Smokies has been refused permission to serve food on the car park of The Dunkirk Hall, Leyland. The reasons for refusal are;

The impact on the area around the Grade II-listed Dunkirk Hall building, and with its close proximity to several local schools, it would fail to promote healthy communities.

Our argument for the first reason, Dunkirk being a Grade II listed building, is that the Smokies trailer is a reversible structure. Meaning that we can leave at any time and there is no permanent structure. We have no bright lights, take up only 3 parking spaces. 

The second reason, being close to schools. There are other takeaways within closer proximity to the schools mentioned, not to mention vape shops as well within 100m of the schools. We are only open during school hours on Friday from 2-3pm, all other hours we operate are outside of school hours. We think that it is the parents responsibility to know what their kids are eating at that point, not ours. Also our food is all locally sourced, fresh produce, probably containing more nutritional value than most school dinners.

We think the reasons for refusal are not valid and we will be appealing our case. We have 18 members off staff whose jobs could be at risk if we can’t keep our second location open. We hope the community can get behind us to fight and win this case, the support we have received has been unbelievable. All we ask is for you to sign this petition if you agree that the refusal is unreasonable.

Thank you everyone. 

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