A disused shop in Elwick Road was to be turned into a Fish and Chip shop.
However, planning permission was refused because of Council planners recommendations. Apparently it would ‘undermine efforts to promote healthy lifestyles and have a negative impact on public health’.
So will all traditional fish and chip shops be getting closed down as well?
What about the equally unhealthy options like kebabs and pizzas will they be turned down as well…?
I don’t want town planners to tell me what I can or cannot eat.

McDonalds the very worst food of all takeaways. For those who disagree look up how the potatoes are specially chemicalised then sold as food. Yet the council would bend over backwards to any request they may have.

Talking about fish n chips just been to Verrills for 1st time in years today. The food is superb the portions big but the service is the slowest of any fish shops I have visited. I was the only customer in the shop and ordered two lots of fish n chips. The bloke at the back told me he had everything ready now. I payed the lady and waited and waited and waited until I asked if the food was ready and was told yes we have everything ready. Three woman one man and it took 12 minutes to finally give me my food and even then forgot to put chips in one tray. No reason at all for the extremely slow service other than chit chat about sod all. Never waited this long for someone to put two lots of food in two trays ever. It should have been no longer than one minute.

I regularly go there. The fish & chips are the best in the area imo. TBH I have never had a problem with service. I think they just won't serve it until it's spot on. Don't let that put you off Leggie.

I have had Turbot at the Magie at Whitby today. It was outstanding. Washing in down with real ale now at the many excellent pubs.

Magpie I mean!!

The food is spot on Bluestreak the portions are generous my only problem was the bloke told me everything was ready and I could see the food was ready but extremely slow service followed by the girls although very polite.

It's going to be a long night then Bluestreak

Who approved the myriad of takeaways in York Road then?

Watch out for the Rozzers on the drive back

A hotel waits me with a Domino pizza. This weight watcher diet is great I can recommend it!

i bet if the council people behind the no vote where given the old brown envelope things would be different. council is corrupt an full of whoppers

It's a tenner for a large cod at our local takeaway..You lot must be flush with spare cash.?

When you drive round the town there’s loads of unappealing fast food places I wouldn’t touch with a barge pole….. so are these faceless goons gonna prevent anymore fast food outlets opening and restrict us to take away salad bars because they have set a standard for future fast food outlets…..also, are they medically qualified to sit in judgement on our heating habits….?

Are they even qualified to be a councillors

Without being racist you just need look at the applicants name, Fish and Chip shop solely selling what you would expect in a Fish and Chip shop, I think more likely kebab and chips ?

I was assuming if it says fish and chip shop it would be selling fish and chips.
There is the possibility it could be diversifying into other more ‘exotic’ choices, their name is irrelevant…….but the point remains, can Council officials be allowed to decide what you eat….?
What next, what you read…?

guess The Gaza Takeaway would really get the green light with look north being there on opening day. pissed off with these ameteurs telling me what i should do, eat and the rest of the bollocks they come out with. need a special council watch thread to put down all the crap they come out with across the country. some loons want em to get even more power over us. westminster governments are bad enough but these people are another level. there will be some vegan somewhere pushing all this i,m sure.

you,d be pushed nowadays finding a fish and ship shop that only sold just that. they,ll be forcing those already open to display the amount of calories on each item they sell. next by owning the vic food outlets will become either salad or souci bars just to add to the crap on the pitch.

Sedgefield only has one fish and chip shop and it was run for years by an Asian bloke - for all I know it still is. Was your basic no frills chippie menu - fish'n'chips, fish cakes, sausage in batter for the really adventurous. He was the one in front of the friers but the staff were all locals. I guess he got into it for the same reason Asians run the village post office, the petrol station and the open-all-hours corner shop - he was looking for a small business to make a success of.

Are there any decent Fish and Chip shops run by Asians in Hartlepool Snowy selling the run of the mill stuff Fish and Chip shops sell ? There are countless Asian shops in Hartlepool, Chinese etc, I think he thought he would have a better chance of calling it a Fish and Chip shop rather than a fast food take away place.

The Turbot was only £25.

Spoken like a true trencher man! You always seem to enjoy your grub Blue - something to rely on whatever happens on a Saturday afternoon

anybody counted the number of takeaways there are in the town. we have locally the last time of counting 34 with the same menu,s. surely they cannot all be making a profit as some always seem to be empty. is it an eating version of turkish barbers i wonder.

a rainbow flag outside the place would have swayed them though.

yep 100% - or if the owner was a Trans Vegan who identified them selves as a tree

I refuse to go in anywhere who calls them selves a Fish and chip shop and does kebabs and burgers etc….There’s still plenty of proper fish and chip shops available, the pizza, kebab stuff has no appeal to me because they never taste like pizza’s or Kebabs. That said my fish and chip visits are about four times a year.
As for whatever they sell in it, is of no interest to me, my point is petty officials telling me what I can or can’t eat.

Eating a drinking is the only way to forget about Saturday afternoons.

Went to the Odd Cod on Friday. Normal sized fish already cooked and looked at the price....£9.25. Thought oh well I'm here. Said 2 large fish and chips please....you'll have to wait as they are cooked to order.
When done they were put in 2 long boxes. Got them home and they were huge. Me and our lass had 1 between us. Had the 2nd portion Saturday night warmed up in the Air Fryer and oven.
BTW....delicious.

Didn't they used to be one of those in charge of Oxford Road Chippy

Trust you

Is a woke reason the Council gave the applicant, they couldn’t think of anything else, they could have said too many take aways are causing global warming,

they could have just said that the town had enough take aways anyway and didn,t need another. if that had happened though we,d have less to talk about but they,d have one less reason to knock them. its as if they are looking to wind people up.

Giving that excuse begs the question will they therefore be shutting down all other fast food shops on the town now that is their self appointed standard, you can’t be having double standards now can we.
Then the can open up again as ‘allegedly’ healthy Vegan Turnip Takeaways, or Broccoli and Kale burger drive-thru’s….. eating a bag of fresh rocket ain’t gonna excite you when you are used to chips.
Ever get the feeling the faceless one’s are modelling the world in their own ‘vibrant’ image to save us all.

If it was a McDonalds, KFC, Pizza Hut etc would they have been refused ?

I’d bet money on it not being refused….

i,d like to bet those who make these decisions also use takeaways and as usual it will be a case of do as i say not as i do. instead of the old term of having more faces than the town hall clock it should be more faces than the average town councellor.