Within Waltham Forest's new Supplementary Planning Document on proximity of hot food take away to schools and parks, it is quite fascinating to see the detail that must be included in creating a new document when considering its role and impact on current and future establishments.Basics like distances from schools and parks need to be defined. (400m according to the document), even this is a huge research task in itself. I would be interested to see the data sets consulted for this decision to be made.
Another document that kick started a government campaign was the 2008 “Healthy Weight, Healthy Lives: A Cross Government Strategy for England” which pushed for healthier living, and better quality school dinners. The campaign hard a hard time. It takes more than planning policy to change the mindsets of both children and adults, and if the need is there why shouldn't takeaways cater for it?
In looking at how the policy defines what is takeaway and what is not, I wonder how small existing takeaways will find holes in the policy so that they only need make small changes to their business to turn it into a cafe or restaurant rather than the banned takeaway?
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