift.”Tara Brassil, from Risley, said the drive-through plans conflicted with council policies for public health improvement and air quality problems.
Lois Partridge, agent for the applicants, Verdant Regeneration, owners of the New Stanton Park site, set to create 4,000 jobs, said the scheme would provide vital supporting infrastructure. She said Ilkeston was underserved in terms of ultra-rapid electric vehicle charging points , with three in total in the town and one at Junction 25 of the M1.
Two commercial units would also be built as part of the plans, which Ms Partridge said could well become creches, gyms, doctors surgeries as opposed to office or industrial business units. Cllr Ann Mills said the site would be more “sustainable” if the facilities were not drive-through eateries, with New Stanton Park workers still able to walk to the venues.
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