"The Local Area Plan can promote active and healthier lifestyles by ensuring that.... exposure of children to the promotion of foods that are high in fat, salt or sugar is reduced such as the careful consideration of the appropriateness and or location of fast food outlets in the vicinity of schools and parks."
Additionally, the proposed development has serious concerns regarding traffic congestion, drainage and sewage capacities.
Note: If you wish to make an official objection you must do so in writing to: Planning Section Wicklow County Council, Wicklow Town, Co Wicklow Ref 142043 by 16th Dec 2014 not forgetting your full name and address and a €20 submission cost or online to [email protected] .
Updates
February 12, 2013
Reaching this level of support feels heavy because it confirms how many of us feel about the safety of our children near these schools. It has been a draining road so far but seeing this momentum gives me the resolve to keep pushing against this planning decision.
Reached 100 supporters
February 12, 2013
13 Comments
We do not need one more unhealthy fast food restaurant. Dont we need to work together and show our kids way of better looking after their own health and provide the better options for them, to be an examples. So No to another McDonalds by the schools.
We should take a leaf out of Austrias book. Very few fast food restaurants on their main streets.
Totally against this. Our planning people need to cop on and think about the health of the local children instead of developers profits.
Greystones doesnt need this. Keep the junk food away from the kids.
The traffic around Blacklion is already a nightmare at school drop off times. Why would they add a drive thru to that mix? Madness.
I object on the grounds of ... 1. Wicklow Town Council, their planning office and their town planners, seem to think that public health planning is outside of their area responsibility and instead this is the responsibility parents only. They have abandoned one of the key responsibilities of their public roles. 2. Placing a restaurant like this, with it's strong aromas and smells, within meters of children's class rooms and playing courts/pitches seems to be more than a little cruel and a clear temptation to growing impressionable children. 3. Lidl Supermarkets, as owners of this land, have a responsibility to their existing customer base to do the right thing by their conscience. Not to hide and be media shy. I believe that if your customers and community opinion does not matter to you, then a public boycott of your business in Greystones may help focus the mind?
This is an outrage!
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"The Local Area Plan can promote active and healthier lifestyles by ensuring that.... exposure of children to the promotion of foods that are high in fat, salt or sugar is reduced such as the careful consideration of the appropriateness and or location of fast food outlets in the vicinity of schools and parks."
Additionally, the proposed development has serious concerns regarding traffic congestion, drainage and sewage capacities.
Note: If you wish to make an official objection you must do so in writing to: Planning Section Wicklow County Council, Wicklow Town, Co Wicklow Ref 142043 by 16th Dec 2014 not forgetting your full name and address and a €20 submission cost or online to [email protected] .
Updates
February 12, 2013
Reaching this level of support feels heavy because it confirms how many of us feel about the safety of our children near these schools. It has been a draining road so far but seeing this momentum gives me the resolve to keep pushing against this planning decision.
Reached 100 supporters
February 12, 2013
13 Comments
A ridiculous proposal. Such a poor decision makes you wonder if there is something rotten in the workings of Wicklow County Council.
We do not need one more unhealthy fast food restaurant. Dont we need to work together and show our kids way of better looking after their own health and provide the better options for them, to be an examples. So No to another McDonalds by the schools.
We should take a leaf out of Austrias book. Very few fast food restaurants on their main streets.
Totally against this. Our planning people need to cop on and think about the health of the local children instead of developers profits.
Greystones doesnt need this. Keep the junk food away from the kids.
The traffic around Blacklion is already a nightmare at school drop off times. Why would they add a drive thru to that mix? Madness.
I object on the grounds of ... 1. Wicklow Town Council, their planning office and their town planners, seem to think that public health planning is outside of their area responsibility and instead this is the responsibility parents only. They have abandoned one of the key responsibilities of their public roles. 2. Placing a restaurant like this, with it's strong aromas and smells, within meters of children's class rooms and playing courts/pitches seems to be more than a little cruel and a clear temptation to growing impressionable children. 3. Lidl Supermarkets, as owners of this land, have a responsibility to their existing customer base to do the right thing by their conscience. Not to hide and be media shy. I believe that if your customers and community opinion does not matter to you, then a public boycott of your business in Greystones may help focus the mind?
This is an outrage!
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A ridiculous proposal. Such a poor decision makes you wonder if there is something rotten in the workings of Wicklow County Council.