City takeaways running without approval see latest planning bid rejected

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The operator of two Stirling takeaways running without approval has had a fresh planning bid rejected.Black Rooster Peri Peri and ChurrosNChill began operating in spring 2021 during lockdown at the former Falcon Bar premises in Borestone Road.Its upstairs neighbours, Don Ritchie and Carol Ann Marshall, who have lived in their Borestone Crescent flat since the 1990s, had complained that they are regularly disturbed by a loud rumbling sound from a large flue and customers shouting in the rear car park as well as cooking smells.Operator Richie Wilmot senior, however, had told the Observer: “We want to make our neighbours’ lives as comfortable as possible, while at the same time our business continuing to trade.”A July 2021 retrospective planning application for the subdivision and change of use from a pub to class three restaurant and takeaway, installation of flue and formation of outdoor seating area (retrospective) and installation of flue was turned down by planners.And a second planning application - submitted in March this year - was rejected at the beginning of this month.In their decision issued on November 2, Stirling Council planners state that the development ‘would have a harmful impact on the reasonable residential amenities of adjacent residential properties at Borestone Crescent, and to the wider local area’.Click here for more news and sport from the Stirling area.It was also pointed out that the scheme does not comply with planning policies, adding: ‘The application is not supported with an odour assessment which demonstrates it is a compatible use - taking account that odours could be sensed at the pedestrian underpass area in the middle of the adjacent Borestone Roundabout, the objection on the grounds of