FOI request (FOIR-697092119)

Planning policy criteria for Class A5 (or "Sui generis") hot food takeaways

Requested Tue 18 March 2025
Responded Thu 24 April 2025

1. If your local authority has planning criteria which determine the acceptability of planning applications for new Class A5 (or "Sui generis") hot food takeaway outlets, contained in an adopted or interim policy or guidance document (such as a Local Plan, Supplementary Planning Document, or Development Management Plan), please can you send us a copy of this document?

Example criteria include traffic and parking considerations, the requirement of a health impact assessment, preventing high concentration of outlets in certain areas, exclusion zones around schools, and restricted opening hours.

2. If your adopted policy or guidance document superseded any previous versions that also contained Class A5 (or "Sui generis") hot food takeaway outlets planning criteria, please also send us the previous editions of this document.

3. If you no longer have an adopted policy or guidance document that contains Class A5 (or "Sui generis") hot food takeaway outlets planning criteria, but these criteria were contained in any superseded documents that are now out-of-date, please send us a copy of these out-of-date documents.

4. If you have never had an adopted policy or guidance document that contained Class A5 (or "Sui generis") hot food takeaway outlets planning criteria, please let us know. In these cases, if there are any current HFT planning policies included in a consultation document/draft Local Plan that has not been adopted yet, please send us a copy of this document and confirm its date of publication.

5. If you have answered YES to questions (1), (2), or (3), please can you confirm the date(s) that the relevant policies actually came into effect and/or stopped being applied, being as exact as possible.

Response

Please accept my apologies for the delay in responding.

The current adopted Local Plan, as part of the Development Management Plan (adopted 23 September 2015), includes Policy SA4 - Drinking Establishments and Hot Food Takeaways and this can be found in the Plan as part of Part v) Economic Policies. The document is also available on our website to read online or download:https://www.hastings.gov.uk/planning/policy/adoptedlocalplan/dmp/