Anger at restaurant plan
Businesses and homeowners have joined together to fight plans for a new Indian restaurant which they claim will cause traffic chaos if it is given the go-ahead. Businesses and homeowners have joined together to fight plans for a new Indian restaurant which they claim will cause traffic chaos if it is given the go-ahead. Planners at South Staffordshire District Council have yet to make a decision on the plans for the restaurant at the former OBC Insurance building in Walsall Road, Great Wyrley. The restaurant would be open until 10pm at night but people living close to the building say the restaurant will attract too many cars with nowhere for them to park except for a private service road and on the main A34 road. Owners at the nearby Wheatsheaf Pub have also condemned the idea because of the impact they say it will have on people, and that there are too many restaurants in the area already. Read the full story in the Express & Star.
Planners at South Staffordshire District Council have yet to make a decision on the plans for the restaurant at the former OBC Insurance building in Walsall Road, Great Wyrley.
The restaurant would be open until 10pm at night but people living close to the building say the restaurant will attract too many cars with nowhere for them to park except for a private service road and on the main A34 road.
Owners at the nearby Wheatsheaf Pub have also condemned the idea because of the impact they say it will have on people, and that there are too many restaurants in the area already.
Gaye Bowker, aged 36, lives directly opposite the proposed site.
"The restaurant will be between two residential properties and it has got to share its access with one of those properties," she said.
"We used to have two or three cars there a day but with a restaurant there will be more and they will be staying longer. This time last year a similar plan for the same site was refused on highways grounds.
"The Walsall Road is a busy main road and if people start parking on the pavements or into our service road it will be a nightmare. Our objections have nothing to do with it being an Indian restaurant we would be equally against an English restaurant."
Sam Jones, from the Wheatsheaf pub, added: "There is not enough turning room for people so they could end up reversing on to a main road.
"We have parking space but that is for our customers.
"As a pub we try to get on with the community and I do not want to get blamed for any noise.
"There are enough food places there already," he added.
A decision on the plans is expected next month, and members of the public should write to South Staffordshire District Council planners with any views on the application.
