Plans to transform former Dumbarton butcher's shop into chippy recommended for refusal

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Plans to transform a former butcher’s shop in to a new chip shop in Dumbarton East have been recommended for refusal by planners.

A planning application was submitted to West Dunbartonshire Council for a change of use for the former Thomas Smith & Son shop in Glasgow Road.

The applicant, Glasgow AP Ltd, wants to change the premises’ use, from a Class 1A, previously held by the butcher shop, to a hot food takeaway selling fish and chips as well as fitting a flue.However, planning officers have recommended that the application be refused, due to a lack of off-street parking for its use as a busy takeaway and officers say that it could result in ‘additional on-street parking demand, obstructive parking and congestion within what is a heavily parked area, to the detriment of road and pedestrian safety’.The application relates to the vacant commercial unit situated on the ground floor of a three-storey tenement-style corner block, located on the southern side of Glasgow Road, at the junction with Wallace Street.The proposals would also see the shopfront changed from blue to white.The application site is located within a Local Centre, as identified in the Local Plan and proposed Local Development Plan 2.

The site is also located within the north-west corner of the Knoxland Conservation Area. Click here for more news and sport from West Dunbartonshire.